Episode will air in summer 2007
The national PBS series “History Detectives” will sleuth around Albuquerque today to explore another mystery in your backyard. On Monday, Dec. 11, “History Detectives” will be at the Albuquerque Museum to track clues connected to the famous WWII journalist, Ernie Pyle.
Photo: War correspondent Ernie Pyle
They are here to investigate Ernie Pyle’s typewriter.
Eric Warlick of Portland, Ore., thinks he may have a typewriter that belonged to the famous WWII journalist, Ernie Pyle, America’s most beloved battlefront correspondent. Warlick’s grandfather told him he received the vintage “Corona 3” from Major George Pratt.
Pratt served in the Pacific and said that the typewriter belonged to Pyle. A trail-blazing reporter, Pyle was celebrated for telling the stories of “ordinary soldiers” serving in Europe. But when he followed the siren song of the Pacific, he was killed by a Japanese sniper bullet off the coast of Okinawa in April, 1945.
“History Detectives” travel to Albuquerque, Bloomington, Ind. and Portland, Ore., to investigate Pyle’s final moments and to determine whether or not it was Warlick’s typewriter that may have lured him to his doom.
Media Contact: Evy Todd, (505) 277-1218; e-mail: etodd@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at December 11, 2006 09:33 AM