NewsBusters
Jack Coleman
May 22, 2018
Worth adding to the well-deserved praise accorded New Journalism pioneer Tom Wolfe since his death last week is an incident when he was a cub reporter still in his 20s who stood up to -- and prevailed -- against an ambitious senator elected president only two years later.
Wolfe was working as a general-assignment reporter in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1958 after finishing his dissertation in American studies at Yale when Senator John F. Kennedy came to the small city an hour west of Boston and spoke before two dozen of Springfield business owners and the mayor.
High on their list of concerns was the distinct possibility that the federal government might close the local armory, a major manufacturer of rifles for the US military.
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https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jack-coleman/2018/05/21/when-senator-jfk-tried-get-young-reporter-named-tom-wolfe-fired
