Richmond Times-Dispatch

I saw, I was like, "How'd you do that many for a guy so young?"

Yeah, I was an intern at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia.

Okay.

Um, I covered the Washington football team the year that they didn't have a name, before they c- before they com- became the Commanders.

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... they're both top six in Times-Dispatch top 10 poll.

Right.

Um, so I don't think anybody had them ...

In 1901, Tesla would recount the entire event in great detail in an article for Collier's entitled Talking With the Planets.

But I think the event is actually more neatly summed up by a contemporary article that appeared in the Richmond Times summarizing Tesla's revelation.

The Times wrote, quote, "As he sat beside his instrument on the hillside in Colorado, in the deep silence of that austere, inspiring region, where you plant your feet in gold and your head brushes the constellations, as he sat there one evening alone, his attention exquisitely alive at that juncture was arrested by a faint sound from the receiver.

Three fairy taps, one after the other, at a fixed interval.

In the press room this week, we are joined by an all-star panel of journalists from the Virginia Press Corps.

First up is a state government and politics reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Michael March.

Thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

Hey, Michael.

Glad to be here.

Rounding out our all-star panel is the education and politics reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Anna Bryson.

Thanks for joining us.

strip all that away and what's left is a guy who is excited about an upcoming transfer pulled back onto a gun crew he had basically already left behind standing over an under trained kid running a gun loaded with powder was never supposed to fire on a turret with a documented history of hydraulic leaks electrical shorts and at least one recent incident of a gun reportedly firing itself Luckily, not everybody buys the Navy's version, and cracks start showing fast.

A reporter at the Richmond Times Dispatch runs a four-part series laying out the illegal powder experiments, the conflicts of interest running the investigation, and the holes in the case against Clayton, and it goes national.

A daily press team digs even further into the report's problems.

An ABC correspondent writes an op-ed for the New York Times accusing the Navy of scapegoating a dead sailor.

The young man then took up residence in Richmond, got a job as a clerk in a tobacco factory in nearby Manchester, and married a local woman by the name of Alice Perdue.

The pair went on to have four children, and Poole worked as an accountant for the Bryan estate, a prominent Virginia family who owned the Richmond Times Dispatch.

He and Alice both lived long lives, and she passed first on February 6, 1913.

And yes, William laid her to rest at the now infamous mausoleum he had built in Hollywood Cemetery.

That was Doug Walder appearing on C-SPAN, December 20th, 1989, the month before he was elected Virginia governor.

35 years later, in 2024, Andrew Cain wrote this in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

As we say in the news biz, L. Douglas Walder has been good copy for more than five decades.

We agree.

To get nine satisfactory reels, between 20 and 30 were ruined, sometimes in the last few seconds when the actors muffled their lines or action.

Now here's John Dahl being quoted in the Richmond Times Dispatch.

And so here's Dahl talking about the use of champagne.

In rehearsal, we had used ginger ale, and I had gulped it down in one swallow.

I was always all about the subject and everything that I've done.

And as a matter of fact, everything that I've done, I think everything that I've done, certainly all the books and even the articles that I published back in the Topeka newspaper or in the Richmond Times Dispatch were always... diaries of it was always a reflection of my own life in every single thing yeah well sarkowski's mirrors and windows john sarkowski curator of modern art wrote a book called mirrors and windows and that got me too i mean i was a teenager by the time i got a hold of that book and his theory was that the best photographers Some photographers looked out the window and some photographers were internal.

Some photographers were Diane Arbus or Cindy Sherman and other photographers were classic documentary photographers looking out at the world, not involved.

But he said the best ones were some combination where they were looking in the