Turner Catledge

[1] After retiring in 1968, he served briefly on the board of The New York Times company as a vice president.

Catledge's first news job was at fourteen years old for the Neshoba Democrat, setting type.

Clayton Rand, the publisher of the Times (a newspaper aligned with the interests of white planters), ran a series of stories denouncing the Ku Klux Klan; under intense pressure from local merchants, Rand sold the newspaper to another publisher, putting Catledge out of work.

In the winter of 1941, he left the New York Times to become chief correspondent and later Editor-in-Chief of the Chicago Sun.

[7] To TURNER CATLEDGE, gentleman journalist, who nightly played his role faultlessly, whose behavior before, during, and after each performance was exemplary—and whose good humour and graciousness are deeply appreciated.