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The George C. Marshall Foundation will host Molly Guptill Manning, associate professor of law at New York Law School, for a lecture about Marshall’s revitalization of unit-based troop journalists in World War II.
Her talk will be held at the Marshall Foundation building on Thursday, Oct. 12, at 5:30 p.m. A book signing and reception will follow the lecture. Copies of Manning’s new book, “The War of Words,” will be available for purchase.
The event is part of the Marshall Foundation’s ongoing Legacy Lecture series. It is free to the public, but reservations are required. As part of the Marshall Foundation’s ongoing efforts to expand the reach of their programming to a global audience, the presentation will also be livestreamed on its YouTube channel (https://bit. ly/2Or0E8D) simultaneously. A recording of the lecture will be available to view free online immediately after the event.
In the talk, Manning will discuss how Army Chief of Staff George Marshall revitalized the Army’s tradition of unit-based newspapers with the distribution of field kits of printing gear, , on which the mostly novice journalists cranked out their news sheets. At a time when the press around the world was censored (even American newspapers were corralled by the U.S. government into a voluntary program of “self-regulation”), troop journalists on the Western front counterpunched against Nazi propaganda and kept soldiers well-informed.
To learn more about the Marshall Foundation, its website can be accessed at www.marshallfoundation.org.
