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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 6h

On this day in 1919 President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke that left him unfit for the duties of his office. Wilson’s VP, Thomas Marshall, was left in the lurch. rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-he...

A Heartbeat Away: Thomas Marshall and Woodrow Wilson’s Illness

J. Fred Essary, the Washington correspondent for the Baltimore Sun , found himself confronted with a delicate assignment in the fall of 191...

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 8h

"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation." Graham Greene, born on this day in 1904

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 8h

The first "Peanuts" comic strip was published on this day in 1950. Good grief!

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 8h

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake." Wallace Stevens, born on this day in 1879

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I will be one of the Hoosier writers at the Local Author Fair for the @indianahumanities.bsky.social's Proof literary fest from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3. The author fair will be at Herron High School, 110 E. 16th St., Indianapolis. I will be selling advance copies of my new Wallace Terry bio.

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Bruce Rosenstein @brucerosenstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Many thanks, @rboomhower.bsky.social for sharing my new blog about our interview about your fascinating #book 'Wallace Terry: A Reporter’s Journey from Selma to Saigon to Bloods'

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Answered some questions from @brucerosenstein.bsky.social about my biography of groundbreaking journalist Wallace Terry, set for release Oct. 6 from the @unmpress.bsky.social. brucerosenstein.com/three-questi...

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“If he is alive, or dead or captured, I have to know. I owe him that.” One of the most remarkable incidents in journalist Wallace Terry's life happened in Saigon just after the Tet Offensive. One of the bravest things I've heard a reporter undertaking. rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2026/02/wall...

Wallace Terry, Zalin Grant, and a Mission to Cholon

Viet Cong rockets and mortars shattered Saigon’s peace early in the morning of May 5, 1968. The renewed fighting led Wallace Terry , a Time ...

Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject." E. B. White, who died on this day in 1985 www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4...

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E. B. White, The Art of the Essay No. 1

“People are like animals and the city is full of people in strange plumage.”

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress.” Daniel J. Boorstin, born on this day in 1914

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children.” Jimmy Carter, born on this day in 1924

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love.” Tim O'Brien, born on this day in 1946

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Finally figured out Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt's confusion. He was thinking of Kris Kristofferson and his role as John "Hawk" Hawkins in Alan Rudolph's 1985 noirish film "Trouble in Mind." Did not know he shared my love of the movie. Will wonders never cease.

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Want to learn more about a great journalist? If you are in DC, stop by the John Brademas Center at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, for the launch of my biography about Wallace Terry, published by the @unmpress.bsky.social. events.nyu.edu/event/401720...

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My conversation about my biography about journalist Wallace Terry. Set for release Oct. 6. New Season Begins Today judydavidson436181.substack.com/p/new-season...

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New Season Begins Today

Ray Boomhower’s new biography of journalist Wallace Terry

Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring." W. S. Merwin

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here” W. S. Merwin

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On this date in 1955 Hoosier actor James Dean was killed in a car accident. He was twenty-four years old. Live fast, die young, leave behind a good looking corpse.

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.” Truman Capote, born on this day in 1924

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree." W. S. Merwin, born on this day in 1927

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Me In Honey 2005

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's always exciting to have a new book about to be published. My only regret for my Wallace Terry bio from the @unmpress.bsky.social, set for release Oct. 6, is that Terry's widow Janice (RIP), a wonderful lady, won't be here to see it. She proved to be indispensable as I worked on the book.

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Copy still available for the correct answer. Hint: It was a religious group.

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Since there's only a week until the official release of my biography about pioneering Black journalist Wallace Terry, time for a giveaway. Comp copy to the first person to name the controversial group Terry went undercover to write about while working for the @washingtonpost.com.

Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another excellent interview. Lots of great stuff for anyone wanting to be a writer. Caution: It isn't easy, as Mr. Dolin notes.

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nice write up of my new biography about groundbreaking journalist Wallace Terry in the latest issue of "Literary License," the newsletter for members of the Society of Midland Authors.

Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“There is a point in working for the principles of Robert Kennedy, but no Robert Kennedy.” On this day in 1968, John Bartlow Martin arrives in Washington, DC, to begin work as a speechwriter for Hubert Humphrey’s presidential campaign rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-...

"The Politics of Joy": John Bartlow Martin and Hubert Humphrey's 1968 Presidential Campaign

In late August 1968 John Bartlow Martin , a former Indiana newspaperman, freelance writer for national magazines, and speechwriter for a num...

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“We have no destiny assigned us: Nothing is certain but the body; we plan To better ourselves; the hospitals alone remind us Of the equality of man.” W. H. Auden, who died on this day in 1973

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“The writer must hew the phantom rock.” Carson McCullers, who died on this day in 1967

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I went to where the action was because I felt that’s the only way I could fully tell the story." Wallace Terry (8 days until official release of my Terry bio from the @unmpress.bsky.social). rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2024/05/wall...

Wallace Terry, the Vietnam War, and "Bloods"

Wallace H. Terry Jr., who served as deputy bureau chief for Time magazine in Saigon, had amassed an impressive record as a journalist. Hired...

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina." Althea Gibson, who died on this day in 2003

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” Herman Melville, who died on this day in 1891

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Really looking forward to reading @civilwarmemory.bsky.social’s new book. Got my copy today.

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot--things are not as they seem." Jim Thompson, born on this day in 1906

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.” T. S. Eliot

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.” George Santayana

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.” Walter Benjamin, who died on this day in 1940

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“One of us hit him in the engine and he went down. Naturally, I think it was my shooting that did it.” War correspondent Richard Tregaskis on this day in 1942 rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2022/09/leav...

Leaving Guadalcanal: Richard Tregaskis in Action

It was the shirtless navigator on the B-17 Flying Fortress, the tanned Lieutenant Clinton W. Benjamin of Noxan, Pennsylvania, who was too bu...

Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.” T. S. Eliot

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"To covet truth is a very distinguished passion." George Santayana, who died on this day in 1952