Ray E. Boomhower's Books

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." A.J. Liebling

Monday, August 31, 2026

Richard Tregaskis and the Parachute Battalion

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In early April 1943, after recovering from reporting firsthand from the Pacific battlefields, war correspondent Richard Tregaskis of the In...
Friday, August 14, 2026

Wallace Terry and Vietnam

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Outgoing Washington, DC, May 1967 It had been two years since the US Marines stormed ashore at Da Nang, South Vietnam, marking the first maj...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

Preorders Available for Wallce Terry Biography

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In  Wallace Terry: A Reporter’s Journey from Selma to Saigon to  Bloods, award-winning   biographer Ray E. Boomhower tells the story of a ...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

The AP Reporter and the Buddhist Monk

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While president John F. Kennedy was talking on the phone with his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, on the morning of Tuesday, June ...
Thursday, June 4, 2026

The Knock: William Manchester & Robert Kennedy

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The pounding on the door of Suite 1407 at the Berkshire Hotel in Midtown Manhattan reverberated throughout its two rooms early in the mornin...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Wallace Terry, Zalin Grant, and a Mission to Cholon

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Viet Cong rockets and mortars shattered Saigon’s peace early in the morning of May 5, 1968. The renewed fighting led Wallace Terry , a Time ...
Monday, January 5, 2026

A Shooting War: Margaret Bourke-White & Richard Tregaskis

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Life magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White had undergone a nerve-racking day near the front lines dodging enemy shells that whooshed...
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Ray Boomhower
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Biographer and ex-reporter. My numerous books have included biographies of such notable figures as Richard Tregaskis, Robert Sherrod, Gus Grissom, Ernie Pyle, Benjamin Harrison, John Bartlow Martin, Lew Wallace, Juliet Strauss, and May Wright Sewall. I also serve as senior editor of the Indiana Historical Society's popular history magazine Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. I am also available to lecture on a number of topics related to Indiana history. To arrange a talk, contact me at: reboomer@yahoo.com
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