Bishop Tutu addresses Club luncheon in 2004

This Week In National Press Club History

March 19, 2004: South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks at a National Press Club luncheon, one of the many religious leaders who’ve appeared over the years at the Club. Others include Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, in 1935; Christian evangelist the Rev. Billy Graham; Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan; and Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

This Week in National Press Club History is brought to you by the History & Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s history through displays, panel discussions, lectures and the oral history project.

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Compiled by Elizabeth Smith Brownstein, [email protected], with thanks to Art Wiese.