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Fred B. Walters
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Price: $24.95432 pages | ISBN: 0-9769820-0-5
“His intellectual brilliancy and charm of manner naturally attracted a very considerable clientele to this many-sided Irishman and he had soon thoroughly well-established himself in the community and had won recognition in the exclusive Kent County social life. . . No man in the splendid galaxy of Delawareans of the Revolution stands out with more commanding brilliancy for the short space of time he was active in the cause of independence than Haslet. . . ”
- From a 1933 newspaper article on file with the Historical Society of
Delaware."Forged on the anvil of hardship under the hammer of experience, the Delaware Regiment was a weapon which any of the great captains of history would have been glad to launch at his foe. It is not too much to say that no other single regiment in the American army had a longer and more continuous term of service, marched more miles, suffered greater hardships, fought in more battles or achieved greater distinction than this one of Delaware."
- Christopher Ward in “The Delaware Continentals.”“The State of Delaware furnished one regiment only; and certainly no regiment in the Army surpassed it in soldiership.”
- Lt. Col. Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee of Virginia.“The American losses (at Princeton) were far less than the British, but Washington lost officers he could ill afford to lose, among them General Mercer, killed trying to rally his men, and Colonel Haslet, who had emerged as one of his steadiest, most reliable officers.”
- Page Smith, “A New Age Now Begins,” Vol. I of his bicentennial history series.“Colonel Haslet . . . distinguished himself through the campaign by being foremost in services of danger. He was a gallant officer, and gallantly seconded by the Delaware troops.”
- Washington Irving’s “Life of Washington.”
As a native Philadelphian, Fred Walters was exposed to colonial history early. A career in journalism nurtured his interest in how events shape our lives. When his interests in colonial history led to his discovery of the Revolutionary War hero John Haslet and he found that very little information had been published about him, Walters determined that someday he would learn all he could about John Haslet and write his story.
His career in journalism was jump-started when he began working for The Associated Press as a writer/reporter in his senior year at the University of Pennsylvania (after three and a half years in the U.S. Navy). Eleven years later he switched to broadcasting and has been a reporter, editor, and news executive for Metromedia in Philadelphia; for Westinghouse Broadcasting Company (since merged into CBS) in Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, and Los Angeles; and for ABC at its station in Detroit. As a news executive he developed and directed large, award-winning news staffs.
To commemorate the nation’s Bicentennial he wrote and produced for the Westinghouse stations, in cooperation with the University of Pennsylvania, a series of twelve, one-hour programs (The Course of Human Events) that won the National Headliners Award for 1976.
He has been a member of the Society of Professional Journalists since 1966, and was president of the Greater Philadelphia chapter in 1976 and 1977. He served as chairman of the society’s 1975 national convention, held in Philadelphia.
He also was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents Association from 1957 to 1969, and its president from 1961 to 1963.
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