Joe Morgenstern Recalls His Contributions to 1966 Newsweek Cover Story
On this #tbt, a monumental and super-fun 50th anniversary Newsweek package.
Not long after Joe Morgenstern joined Newsweek as a film critic, he was enlisted to help research a March 21, 1966 issue cover story about American teenagers. In this week’s very fun 50th anniversary look-back at the issue and where the main participants wound up all these years later, there is also an article for which key contributors were interviewed.
Photographer Julian Wasser explains how he found California cover girl and future actress Jan Smithers (Bailey Quarters in WKRP in Cincinnati); reporter David Morberg retraces his interview process; and Morgenstern plows back into an ancient slice of data journalism:
“I went through this couple of days thinking, ‘My god, what have I gotten myself into?!’ Those were the days of far-flung bureaus with reporting just pouring in, and much of it very good and vivid.
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