From the May 4, 2012, Bloomberg Business Week by David R. Caruso.
AP correspondent Edward Kennedy reported Germany's surrender a full day ahead of his competition back in 1945 and was publicly rebuked by AP and then quietly fired for having bypassed military censors.
President Truman and Churchill had agreed to suppress news of Germany's surrender for a day so Stalin could stage a second surrender ceremony in Berlin.
Sixty-seven years later, AP's top executive apologized to Kennedy's family.
Edward Kennedy was one of 17 reporters taken by the military to the ceremony, but whom had been barred from reporting on it until the Allied Command said they could. According to Kennedy, he was originally told to keep a lid on it for a few hours.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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