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Hickman, Don - Interview and Memoir

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Don Hickman, former WICS Springfield News Channel 20 anchor, recalls his childhood in Tennessee, adolescent years, introduction to broadcasting via radio, switch to television and many of the events he covered during his career: the Civil Rights Movement, the JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations, and the Vietnam War. Hickman also recalls his move to Springfield in 1972 and the cultural, economic, and political changes that have taken pl...
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Cramer, Andy [interviewer]
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© Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this material, please contact: Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza, MS BRK 140, Springfield IL 62703-5407. Phone: (217) 206-6520. http://library.uis.edu/archives/index.html
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Keywords

  1. Assassination
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Journalism
  4. Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (President, U.S., 1961 1963)
  5. King, Martin Luther
  6. Radio Broadcasting, Coleman
  7. Social Life
  8. Springfield (Ill.)
  9. Television
  10. Tennessee
  11. Wics (Television Station)

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