Republicans rally for their man against Kennedy in '60 (story includes home-movie footage shot from within motorcade), and we dig into the past of two famed Nashville cemeteries
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Listen in as we celebrate one Nashville citizen's 101st birthday by hearing her tell of her encounters with history.... Also: A VP candidate from Nashville helps sway a presidential election, the high court buries Tennessee's state income tax, and the state's first interracial marriage takes place without incident
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A look at the life of Jack Massey
An excerpt from the multi-author book Nashville: An American Self-Portrait, edited by John Egerton and E. Thomas Wood
It was a year that few in Nashville's business community will forget. A venerable name in the financial community went by the wayside. A Nashville-based company that people here knew little about became the focus of one of the worst product-liability controversies in history. And the steward of the Grand Ole Opry endured a series of strategic upheavals.
Attached list yields payout amounts for more than 100 partners who made at least $1.2M each
[as published in Nashville Post print supplement]
[Fri 11:50 a.m. Sep 22]-What's the J.C. Bradford & Co. name worth?
Here are the answers to the last three questions of the NashvillePost.com history quiz, which was published in the Aug. 21 print edition.
Editor's note: NashvillePost.com did its best to cover the chaotic final weeks of the legislative session. In doing so, reporter Bill Carey accumulated his share of amusing anecdotes and quotes.
[Fri 4:30 pm Apr 28]--The scion of Nashville's last locally-owned, dominant financial-services company explains why he is selling J.C. Bradford & Co. to Paine Webber Group for $620 million.