Release date: Oct. 15, 2004
Contact: Elaine Justice, Associate Director, University Media Relations,
at 404-727-0643 or elaine.justice@emory.edu

New York Times' Linda Greenhouse to Speak at Emory

WHO: Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times

WHAT: "Court, Country and Culture: The Supreme Court in a Divided America," third annual Foster C. Beck Distinguished Lecture in Journalism and the Law

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27

WHERE: Tull Auditorium, Emory University School of Law, 1301 Clifton Rd., Atlanta

INFO: Admission is free, but reservations are requested by calling 404-712-8455.

Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, will speak on "Court, Country and Culture: The Supreme Court in a Divided America," at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27 at Emory University School of Law's Tull Auditorium, 1301 Clifton Rd., Atlanta.

Admission is free, but reservations are requested by calling 404-712-8455. A reception will follow Greenhouse's talk.

In addition to delivering the Foster C. Beck Distinguished Lecture in Journalism and the Law. Greenhouse will be meeting with Emory students and faculty as a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar in observance of the 75th anniversary of Emory's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

One of the nation's premier legal observers, Greenhouse has covered the highest court for the Times since 1978. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in journalism in 1998. In addition to her print journalism duties, Greenhouse appears regularly on the PBS program "Washington Week."

In 2002, the American Law Institute made her an honorary member and awarded her its Henry J. Friendly medal for contributions to the law.

Greenhouse is the third distinguished speaker in a lecture series established by the Journalism Program in 2003. The lectures honor Joseph M. Beck, a member of the journalism and law faculties at Emory. Beck requested that the lecture be named in honor of his late father, Foster C. Beck, a prominent Alabama attorney who in 1938 defended Charles White, an African-American man wrongfully accused of raping a Caucasian woman. The case, rejected by many other lawyers, occurred nearly 25 years before similar events were depicted in Harper Lee's novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird." Beck considered the lower court conviction by an all-white male jury unjust and fought for its reversal by the Alabama Supreme Court. The effort failed, however, and White was executed in 1939.

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