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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Stanley Johnston's blunder
    sub title: the reporter who spilled the secret behind the U.S. Navy's victory at Midway
  name:
    name part: Carlson, Elliot
    name part: 1936-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 312 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Elliot Carlson tells of Stanley Johnston, a Chicago Tribune reporter who exposed a vitally important secret during World War II. After Johnston is embarked in the USS Lexington during the Battle of the Coral Sea, he is assigned to a cabin on the rescue ship Barnett where messages from Pacific Fleet commander Admiral Chester Nimitz are circulated. One reveals the order of battle of Imperial Japanese Navy forces advancing on Midway Atoll. Johnston shares this info in a 7 June 1942 Chicago Tribune front-page story. Navy officials fear the Japanese will discover the article, realize their code has been cracked and quickly change it. Drawing on seventy-five-year-old testimony never before released, Carlson describes the grand jury room where jurors convened by the FDR administration consider charges that Johnston violated the Espionage Act. Using FBI files, U.S. Navy records, archival materials from the Chicago Tribune and Japanese sources, Carlson at last brings to light the full story of Stanley Johnston's trial.
  table of contents: Mystery in Washington -- A date with Lady Lex -- Guts and glory -- A room with a view -- Hold the presses! -- Aid and comfort to the enemy -- Moments of truth -- The gathering storm -- A beautiful mess -- Johnston and Seligman: men in the middle -- Full speed ahead -- McCormick and Knox: showdown -- The Grand Jury decides -- Fortunes of war -- Did the Japanese know?.
  note: Elliot Carlson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Johnston, Stanley
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Johnston, Stanley
    topic: Trials, litigation, etc
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Chicago Tribune (Firm)
    topic: Trials, litigation, etc
  subject:
    topic: Midway, Battle of, 1942
  subject:
    topic: War correspondents
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Leaks (Disclosure of information)
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Journalists
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Cryptography
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Press coverage
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Censorship
  classification: D774.M5 C284 2017
  classification: 940.54/26699
  identifier: 9781591146797
  identifier: 1591146798
  identifier: 9781682472743
  identifier: 2017024861
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170801
    record change date: 20180214140338.0
    record identifier: in00003985269