Thursday, June 20, 2013

What stories of the Press Register can you share?

One corner of The Mobile Press Register in the days before computers.
From left: Mignon Kilday, Gordon Tatum and Sylvia Hart

I wrote two columns for The Mobile Press Register as part of its 200th anniversary series titled “We Were There.”

In the first, I recalled the afternoon of June 30, 1981, when I encountered a hostage situation in the office of then-Mobile Mayor Robert Doyle, who was being held at gunpoint by a former policeman. I agreed to talk to the disgruntled man and became a hostage myself. You can read the story here.

The second column focuses on colorful newsroom personalities of the past century. Read it here.

Do you have a story you would like to share?

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