Nov 25, 2024 · Department of Cultural Affairs

ADVISORY: Learn about the editor who cracked the Teapot Dome scandal and sent a NM US senator to prison in ONLINE lecture

Presented by the Friends of New Mexico History Museum on Wed., Dec. 4, noon.

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Hi Everyone,

Join Jack McElroy, author, newspaper editor, and retired journalist, for an ONLINE lecture about newspaperman Carl Magee, as part of the Friends of History monthly lecture series.

What: This month’s Friends of History First Wednesday Lecture Series features a talk by retired journalist Jack McElroy about the life of newspaperman Carl Magee. Magee arrived in Albuquerque in 1919 and bought The Albuquerque Journal , then launched The Albuquerque Tribune . He 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. Learn more about this fascinating historical figure at this lecture.

Who: Friends of History , New Mexico History Museum

When: Wednesday, December 4, 12 – 1 p.m.

Where: ONLINE lecture. Free registration online .

Why: Friends of History, a nonprofit organization of volunteers dedicated to supporting the New Mexico History Museum, offers monthly programs from a diversity of speakers who are leading experts in their fields and have contributed to New Mexico’s history.

Thanks, Christina

Christina Claassen christina.claassen@dca.nm.gov 505-946-7149

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