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Greg Mitchell is the author of more than a dozen books (see link) and now writer/director of three award-winning films aired via PBS, including “Atomic Cover-up” and “Memorial Day Massacre” which are still up at PBS.org. You can still subscribe to this newsletter for free. Just decided to post a little something after the Monday afternoon holiday shocker, the death of basketball (and much else) legend Bill Walton, at 71, from cancer.

If you’ve ever searched for a Father’s Day gift, you’ve likely come across t-shirts or mugs with a very specific kind of slogan splashed across them:  Princess Protection Agency I have a daughter. I also have a gun, a shovel, and an alibi. Husband, Daddy, Protector, Hero In the two years since Roe’s demise, I’ve thought often about the men who wear these kinds of t-shirts—the fathers who joke about beating up their daughter’s dates, the husbands who declare they’d never let anyone disrespect their wives.

Please tap the {{heart}} button, which helps new readers find All Predictions Wrong. In 1957, Dwight Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to ensure the safety of the Little Rock Nine, first African Americans to enroll at Arkansas’s famed Central High School. The school was desegregated, with violence avoided. But city fathers weren’t amused. They began work on an urban highway that would bisect Little Rock along its west-east axis, with the mainly black neighborhoods of the south side physically separated from affluent mainly white neighborhoods – and the state capitol building – to the north.

Today’s story, which is the first part in a series I’m working on about WNYC, asks a simple question: why did New York Radio hire Andrew Golis to be its (extremely well-paid) Chief Content Officer? It also explains what piqued my interest in writing about the station in the first place. Before we get started, I’ve got a real-time update, related to my reporting: in less than a month, four reporters have quit the WNYC newsroom, at least one of them citing mental health reasons.