This Week in National Press Club History

November 8, 1979: Folk singer and activist Joan Baez speaks at a Club luncheon about Cambodian genocide and the desperate conditions in refugee camps across the Thai border. Singer-activists Harry Belafonte and John Denver are among the many other performers who come to the Club to address human rights, world hunger and other pressing global issues.

November 8, 2000: Sandra Brown, whose best-selling romances and thrillers have been published in thirty-four languages, greets fans and signs books at the National Press Club Book Fair. The following year, non-fiction author and journalist Laurence Leamer signs copies of the second book in his trilogy on the Kennedy family, The Kennedy Men. Johnny Carson, country music, and the cocaine trade are subjects of some of his other books. The thirty-sixth Book Fair is on November 16 this year.

This Week In National Press Club History is brought to you by the History & Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s century-old history through lobby displays, events, panel discussions and its oral history project, which now contains over two hundred interviews with NPC movers and shakers.

For more infotmation on the Committee, or to join it, contact Gilbert Klein at [email protected].