Hickman, Don - Interview and Memoir
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- 2001
- Description
Don Hickman, former WICS Springfield News Channel 20 anchor, recalls his childhood in Tennessee, adolescent years, introduction to broadcasting via radio, switch to television and many of the events he covered during his career: the Civil Rights Movement, the JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations, and the Vietnam War. Hickman also recalls his move to Springfield in 1972 and the cultural, economic, and political changes that have taken pl...
- Creator
Hickman, Don b. 1937
- Contributing Institution
- University of Illinois at Springfield
- Subjects
- Civil Rights
Journalism
Journalism-- Television
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (President, U.S., 1961-1963)--Assassination
King, Martin Luther
Radio Broadcasting, Coleman
Springfield (Ill.)--Social Life
Springfield (Ill.)--Television
Television
Tennessee
WICS (television station) - Language
- English
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- © Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this material, please contact: Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza, MS BRK 140, Springfield IL 62703-5407. Phone: (217) 206-6520. http://library.uis.edu/archives/index.html
- Chicago citation style
- Hickman, Don b. 1937. Hickman, Don - Interview and Memoir. 2001. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/uis/id/2400. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- Hickman, Don b. 1937, (2001) Hickman, Don - Interview and Memoir. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/uis/id/2400
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- Hickman, Don b. 1937. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/uis/id/2400>.