Sam Litzinger
Sam Litzinger has been a journalist for nearly 50 years. He has a master's degree in comparative philosophy.
He talks and listens.
Betty White once thanked him for working with animals.
Email: sam@samlitzinger.com
Mastodon: @samlitzinger@journa.host
BLUESKY: @samlitzinger
Sam's Sounds
"Celebrating a Century of Sound"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-radios-a-century-of-sound/
Sound Sessions from Smithsonian Folkways
https://folkways.si.edu/sound-sessions-radio-series-folkways/music/article/smithsonian
"Talking Animals"
https://player.fm/series/talking-animals-88666
Compliment Machine
https://soundcloud.com/user-56559296/compliment-machine
D-Day, June 6, 1944, with CBS Correspondent Richard C. Hottelet
https://soundcloud.com/user-56559296/d-day-special-with-richard-c-hottelet
Link to some of Hottelet's papers on the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/richardchottelet1944to1948
B.B. King with Sam Litzinger June 2000
https://soundcloud.com/user-56559296/bb-king-with-sam-litzinger-june-2000
Poet Stanley Kunitz obituary
https://soundcloud.com/user-56559296/stanley-kunitz-obit
John Irving interview
https://soundcloud.com/user-56559296/john-irving-interview
John Hope Franklin interview
https://soundcloud.com/user-56559296/john-hope-franklin
Michael Chabon interview
https://soundcloud.com/user-56559296/michael-chabon-interview
Michael Ondaatje interview
https://soundcloud.com/user-56559296/michael-ondaatje-interview
A story about Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, the "Murrow Boy" who wasn't a boy
https://www.press.org/newsroom/clubcbs-series-highlights-murrow-girl-among-boys
Items of INTEREST
Samuel Beckett
I like to think I saw him a long time ago, walking alone in the Louvre. I was going to say something, but then thought, "What do you to say to Samuel Beckett?"
Nothing.
Which I'm sure he would have appreciated.
Charles Wilson Peale
I love museums and cabinets of curiosities. I'd love to see what Peale had behind that curtain.
This is Frank Buckles. He was the last surviving doughboy of WWI. I had the honor of interviewing him years ago. He died in 2011 at the age of 110.
David Hume is one of my favorite philosophers, in large part because he died well. James Boswell said, on his deathbed, Hume was "‘placid and even cheerful … talking of different matters with a tranquility of mind and a clearness of head which few men possess at any time.’"
We should all be so lucky.
Listen to Thelonious Monk's music. It will do you good.
Same for Miles Davis's music.
Adopt an animal. It will do both of you good.
