Knap
Knap is a surname, and may refer to: * Josef Knap (1900–1973), Czech writer, poet and literary critic * Ted Knap (21st century), American journalist * Tony Knap Anthony Joseph Knap (December 8, 1914 – September 24, 2011) was an American football coach. He was the head coach at Utah State University (1963–1966), Boise State University (1968–1975), and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1976–19 ...

Josef Knap
Josef Knap (28 July 1900 – 13 December 1973) was a Czechs, Czech writer, poet and literary critic. Born in Podůlší near Jičín, Knap studied at the Classical Grammar school until 1919. He graduated from the College of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague, Charles University in Prague in 1924, with a degree in modern literature. During World War I and World War II, he traveled throughout Europe visiting countries including Germany, Sweden, Norway, Italy and France. From 1925 he worked in the theater department of the National Museum (Prague), National Museum of Czechoslovakia. He stayed there until 1951, eventually becoming the museum's administrator. His time there was interrupted by the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, which he spent in Arbeitsansatz. Because of theology, theological themes in his work, Knap became a victims of the political persecution of Catholic intellectuals by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Communist government in the 1950s. In 1952, he ...
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Ted Knap
Thaddeus L. Knap (born May 19, 1920) is an American journalist. Knap was chief political writer and White House correspondent for Scripps Howard News Service. He covered five presidents, five presidential campaigns, and fourteen national political conventions (not counting the 1936 Democratic convention in Chicago that he covered for his high school newspaper). He went to Vietnam with Johnson, to Moscow with Nixon, to China with Ford, around the world with Carter, to Europe and the Vatican with Reagan and on July 24, 1969 witnessed, from the deck of the USS Hornet, the Pacific splashdown of the first astronauts to step on the moon. Also, Knap had breakfast with Princess Grace in Monaco, lunch with Shirley Temple Black in Washington, drinks with Shirley MacLaine in New Hampshire while covering the 1968 presidential primaries, chatted with Elizabeth Taylor backstage at a Gridiron Club dinner (she was married to Sen. John Warner of Virginia at the time), spoke Polish with Pope J ...
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