Journalist Albert Merriman Smith

Albert Merriman Smith

Living place: Savannah

Birthday: 10-2-1913 (111 years old)

Population of US 1913: 97,225,000

Global rank: #90952

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Who is Journalist Albert Merriman Smith?
Albert Merriman Smith is a well-known journalist and reporter who won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. He was the journalist who first reported on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
 
 

Young / Before famous

Smith entered the White House in 1940. After the United States entered World War II, he was appointed as one of the telegraph reporters to accompany the president on all his travels. . For security reasons, at the end of each trip, he had to submit an information report on those trips
On April 12, 1945, in the city of Warm Springs in Georgia all the first documents President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death was released.
In 1964, he won the Pulitzer Prize for providing his arguments for the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. It can be said that he was the first person to publicly use the term "grass mound" in connection with this assassination.
Smith received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Lyndon Johnson in 1967.
During the 1960s, Smith was a frequent guest on television interviews hosted by Jack Paar and Merv Griffin.
Near the end of the novel "Seven Days in May" by Fletcher KNEBEL and Charles W. Bailey II, Smith is disguised as a White House reporter nicknamed "Smitty." - Ngan River

Family life info

Depressed by the death of his son during the Vietnam War, Smith died at his home in Washington, Distric of Columbia after shooting himself. Although he never served in the military, his grave is located next to his son's and located at Arlington National Cemetery by special permission of the Commander-in-Chief of Washington's Military District.

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He presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom to President Lyndon Johnson in 1967.

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When was Journalist Albert Merriman Smith born?
Albert Merriman Smith birthday 10-2-1913 (at the age of 111).
Where is Journalist Albert Merriman Smith's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Albert Merriman Smith was born in Savannah, Georgia- United States. Mr, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Ox. Albert Merriman Smith's global rank is 90952 and whose rank is 554 in list of famous Journalist. Population of US in 1913 is about 97,225,000 persons.
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Events in 1913 and 10-2

Events in US in the birth year of Albert Merriman Smith

  • Garment workers strike in New York and Boston; win pay raises and reduced hours. Background: Labor Unions
  • Sixteenth Amendment (income tax) and 17th (popular election of U.S. senators) adopted. Background: Amendments to the Constitution
  • Bill creating U.S. Federal Reserve System becomes law.
  • Woodrow Wilson becomes 28th U.S. President.
  • Armory Show in New York introduces Americans to European modern art as well as the American Ashcan School.

Birthday Albert Merriman Smith (10-2) in history

  • Day 10-2 year 1763: The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the French and Indian War. France ceded Canada and all North American territories east of Mississippi to Great Britain.
  • Day 10-2 year 1837: Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was killed in a duel.
  • Day 10-2 year 1840: Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.
  • Day 10-2 year 1942: Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
  • Day 10-2 year 1962: The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
  • Day 10-2 year 1967: The 25th Amendment was ratified, establishing presidential succession.
  • Day 10-2 year 1996: IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in the first game of their match.
  • Day 10-2 year 2005: Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller died.
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