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25 November 2013

COOGAN story

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appearing in an Oral History Interview with Edgar C. "Bud" Faris, 
Jr., Secretary to Senator Harry S. Truman (1935-1938).  Information 
collected in Los Angeles, California, on March 8, 1971, by J. R. 
Fuchs and listed at the Truman Library web-site (PAGE 38 of Oral 
History):

[...]

To tie this in -- I'm rambling an awful lot -- but when I was in
Rockhurst College [Kansas City, MO], there was a friend of mine,
we used to call him -- we both worked on the school paper and
Coogan was the editor, and I always called him "Scoop" Coogan, you
see, because he was always going to get a good story on this guy,
he was always like a real veteran reporter.  

And Scoop Coogan and I became good friends, and Scoop went with
the UP, United Press, and he was in the hallway in Baton Rouge
when Huey Long was assassinated [08 SEP 1935].  Scoop Coogan ran 
to the pay telephone in the hall, called the UP office in New York 
and told them to hold the line open, and he stood there and watched 
and related all that was happening, the shooting.  He scooped the 
whole country on the Huey Long assassination, which is a strange
coincidence, Scoop -- and I had known Huey, you know, had
breakfast with him.  

So you wonder why these overlapping ties come in on things.  From
that scoop that Scoop Coogan got -- his name was J. Allen Coogan --
he became head of the South American Bureau of UP, United Press.

[...]

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/faris.htm
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