Reminiscences of Jack Rosenthal : oral history, 2005.

Biographical Note

President, The New York Times Company Foundation.

Scope and Contents

Background: born Tel Aviv, Israel, childhood immigration to Portland, Oregon; education: B.A. Harvard University; career: newspaper editor; special assistant to Attorneys General Robert F. Kennedy and Nicholas D. Katzenbach 1961-1967; fellow, Harvard Institute of Politics 1967-68; writer The Kerner Commission 1967; urban affairs correspondent Life Magazine 1968-1969; correspondent and editor The New York Times and New York Times Magazine 1969-2000; Pulitzer Prize,1982; president The New York Times Company Foundation 2000-present; 9/11: account of stalled subway, Times Square crowd; New York Times 9/11 Neediest Fund discretionary grant program: school support, legal issues, treatment for trauma, discussion of grant recipients; donations as revenge, reflections on media treatment of philanthropy; relationships with writers and philanthropists.

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Marshall Clark, Mary, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Rosenthal, Jacob, 1935-2017--Interviews.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

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