On Jan. 18, 2023, our special ZOOM presentation featured the fascinating story of Gareth Jones, the investigative journalist who told the world about Stalin’s 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine in which millions perished.
You can watch the recording of our ZOOM event even if you did not sign up for the original live program.
There are TWO separate recordings:
ONE is the main presentation.
To watch recording ONE , first copy the following Passcode: !6@+KVPr because the first screen will ask for this Passcode. Then, click on this link to go to that first passcode screen and on to the recording.
TWO includes some of the question & answer period that followed.
To watch recording TWO , first copy the following Passcode: !hS*n4h1i because the first screen will ask for the Passcode. Then, click on this link to go to that first passcode screen and on to the recording.
Margaret West - presented the story of Gareth Jones
Our presenter was Margaret West, from Rhayader, mid-Wales, now a journalist based in Washington DC, and a founding producer of NPR’s "Talk of the Nation”. On the foreign desk, she edited reports from Russia and Europe.
This presentation drew world-wide interest, particularly from the Ukrainian diaspora, to make this our largest-ever WSWNE ZOOM audience.
The Zoom presentation, hosted by WSWNE, was a fascinating look at the life and work of Gareth Jones, using amongst other sources, his diaries that he left behind in Wales.
Many Western journalists knew about the famine but none filed reports in their on names or recorded from first-hand observations. Jones’ veracity was challenged by Soviet authorities and by Walter Duranty, a celebrated New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief.
Were it not for Jones, the world would not have known the extent of the suffering until much later and he is honored for his truthful and courageous work. Duranty is viewed as a shameful apologist for Stalin.