An Unlikely Friendship; Senator Pat McCarran and Reno Evening Gazette Editor Joe McDonald

I researched the University of Nevada, Reno’s Special Archives to find the story of Nevada Senator Pat McCarran and Reno Evening Gazette Editor Joe McDonald. In looking through years of personal letters, I found that McCarran was no stranger to giving the Gazette editor a piece of his mind, but when tragedy struck the McDonald family, during World War 2, he came to their aid.

I worked on this video as a student for a media history class at the Reynolds School of Journalism. My partner, Christine Barnhouse, did the voicing.