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Autograph; 4 pages; Memorial Card for Joe Alex Morris, Jr. mounted photograph on front with manuscript note inside to Rowland Evans from "Ulla" (Mrs. Joe Alex Morris, Jr.) ( 5.75" x 8.5" single card with four panels) Very Good condition. The manuscript note reads: "Dear Rowly (forgive the spelling) / My reply to your warm and / kind letter comes much too / late - forgive me for that / too -- but things have been rather hectic and chaotic / and the red tape unbelievable. / I am moving to the States / in the summer and I shall / call you once I get there. / Till then, thank you for your thoughtful letter / Best Regards, also to / your wife. / Yours, Ulla" Joe Alex Morris Jr., the veteran Middle East correspondent of the Los Angeles Times was fatally shot on Feb. 10, 1979. He was covering the military mutiny in Tehran that culminated the next day in the fall of Iran s 2,500-year-old monarchy and the triumph of the country s Islamic revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. A 1949 Harvard graduate, he started working in the Middle East in 1950 for United Press before moving on to the New York Herald Tribune, Newsweek and, in 1965, the L.A. Times. He covered the 1956 Suez crisis, the 1967 Six-Day War, for which he won an Overseas Press Club Award, and the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. PROVENANCE: Rowland Evans was a provocative newspaper columnist, commentator and author who antagonized liberal politicians and championed conservative causes. He left Yale and enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 during World War II and was discharged in 1944 because of malaria. In 1963, Mr. Evans and Mr. Novak began writing ''Inside Report,'' an insider's view of politics that was published four times a week until Mr. Evans retired in 1993. Mr. Evans and Robert Novak began their work as columnists in the early 1960's, a time when newspaper columnists wielded outsize influence in national politics. The pair pioneered in transferring that influence to the medium of cable television with the political discussion program ''Evans & Novak'' -- carried on CNN from that cable network's beginning. Rowland Evans and his wife Kay (Katherine Winton Evans), also a respected writer and editor, were mainstays on the Washington social scene, hosting many memorable gatherings in their handsome Georgetown house -- to which flocked influential and remarkable people drawn from journalism, politics and general society over the decades from the 1960s to the 2000s. Both Evans and Novak became more predictably conservative over the years, particularly during the Reagan years. Reportedly, both columnists voted for JFK in 1960 and for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Evans earned a place on Richard Nixon's infamous "Enemies List." Novak reported that Evans had JFK as a guest for the first dinner party the latter attended as President Elect. Kay and Rowland Evans has a particularly close friendship with Robert F. Kennedy, his wife Ethel and their family.; Signed by Author. N° de réf. du vendeur 43651
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