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NPR’s Juan Williams to speak Oct. 5
BOWLING GREEN, O.— Juan Williams, National Public Radio senior correspondent and one of America’s leading journalists, will
speak Tuesday, Oct. 5, at Bowling Green State University.
As the 2004 Currier Visiting Lecturer, Williams will offer “An Insider’s View from Washington: Thoughts on the 2004 Election”
at 7:30 p.m. in 202B Bowen-Thompson Student Union. A book signing and reception will follow the lecture, which is free and
open to the public. The journalist’s latest book, published in May, is “My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil
Rights Experience.”
From 2000-01, Williams hosted NPR’s call-in show, “Talk of the Nation.” He took the program to cities across America for monthly
radio “town hall” meetings before live audiences. The program was part of “The Changing Face of America,” a yearlong series
about how Americans were dealing with rapid changes in society and culture entering the 21st century. The series aired on
“Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered,” as well as on “Talk of the Nation.”
Williams also is a regular political analyst on the FOX News Channel’s public affairs program, “FOX News Sunday with Tony
Snow.” He also has appeared on FOX’s popular weeknight show, “The O’Reilly Factor.”
In addition, Williams has been seen on “Nightline,”“Washington Week in Review,”“The Oprah Winfrey Show,”“Capitol Gang Sunday”
and CNN’s “Crossfire,” where he frequently has been a co-host. He won an Emmy Award for television documentary writing and
received critical acclaim for a series of documentaries including “Politics—The New Black Power.”
Williams is the author of the critically acclaimed biography, “Thurgood Marshall--American Revolutionary,” which was released
in paperback in 2000. He is also the author of the non-fiction bestseller “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years,
1954-1965.”
During his more than 20 years at The Washington Post, Williams served as an editorial writer, columnist, and White House reporter.
He also has written numerous articles for Newsweek, Fortune, The Atlantic Monthly, Ebony, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, and The New
Republic.
Williams earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy at Haverford College in 1976. He now sits on Haverford’s board of trustees
as well as on the boards of the Aspen Institute of Communications and Society Program, the Washington Journalism Center and
the New York Civil Rights Coalition.
The Currier Visiting Lectures Series at BGSU is made possible by an endowed gift from the estate of Florence and Jesse Currier,
who came to the University in 1940. Jesse Currier was responsible for a full-fledged journalism program being established
at the University, and Florence Currier served as dean of women from 1949 until her retirement in 1963.
(Posted September 28, 2004 )
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