The Unsung Hero(es)

His Pen Was Mightier Than His Sword: The impact of journalism in keeping us informed of how our government functions

With this project, I hope to communicate the importance that journalism holds in providing information to the public, even when the information is not well-received. From the surface-level research I have already done (scrounging through Ancestry.com), was very keen on keeping the public informed of state politics. During this time (the 1930s-1940s from my best estimation) he also remained steadfast in his belief that the United States should aid Britain in World War II before the United States even entered the war. 

Newspaper Course at Florida State University,
Photo courtesy of Florida Memory, PR07645
John Kilgore is in the front row, 4th man from the left.

Through this project, my goal is to learn more about members of my family that my immediate family doesn't know much about. For instance, when I asked my father and uncle if they remembered their uncle (my great-uncle John), both said "no." My grandfather hadn't told them anything about their uncle. Granted, their great-uncle had died before either of them had been born, but their father lived until the 1970s, and still, they knew very little about the man who had once written for the Tallahassee Democrat and the Miami Herald.

Kilgore Award, Tallahassee Democrat
written 03/23/1980; accessed 02/18/23

My biggest concern would be both creating a timeline that I hoped to stick with, finding the primary sources (aside from pictures and the snippets of newspaper clippings that I have found), and compiling it concisely. Any information I find will be wholly new to me, so attempting to properly situate this information into a cohesive website might prove to be difficult.