Collection of celebrity letters relive Pearl Harbor news :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation

Collection of celebrity letters relive Pearl Harbor news :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation

This is a very cool story about an 83 year old veteran named Clifford Barrett who spent many years collecting a very specific autograph collection. Looking for more than just autographs, Barrett wrote a fairly random group of celebrities to find out what they were doing when they heard the news about the attack on Pearl Harbor. Barrett heard back from a wide group of Americans including Arnold Palmer, William F. Buckley, Jr., Lyndon Johnson, George H. W. Bush, Walter Cronkite and numerous others in his 66 letter collection. Reading different people's responses to the same event shows, among other things, how we all can think differently about the same historical event. It is a very interesting project with very cool results.