Author Robert Giles and the Eight Lessons of When Truth Mattered
The author presents the lessons every American should learn regarding how to tell what’s true in the news and what is not.
Author Robert Giles speaks to Middle Tennessee State University.
Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center at the university, moderates the discussion with students on Oct. 15, 2020.
Kent State professor interviews Robert Giles and photographer John Filo:
In this Mission Point Press Author Interview, journalism professor Mitch McKenney asks Giles, author of the book When Truth Mattered, and John Filo, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, about their recollections of the Kent State tragedy of May 4, 1970, in which four students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen.
Filo captured the iconic Kent State photograph below on that tragic day.
Robert Giles talks with John Filo about his iconic Kent State photograph:
This video was produced from a conversation at the Freedom Forum’s Media Studies Center in New York City on May 4, 1999.
John Filo was working for CBS-News at the time and Giles was senior vice president of the Freedom Forum and executive director of its Media Studies Center.
Filo describes how he took the Pulitzer Prize-winning image and reveals details of his decision to take his roll of film to his hometown newspaper in New Kensington, Penn, rather than to the darkroom at the Akron Beacon Journal.
In this video, Giles also shows images of the Beacon Journal news pages and describes its prize-winning coverage.
The video is presented with permission, Freedom Forum Institute, 2019. A Video Trailer About the Book