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| Item ID | Egyptian19611017controversial.tif |
| Title | Controversial Reporter to Speak |
| Author | Daily Egyptian |
| Description | Controversial journalist William Worthy will be the guest speaker at Thursday's convocation. |
| Original Publication Source | Daily Egyptian |
| Date | 1961 October 17 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Page(s) | 2 |
| Digital File Format | .TIF (Tagged Image Format) |
| Digital File Publisher | Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
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| Collection | University Archives: Daily Egyptian Diversity Articles Index |
| Transcript | Controversial Reporter to Speak
Controversial journalist William Worthy will be the guest speaker at Thursday's convocation.
Following a speech in Springfield, Mo., in which he delivered some favorable comments on Fidel Castro, and socialism, St Benedict's College of Atchison, Kansas, cancelled a speech he was to have made there.
"The Latin American Volcano: Where Will It Explode?" will be Mr. Worthy's topic.
As a reporter for the Baltimore Afro-American, he travelled to China without a passport. He was
also in pre-revolutionary Cuba in 1957.
Mr. Worthy has served as a television aid to Robert Drew's "Yanqui, No! program, lauded by critics as a brilliant innovation in technique.
The convocation wilt be held at 11 a.m. and 1 p. m.
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