Wed Dec 4, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Friends of History Wednesday Lecture Series
Carl Magee: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge and Invented the Parking Meter
Please join Jack McElroy, Author; Newspaper Editor and Journalist (Retired), for an ONLINE talk as part of our Friends of History Lecture Series. Carl Magee arrived in Albuquerque in 1919 and bought The Albuquerque Journal, then launched The Albuquerque Tribune. The newspaperman was soon at war with New Mexico’s powerful political machine. Magee later exposed the Teapot Dome bribery scandal that sent New Mexico’s first U.S. senator, Albert Fall, to prison. Along the way, Magee had run-ins with a local judge and the law. After leaving New ...
