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Rich Everitt
began his broadcasting career when, at age 10, he read a local newspaper
over a “crystal radio” he made from a coil of wire and
a 10-cent diode from Radio Shack. Since then, he has won numerous
media awards for investigative reporting, public service reporting,
and producing. As a TV reporter, Rich Everitt has exposed corruption
in local governments, covered civil unrest in the South (he was the
first Television News Reporter to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and
returned with the video), and has interviewed most of the major newsmakers
of the past 20 years.
Rich holds a Master of Arts from Emerson College.
He further honed his film and television writing at Harvard. He
also holds Bachelor of Arts in psychology and speech from LaGrange
College.
In his spare time, Rich enjoys rebuilding antique
automobiles, including his 1965 Mustang convertible. When he’s
not driving, Rich is flying. He is a licensed pilot and the proud
owner of a classic 1958 Cessna 172 Skyhawk. Rich has logged time in
a variety of aircraft types including the F-4, F-16 and T-33 high
performance fighter jets, as well as the venerable World War Two era
DC-3 cargo plane. Rich can also hold his own in the water. He’s
a certified open water scuba diver and has logged dives in the Atlantic,
Caribbean and South Pacific. In his spare time Rich fronts the acoustic
folk trio, The Blind Willies. Rich lives in Augusta, Georgia, with
his wife, Susan, and daughter, Ellen.
Click on any link below to watch Rich talk
about
Falling Stars: Air Crashes that Filled Rock & Roll Heaven
Rich
talks about Falling Stars: Air Crashes that Filled Rock &
Roll Heaven
4:47
Rich
talks about celebrities who provided background information
1:05
Rich
explains "Ironies & Oddities"
1:05
Rich talks about Buddy Holly
:35
Rich
talks about Rick Nelson
:27
Rich talks about Patsy Cline
:32
Rich talks about Lynyrd Skynyrd
1:19
REVIEWS
“Falling Stars
is very readable and visual as the events leading to the deaths of
these musicians come off the page like a TV news documentary.”
Southern Scribe
“ (Falling Stars)
provides great detail, including artists’ backgrounds, interviews from
friends and people on the scenes and facts about the crashes of the
most famous celebrity plane crashes…”
Chattanooga Times Free Press
“Everitt does an
excellent job of reducing to a few pages or paragraphs the musical
history that brought each of these performers to his or her final
journey. Fascinating.”
Forward
Magazine
“Chocked full of
the kind of tidbits that rock trivia fans love.”
Augusta
Magazine
“Remarkable human
stories.”
The
Southern Standard
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