Hal Wingo on Vietnam, Lindbergh, Creating 'People' & Father-Son Super Bowls

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Trey's dad Hal joins the show to talk about his amazing life as a journalist and magazine executive. Hal details how he risked everything to go to New York in pursuit of a job in media, his unlikely start as a reporter for "Life" magazine, his procurement of the Zapruder Film of John F. Kennedy's assassination, a harrowing experience covering the murder of three Civil Rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi where Hal was threatened, living in Hong Kong and covering the Vietnam War, the origins of how he was a founder of People Magazine, a choice encounter with Charles Lindbergh, going to Dallas Cowboys Super Bowls with Trey.

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