He had Elvis' private phone number. He spent an afternoon with a young activist named Martin Luther King, Jr. He talked for hours sipping soda with evangelist Billy Graham. In his memoirs, Final Edition and Me, LaRue Gilleland shares his reporting of these young and up-and-coming game changers and recounts numerous stories from his impressive journalism career including posing as a bootleg whiskey buyer to uncover a local moonshine operation, interviewing a woman who had murdered and sawed her husband into pieces, escaping from a forbidden night club in the old Soviet Union, and failing to...
He had Elvis' private phone number. He spent an afternoon with a young activist named Martin Luther King, Jr. He talked for hours sipping soda with ev...