James Kenneth McManus, popularly known as Jim McKay, was born on September 14, 1921 in Philadelphia. When growing up, McKay grew a huge passion for sports, starting with horses. His love for horse racing is what led him to eventually pursue a career in journalism. When he was thirteen McKay moved with his family to Baltimore, where he would grow up and later graduate college at Loyola College, class of 1943. McKay began his career as the editor of the Loyola College school newspaper, The Greyhound. His professionalism and sincerity is what led the School of Journalism College President Brian Linnane to consider McKay “one of the few individuals who represented the values and ideals of this institution.” (Kramer, “McManus, James Kenneth (Jim McKay)”)
In 1943, McKay graduated Loyola College in the heat of World War II and enlisted into the Navy. He served the military from 1943 to 1946 and quickly raised the ranks to become captain of a minesweeper mission escorting convoys from Trinidad to Brazil. Upon completing his tour, the Baltimore Sun offered McKay a job as a police reporter, which eventually led to his career as a sport broadcaster and sportswriter when the company shifted him to their television division.
In 1950, McKay moved from Baltimore to New York to host a local 90-minute variety show for CBS. The executive producers of the show wanted him to change his name from James McManus to what he is now referred to as, Jim McKay, in order to coincide with the shows title, “The Real McKay.” Over the next decade, he pursued other ventures for WCBC-TV and CBS network as a weatherman, a public-affairs moderator, a game show host and a sportscaster. As a sportscaster, he covered the Masters golf tournament, Ivy League college footb...
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Giving way to the parties and the fun associated with college kids, Caputo failed out of college and realized what he really wanted to be was a Marine. He joined the Marines and went through a lot of officer training until he eventually reached what would be known as his final rank of Lieutenant. Introduced to the Vietnam War in 1965 as a Platoon leader, Caputo walked into the war a little scared but with a lot of determination. Caputo started the war with a lot of field work including jungle expeditions and shooting escapades, and eventually was sent to keep track of the everyday deaths occurring during the war and all the paperwork associated with such a job. Later he was put back in charge of a platoon which eventually lead to his downfall following an unethical order he gave his men that resulted in the killing of a couple Vietnamese pedestrians believed to be part of the Viet Cong.
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He was then drafted into the U.S. Army where he was refused admission to the Officer Candidate School. He fought this until he was finally accepted and graduated as a first lieutenant. He was in the Army from 1941 until 1944 and was stationed in Kansas and Fort Hood, Texas. While stationed in Kansas he worked with a boxer named Joe Louis in order to fight unfair treatment towards African-Americans in the military and when training in Fort Hood, Texas he refused to go to the back of the public bus and was court-martialed for insubordination. Because of this he never made it to Europe with his unit and in 1944 he received an honorable discharge.
John Alexander Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland on January 11, 1815. His family immigrated to Canada (Kingston, Ontario) in 1820, Macdonald was five years old at the time. In 1829 Macdonald ended his schooling, his parents could not afford to send him to university. Macdonald would later say that if he had went to university he would have ended up in literature, not politics. (Waite, John, 7-10)
Jim was an unbelievable athlete and just an overall great person. He silenced many racist people and also set many records at the same time. He was given respect he earned it through everything he did throughout his lifetime. He is the greatest athlete who ever lived and could be the greatest athlete who ever will live. Jim was the greatest athlete of the twentieth century so if you ever think about who the greatest athlete of the twentieth century was you will know the answer.
His college years took place during the height of the Vietnam War, which he personally supported. Subsequently, he joined the United States Army Reserve Officer Training Corps, but unfortunately his military career was short-lived due to his poor eyesight. After graduating in 1969 with a b...
The Broadcast world has seen many iconic figures come into the spectrum. Baseball had Bob Costas, Basketball has had many former players come and go into the roles of key broadcaster but none of them could compare to this one man who would bring his natural talents of his voice and ability to communicate what was truly going on in a game like John Madden. John Madden had the background as a former player and coach that would give him an outlook on the game of football that no one has ever had. John was a incredibly easy person to listen to because he did not sound like some of the announcers of the time who only went by the books on how broadcasting was suppose to be presented. John Madden tested the limits of broadcasting to bring a view of the game that no one has ever presented to the NFL fans.
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After the war he returned to Smith College before moving to Cornell University in 1949. He retired in 1972 from Cornell University.
...for equal rights. In some poems McKay even called for violent acts to change the laws, however, as an educated man, reason prevailed. As result he adopted religion, and his poetry, like himself became conflicted. Out of this confliction came some of the most powerful African American poetry in history. Claude McKay poured his soul onto to paper, and as a result, it seeps in to all who read it.
Lawrence was a very well educated man, but he did not have the best education until he was in college. He started college at Virginia Union University, an all-black school, where in 1951 he received a degree in chemistry and in science. After graduating he started working as a toxicologist in the medical examiner's office. In 1952, he was drafted into the army and served in the Korean War where he earned the Bronze Star for heroism in combat for ...
John A. Macdonald became well known for the way he treated people. He was kind
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I always watched the man behind the video booth, playing with new angles for the cameras and watching the two monitors. As someone who enjoys movies and photography, I believed it would be fun sitting behind the monitors and recording the church service. My church records every 11:00 am church service which can be purchased if a service was missed. It took a bit of training before I was ready to record the video by myself.
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