She was the first female accredited correspondent during World War II. After secret meetings with its author, she smuggled The New Class, an anti-Communist manifesto out of Yugoslavia, where it went on to sell more than three million copies and be translated into more than 60 languages. Isn’t it time you knew her story?
Katharine Clark was the first female military accredited correspondent during World War II. Staying on as a foreign correspondent behind the Iron Curtain after the War, she risked her life to expose the truth about the realities of Communism to the world.
Join author Katharine Gregorio to discover a trailblazer and an intense and too little-known Cold War story. Gregorio dug into the real life of her great aunt to write The Double Life of Katharine Clark: The Untold Story of the Fearless Journalist Who Risked Her Life for Truth and Justice. From her early radio broadcasts in 1939 supporting her father, General Sanderford Jarman, to keep his troops connected in the jungles of Panama to becoming the first woman to broadcast out of Allied Occupied Berlin after World War II ended, her background gave her a unique position at the onset of the Cold War. As a foreign correspondent, she developed a friendship with Milovan Djilas, who helped establish the Communist government of Yugoslavia. The remarkable work Clark did with Djilas as he turned against Communism happened against the backdrop of protests in Poland and a revolution in Hungary, both of which Clark covered as the first female wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain for the International News Service.
Support for this program has been provided by a generous grant from the Pritzker Military Foundation, on behalf of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library.
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