12-28-12: Remembering Dudley Clendinen

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This segment originally aired on January 30, 2012.

For more than a year, Tom Hall talked with the writer and journalist Dudley Clendinen, a former national correspondent and editorial writer for the New York Times and the author of four books. Dudley was diagnosed with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Dudley died in May.  Today, we listen again to their last on-air conversation, in which Dudley talks about what the interviews meant to him, and his thoughts on the past–he says, to quote Ogden Nash, he “wouldn’t have missed it.”

You can listen to all of our conversations with Dudley Clendinen at this link.