This year marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the Vietnam War, and
the Newseum marks the date with a new exhibit exploring how the media
reported the country’s first televised war. Photos, news footage, historic
newspapers and magazines, music, and artifacts tell the story of a divided
nation, and debunk some myths about the era. Nebraska writer Beverly Deepe
Keever, author of the 2015 One Book One Nebraska: Death Zones & Darling Spies:
Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting is featured in one of the lead panels in
this exhibit in Washington, DC. Keever, who was born and raised in Hebron, NE,
was the longest-serving American correspondent covering the Vietnam War and
earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for reporting.
Set to a soundtrack of protest songs, the exhibit opens with an exploration
of the culture clash that emerged in the 1960s as seen through mainstream
and counterculture publications of the day. "Reporting Vietnam" challenges
perceptions that linger fifty years after U.S. troops arrived in Vietnam,
and poses the question "Did the press lose the war?" Find out more about
the exhibit at
http://www.newseum.org/exhibits/current/reporting-vietnam/.
The Nebraska Center for the Book, Humanities Nebraska, Nebraska Library Commission,
and other statewide organizations sponsor One Book One Nebraska to demonstrate how
books and reading connect people across time and place. For information about One
Book One Nebraska, see
http://onebook.nebraska.gov/2015/index.aspx or join us on
Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/OneBookOneNebraska.
The Nebraska Center for the Book is housed at the Nebraska Library Commission and
brings together the state’s readers, writers, booksellers, librarians, publishers,
printers, educators, and scholars to build the community of the book, supporting
programs to celebrate and stimulate public interest in books, reading, and the
written word. The Nebraska Center for the Book is supported by the Nebraska
Library Commission. As the state library agency, the Nebraska Library Commission
is an advocate for the library and information needs of all Nebraskans.
The mission of the Library Commission is statewide promotion, development,
and coordination of library and information services—bringing together people and information.
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Commission are always available on the Library Commission Website,
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/publications/newsreleases.