Kansas City Star
The paper says columnist E. Thomas McClanahan “misstated a newsroom scene at the Dallas UPI bureau” in 1975, and that his although the column said “many” cheered in the bureau, “at that time of the evening the staff would have dwindled to only a handful.”
> Earlier: Ex-UPI staffer says columnist defamed the news org (Letters)
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KC Star corrects column claiming UPIers cheered Saigon’s fall
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