|
|
| (2 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) |
| Line 1: |
Line 1: |
| − | {{person
| + | #REDIRECT[[Barry Bingham]] |
| − | |wikipedia=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Bingham_Sr.
| |
| − | |description=Kentucky media owner who attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1950s. Ran the [[Marshall Plan]] in [[France]] in 1949.
| |
| − | |alma_mater=Harvard University
| |
| − | |nationality=US
| |
| − | |image=George Barry Bingham.gif
| |
| − | |political_parties=Democratic Party (United States)
| |
| − | |birth_date=February 10, 1906
| |
| − | |birth_place=
| |
| − | |death_date=August 15, 1988
| |
| − | |death_place=
| |
| − | |constitutes=businessman
| |
| − | }}
| |
| − | '''George Barry Bingham Sr.''' was the patriarch of a family that dominated local media in Louisville, Kentucky for several decades in the 20th century. In 1949 he began a year's service as chief of the [[Marshall Plan]] in [[France]]<ref name=Latimes>https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-15-mn-454-story.html</ref>. He attended the [[Bilderberg/1954|1954]], [[Bilderberg/1955 September|1955]] and [[Bilderberg/1956|1956]] Bilderberg meetings.
| |
| − | | |
| − | ==Family and career==
| |
| − | Bingham's family owned a cluster of influential media properties – ''[[The Courier-Journal]]'' and ''[[The Louisville Times]]'' [[newspaper]]s, plus [[WHAS (AM)|WHAS Radio]] and [[WHAS-TV|WHAS Television]]. The papers had been purchased by his father, Col. [[Robert Worth Bingham]], using proceeds from an inheritance left by his second wife, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler, herself the widow of railroad magnate [[Henry Morrison Flagler|Henry Flagler]].
| |
| − | | |
| − | Bingham attended [[Harvard University]], then went into the family businesses. In 1931, he married Mary Caperton, a [[Radcliffe College|Radcliffe]] graduate. Bingham Sr. took the reins of the company in 1937; his elder brother Robert Worth Bingham Jr was considered incapable of taking control of the family business because of his alcoholism, and settled in England, where he married.<ref>Robert Worth Bingham and the Southern Mystique, William Elliot Ellis, The Kent State University Press, 1997, pg 101</ref> At the time, "The C-J" was little more than a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] organ, but Bingham built it into national prominence, thanks to reporting that was ambitious in scope for a newspaper in a city of Louisville's size.
| |
| − | | |
| − | Throughout Bingham's tenure, the editorial voices of the ''C-J & Times'' was forthrightly [[American modern liberalism|liberal]], especially for a fairly [[Social conservatism|conservative]] (though predominantly Democratic at the time) state like [[Kentucky]]. The newspapers were recipients of six [[Pulitzer Prize]]s, including one for public service in 1967, plus multiple other awards during the Bingham years. ''The Courier-Journal'' became the commonwealth's dominant newspaper, a position it retains to this day. He also founded [[WHAS-TV]], the city's second [[television]] station, and founded the [[WHAS Crusade for Children]], a [[telethon]] broadcast on both the radio and television stations that today collects more than $6,000,000 each year for local children's charities. The family also owned Standard Gravure, a [[rotogravure]] printing company that printed the newspapers' Sunday magazine section, plus Sunday sections for other newspapers.
| |
| − | | |
| − | In [[World War II]], Bingham served as an officer in the [[United States Navy]], and was twice awarded the [[Bronze Star Medal|Bronze Star]]. Bingham Sr. was given the rank of Commandeur, Légion d'honneur, by [[France|French]] government for service. In 1950, he was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref name=AAAS>https://web.archive.org/web/20110725002054/http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf</ref> After the war he made study missions to Europe to report on occupation conditions. He was a Fulbright lecturer at [[Oxford University]] in 1955.
| |
| − | | |
| − | On July 7, 1951, Bingham, along with [[Jane Darwell]], was a guest on the [[CBS]] [[Variety show|variety]] [[television series]], ''[[Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town]]'', when the program hosted Louisville and its music heritage.<ref>http://ctva.biz/US/MusicVariety/FayeEmersonsWonderfulTown.htm</ref>
| |
| − | | |
| − | He was an aristocratic intimate of British royalty and political luminaries such as [[Adlai E. Stevenson]] and [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref name=Latimes/>
| |
| − | | |
| − | In 1971, Bingham stepped down from day-to-day operations and handed over the operations of the company to his remaining son, [[Barry Bingham Jr.]] Bingham Sr. died on August 15, 1988, at age 82. Bingham Jr. died on April 3, 2006.
| |
| − | | |
| − | ==Further reading==
| |
| − | *Chandler, David Leon with Mary Voelz Chandler (1987). The Binghams of Louisville: The Dark History Behind One of America's Great Fortunes. Crown. ISBN 0-517-56895-0.
| |
| − | *Brenner, Marie (1988). House of Dreams: The Bingham Family of Louisville. Random House. ISBN 0-394-55831-6.
| |
| − | *Bingham, Sallie (1989). Passion and Prejudice: A Family Memoir. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-55851-0.
| |
| − | *Tifft, Susan E. and Alex S. Jones (1991). The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty. Summit Books. ISBN 0-671-79707-7.
| |
| − | | |
| − | ==External links==
| |
| − | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070323071459/http://www.uky.edu/CommInfoStudies/JAT/HallofFame/halloffame/bingham1981.htm "University of Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame bio of Barry Bingham Sr. (1981)"].
| |
| − | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070405070436/http://archives.cjr.org/year/91/4/bingham.asp Columbia Journalism Review: The Bingham Saga".]
| |
| − | | |
| − | {{SMWDocs}}
| |
| − | ==References==
| |
| − | {{reflist}}
| |
