Don’t Cancel That Newspaper Subscription - The New York Times
Don’t Cancel That Newspaper Subscription - The New York Times Don’t Cancel That Newspaper Subscription - The New York Times Posted: 29 Jun 2020 07:54 AM PDT NASHVILLE — In 1954, a man called the city desk of The Tennessean, Nashville's daily morning newspaper, to say he planned to take his own life by jumping from the Shelby Avenue Bridge. If the paper wanted the story, he said, they should send a reporter. At the scene, a young journalist named John Seigenthaler spent 40 minutes talking with the man, who was sitting astride a gas pipe that ran beneath the bridge's railing. When the man turned to look at the water below, Mr. Seigenthaler, one leg anchored in the bridge's grillwork, reached down, grabbed him by the collar and held on till nearby police officers could haul him to safety. Today the historic bridge, which spans the Cumberland River, is known as the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge in honor of the journalist wh...
