[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 40 (Wednesday, March 7, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E273]
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                     ON THE LIFE OF ANGUS McEACHRAN

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                            HON. STEVE COHEN

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, March 7, 2018

  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Angus 
McEachran, the editor of The Commercial Appeal, the daily newspaper of 
my hometown of Memphis. McEachran died Monday at 78. Known as a rough 
and tough, no-nonsense newspaperman, McEachran started off as a copy 
boy at the Memphis newspaper and presided over two of its signature 
stories as Metro Editor--the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, 
Jr. in 1968 and the death of Elvis Presley in 1977.
  Over the years, he nurtured the careers of hundreds of reporters, 
editors and photographers and opened opportunities for African 
Americans and other minorities while broadening the scope of the 
newspaper's reporting to more accurately reflect the whole community. 
After Memphis, he was executive editor, then editor, at The Birmingham 
Press Herald before moving on to become editor of The Pittsburgh Press 
where the newspaper won back-to-back-Pulitzer Prizes for investigative 
journalism in 1986 and 1987. Returning to his hometown of Memphis as 
editor and president of The Commercial Appeal in 1993, he added a third 
Pulitzer.
  Mr. McEachran retired in 2002 having worked his entire career in the 
Scripps Howard chain of newspapers. I extend my condolences to his 
family and friends across the country.

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