EPISODE · Dec 1, 2021 · 1H 32M
Strange UFO Events Ralph Blumenthal
from Forbidden Realms Late Night Show With Gary · host Night Dreams Talk Radio
Ralph Blumenthal, a Distinguished Lecturer at Baruch College of the City University of NewYork, was an award-winning reporter for The New York Times from 1964 to 2009, and haswritten and co-authored seven books on organized crime and cultural history. He co-authored therecent series of groundbreaking Times articles on the secret Pentagon program to investigateUFOs. He led the Times metro team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage ofthe 1993 truck-bombing of the World Trade Center. In 2001, Blumenthal was named a Fellow ofthe John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to research the progressive career and penalreforms of Warden Lewis E. Lawes, “the man who made Sing Sing sing.” The book on WardenLawes, “Miracle at Sing Sing,” was published by St. Martin’s in June, 2004. His most recentbook is “The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack,”published by High Road Books of the University of New Mexico Press.For more than 45 years, Blumenthal reported for The Times as Texas correspondent andSouthwest Bureau Chief ; arts and culture news reporter; investigative and crime reporter;foreign correspondent in West Germany, South Vietnam, and Cambodia; and metro andWestchester correspondent. He began his journalism career as reporter/columnist for The GrandPrairie Daily News Texan in 1963.Blumenthal earned a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Columbia University Graduate School ofJournalism Alumni Award, and the Nieman Foundation’s Worth Bingham Prize fordistinguished investigative reporting on USAir crashes. Since 2010 he has taught journalism inthe summer program of Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., and was named aDistinguished Lecturer at Baruch College where he taught journalism and currently overseeshistoric collections in the Newman Library Archives. He lives in New York City with his wife,Deborah, a children’s book writer and novelist.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/forbidden-realms-late-night-show-with-gary--2788432/support.
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Ralph Blumenthal, a Distinguished Lecturer at Baruch College of the City University of NewYork, was an award-winning reporter for The New York Times from 1964 to 2009, and haswritten and co-authored seven books on organized crime and cultural history. He co-authored therecent series of groundbreaking Times articles on the secret Pentagon program to investigateUFOs. He led the Times metro team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage ofthe 1993 truck-bombing of the World Trade Center. In 2001, Blumenthal was named a Fellow ofthe John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to research the progressive career and penalreforms of Warden Lewis E. Lawes, “the man who made Sing Sing sing.” The book on WardenLawes, “Miracle at Sing Sing,” was published by St. Martin’s in June, 2004. His most recentbook is “The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack,”published by High Road Books of the University of New Mexico Press.For more than 45 years, Blumenthal reported for The Times as Texas correspondent andSouthwest Bureau Chief ; arts and culture news reporter; investigative and crime reporter;foreign correspondent in West Germany, South Vietnam, and Cambodia; and metro andWestchester correspondent. He began his journalism career as reporter/columnist for The GrandPrairie Daily News Texan in 1963.Blumenthal earned a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Columbia University Graduate School ofJournalism Alumni Award, and the Nieman Foundation’s Worth Bingham Prize fordistinguished investigative reporting on USAir crashes. Since 2010 he has taught journalism inthe summer program of Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., and was named aDistinguished Lecturer at Baruch College where he taught journalism and currently overseeshistoric collections in the Newman Library Archives. He lives in New York City with his wife,Deborah, a children’s book writer and novelist.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/forbidden-realms-late-night-show-with-gary--2788432/support.
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