WNYC's talk radio master Leonard Lopate interviewed Linda about FORGOTTEN: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes. Lenny was extremely interested in the barrage balloons flown over Omaha and Utah Beaches. Click HERE to hear the interview.
Pollard Memorial Library features FORGOTTEN
Thanks to the crowd in Lowell, Mass. -- Linda's hometown -- who turned out for her talk at Pollard Memorial Library! And many thanks to events coordinator Sean Thibodeau for setting it up!
First Massachsetts event: Porter Square Books
Ruth Edmonds Hill asked Linda to sign a copy of FORGOTTEN.
A fantastic crowd turned out for FORGOTTEN's first Black History Month event in the States. Many thanks to Sara and the staff at Porter Square Books in Cambridge for inviting Linda to speak about the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, Jim Crow America and so many other issues.
Black History Month kick-off at the American Library in Paris
Paris Soirées welcomes FORGOTTEN
A Paris audience got a preview Sunday night of Linda's upcoming Black History Month tour.
Many thanks to founder Patricia LaPlante-Collins for inviting Linda to discuss the issues and men of FORGOTTEN.
For more information on Patricia's Expat Soirées and dinners, click HERE or see her Facebook page HERE.
NPR's Here & Now features FORGOTTEN
The men of the HQ battery of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion pose in France, July 1944.
Thanks to NPR's Here & Now, recorded at WBUR in Boston, for inviting Linda Hervieux on the show to talk about FORGOTTEN: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, At Home and At War. They also published an excerpt from the book. Read it here.
Al Sharpton interviews Linda on MSNBC's PoliticsNation
Al Sharpton interviewed Linda Hervieux at MSNBC's studios in Rockefeller Center.
Should D'Day's hero medic, Waverly Woodson, receive the Medal of Honor? That was question Al Sharpton explored on his MSNBC show PoliticsNation. Woodson, dubbed the invasion's No. 1 hero by the black press, was nominated for the nation's highest honor, though he never received it. His widow, Joann Woodson, eloquently made the case to Sharpton about her husband's heroism. Linda's Hervieux's book FORGOTTEN: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, At Home and At War, makes the case for Woodson to posthumously receive this important award. See the interview here.
Standing room only at UMass Lowell
Pictured above with Linda is her oldest friend, Celine Cote Gettings (right), and Celine's family, left to right, Nicole Clay, Francine Clay and Marcel Cote. Thanks to Celine for this photo.
So many friends and family turned out for Linda Hervieux's talk at the River Hawk Shop at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Linda is a native of Lowell and her first job was for the local newspaper, The Sun, which featured FORGOTTEN on page 1. Read the story here.
So many first cousins on the Hervieux side of the family. Here we are. Some of us, anyway. Thanks to second cousin Beth Pelton for this photo.
Here's Linda with her 93-year-old mother, Rose.
Together again! The old gang from the Lowell Sun when Linda worked there as a reporter in the early 90s. From left to right: Ken Beaulieu, Doug Pizzi, Kathleen Beaulieu, Marcia Peck Cassidy, Mike O'Connell, Melissa Franks and Christopher Scott. Thanks to Mike for this photo.