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Keyes Beech
Keyes Beech (1913-1990) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, best known for his reporting on World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Biography A native of Pulaski, Tennessee, Keyes Beech got his first job on the ''Chicago Daily News'' as a courier. He left this position in 1936 to become a reporter for the ''St. Petersburg Evening Independent.'' A year later, the journalist joined the ''Akron Beacon Journal.'' During World War II, Beech served in the United States Marine Corps in Asia as a combat correspondent. He was with the 2nd Marine Division at the Battle of Tarawa and was one of the first journalists at the top of Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. At the end of World War II, he worked as a Washington, D.C., Washington correspondent for the ''Honolulu Star-Bulletin.'' He joined the staff of the ''Chicago Daily News'' in 1947. One of his assignments in that period was reporting on Asian affairs. In 1951, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulaski, Tennessee
Pulaski is a city in and the county seat of Giles County, which is located on the central-southern border of Tennessee, United States. The population was 8,397 at the 2020 census. It was named after Casimir Pulaski, a noted Polish-born soldier on the patriots side in the American Revolutionary War. During the Civil War, after the Union took control of Tennessee in 1862, thousands of African Americans left plantations and farms to join their lines for refuge. The Army set up a contraband camp in Pulaski to help house the freedmen and their families, feed them, and put them to work. In addition, education classes were started. Shortly after the war ended, in late 1865, Pulaski was the site of Confederate veterans organizing the first chapter of what became known as the Ku Klux Klan, a secret, white supremacist group. Union troops continued to occupy much of the state until 1870. The KKK members often attacked staff of the Freedmen's Bureau, established during the Reconstruction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
