Olympic Pins, Olympic Memorabilia, Olympic Docs 1968

During the month before the Mexico 1968 Olympics, Bert Quint of CBS News hired me. At that time he was head of Latin America Bureau. He knew his office would become busy. The timing was good for me and as he said, your resume will look even better after you have experience working at the Olympics. Although I had no time to even learn about pin trading I did receive a few as gifts, mostly thank you gifts. The items that are gifts are somehow more precious. When I left Mexico I had several items, some autographed, some not. Items like a musical rattle made from a gourd, a huge Prensa sign, a few pins, a basketball signed by many, some of the official printed results from our news room, other news releases and a few artifacts. One plak was made of knitting wool carefully applied to a 10" x 10" piece of wood in the shape of 1968. It is an ancient craft in Mexico. Amazingly, it was that craftsmanship that was the inspiration of the famous Mexico 1968 Olympic Logos! 

One of memory was the excitement (that still gives me a charge)of hearing Walter Cronkite on the phone!

(Hmm, wondering now...if news will ever become objective again.)