{"id":2216,"date":"2012-12-11T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2014-12-24T05:31:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T05:31:38","slug":"pittsburgh-courier-correspondent-frank-e-bolden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/12\/11\/pittsburgh-courier-correspondent-frank-e-bolden\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Courier correspondent Frank E. Bolden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Circa 1940s:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>This photograph of Pittsburgh journalist Frank E. Bolden shows him during the prime of his career.<\/p>\n

He traveled the world as a World War II correspondent. In 1944, he wrote about brave black soldiers of the 92nd Infantry Division in Italy, debunking the claim that African-Americans would flee from combat.<\/p>\n

Next, it was on to the China-Burma-India theater to document the black engineering troops who built an airstrip and gave their lives in the construction of the Burma Road.<\/p>\n

Later, Mr. Bolden interviewed Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Madam and General Chiang Kai-shek, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.<\/p>\n

After the war, Mr. Bolden returned to The Pittsburgh Courier, turning down job offers from The New York Times and Life Magazine.\u00a0The Pittsburgh Courier, he said, had made him.<\/p>\n

In the early 1960s, when The Pittsburgh Courier ran into financial trouble, Mr. Bolden worked for The New York Times and later for NBC-TV\u2019s \u201cHuntley-Brinkley Report.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the Republican National Convention of 1964, Mr. Bolden tipped a black bell hop to lead him to Barry Goldwater\u2019s hotel room. He interviewed Mr. Goldwater while sitting on the edge of a bathtub.<\/p>\n

A gifted reporter and raconteur, Mr. Bolden died at age 90 in 2003.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This photograph of Pittsburgh journalist Frank E. Bolden shows him during the prime of his career.<\/p>\n

Look at the picturesPittsburgh Courier correspondent Frank E. 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