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Before discussing integrity and media ethics at the CT Forum in May 1999, moderator Rita Braver, left,
senior correspondent for CBS News, hosts press conference with Walter Cronkite, CBS broadcasting
legend; Benjamin Bradlee, president-at-large of The Washington Post and the man who led the Post's
coverage of the Watergate scandal; and Michael McCurry, former White House press secretary for
President Clinton.
Read to Grow in Hartford welcomed actor and best-selling author Alan Alda to its
fundraising luncheon. Read to Grow is a statewide nonprofit organization started
by Citizens Bank that educates parents about the key role they play in their
child's language and literacy development. Pictured, from left, are: Rich Barry,
president, Citizen's Bank Connecticut; and Alan Alda, actor and author.
Enjoying the reception following a performance of Almost Like Being In
Love – The Lerner & Lowe Songbook, are from left, Edward Fisher, execu-
tive vice president and director of private banking at Bank Boston; enter-
tainer Diahann Carroll, who performed; and Ronna Reynolds, managing
director of The Bushnell. The Nov. 14, 1998, show was the second of Bank
Boston's Showcase at The Bushnell series. (Contributed photo)
The CT Tourism Council announces a $300,000 donation to filmmaker Ken Burns and his company,
Florentine Films, for the making of a documentary on the life of author and Hartford resident Mark
Twain. Pictured at the board of directors' announcement in December of 1998 at the Mark Twain
House are, from left, Ed Dumbroskas, executive director, state Office of Tourism; Burns; Patricia
Rowland, honorary chair of CT Tourism Council; and John Boyer, executive director of Mark Twain
House. (Contributed photo)
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