This Week In National Press Club History

June 11, 1927: The National Press Club holds a reception in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce auditorium for Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, then the most famous man in the world, less than a month after his celebrated solo trans-Atlantic flight.

June 11, 2001: Historian David McCullough, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, and numerous other honors, discusses his epic biography of John Adams at a National Press Club book rap.

June 13, 1971: The New York Times begins publishing a series of articles based on the Pentagon Papers, a government study of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, setting off a constitutional battle over freedom of the press. At a National Press Club luncheon later that year, Neil Sheehan receives the Drew Pearson Award for investigative journalism for breaking the story.

June 13, 2001: Clarence Page, Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune, participates in a Young Members Committee roundtable discussion.

June 14, 1968: Ralph Abernathy, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s successor as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, in an appearance just nine weeks after King’s assassination, discusses the ongoing Poor People’s Campaign, the tent city on the National Mall he helped organized to focus attention on poverty and economic justice.

This Week In National Press Club History is brought to you by the History & Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s hundred-plus-year-old history through constantly changing lobby displays, events, panel discussions, and an ongoing oral history project.

To learn more about the Committee, or to join it, contact Chair Gilbert Klein at [email protected].