More clips TK, I hope. I am working (slowly) to get my some of my pre-internet bylined stories digitized. You’ll find “AIDS in the Heartland” (Pulitzer 1988) and “Trail of Tears” (Pulitzer finalist 1986) on their own subpages. For now, three other stories posted below, all done on a tight (one-day) deadline.

• These are two stories done on a very tight deadline. CarCrash Spano Clips
  • The first (CarCrash) was done entirely by phone. It was based on an AP brief about a fatal car crash that happened on Christmas night. A man was killed at the scene, his wife trapped in their inverted truck. The two children, ages 11 and 9, had to work together to get help.
  • The second (Spano) is an exclusive interview with a man whose wife and youngest daughter were killed when a natural gas pipeline exploded and sent fireballs through their suburban neighborhood. The father and an older daughter were safe because of a single difference: They raced out of their house through a different door.

• LittlestRefugees is a one-day piece written after a grueling trip up into the mountains on the border of Iraq and Turkey, where Kurds had fled from Saddam’s army in the wake of the Gulf War. The story is both an elegy and an homage to the children.