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Jim Lehrer
Jan 2009 · Audio Holdings · Narrated by Jim Lehrer
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Moments before he is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, Oklahoma Governor Buffalo Joe Hayman falls ill. Life is never the same for lieutenant governor One-Eyed Mack who steps in to deliver the speech that concludes with an appeal for the return of the state's missing mummy. Suddenly Mack's name is being passed around as a possible vice-president. This is a comic, clever, fast-paced satire of politics told and read by one of this county's best known commentators.
Moments before he is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, Oklahoma Governor Buffalo Joe Hayman falls ill. Life is never the same for lieutenant governor One-Eyed Mack who steps in to deliver the speech that concludes with an appeal for the return of the ...
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James Charles Lehrer was born in Wichita, Kan., on May 19, 1934, to Harry Lehrer, who ran a small bus line and Lois (Chapman) Lehrer, a teacher. He earned an associate degree from Victoria College in Texas in 1954 and a bachelor¿s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1956. From 1959 to 1961, Mr. Lehrer was a reporter for The Dallas Morning News. He joined the rival Dallas Times Herald, where over nine years he was a reporter, columnist and city editor. He also began writing fiction. His first novel was Viva Max! (1966). In 1970, Mr. Lehrer joined KERA-TV, the Dallas public broadcasting station, where he delivered a nightly newscast. In 1972, he became PBS¿s coordinator of public affairs programming in Washington. In 1973 he joined WETA-TV in Washington, became a PBS correspondent and met Mr. MacNeil, a Canadian who had reported for NBC-TV and the BBC. Mr. Lehrer won numerous Emmys, a George Foster Peabody Award and a National Humanities Medal. He and Mr. MacNeil were inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 1999. His memoirs were: We Were Dreamers(1975), A Bus of My Own(1992) and Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates (2011). His plays were Chili Queen (1986), a farce about a media circus at a hostage situation; Church Key Charlie Blue (1988), a dark comedy on a bar flare-up over a televised football game; The Will and Bart Show (1992), about two cabinet officials who loathe each other; and Bell (2013), a one-man show about Alexander Graham Bell. James Lehrer passed away on Thursday 01/23/2020 at the age of 85.
James Charles Lehrer was born in Wichita, Kan., on May 19, 1934, to Harry Lehrer, who ran a small bus line and Lois (Chapman) Lehrer, a teacher. He earned an associate degree from Victoria College in Texas in 1954 and a bachelor¿s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1956. From...
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