# Newseum **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 26, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newseum/446946 "2008-04-26T04:47:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newseum/446946/1 "2008-04-26T04:47:08Z")
I went to the New Newseum in DC last week. Impressive building and location, with a great view of the Capitol. Some amazing news-related displays, including Don Bole’s car, and the TV antenna from the top of the World Trade Center. In the 911 display, they had a tribute to a photographer who died when the second tower fell. His crushed cameras were on display - pretty heart-wrenching. Anyone else been there? ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newseum/446946/2 "2008-04-26T15:07:51Z")
I haven’t been yet, but I’d love to go. History of media is a professional interest of mine, and I’ve been waiting for quite some time for this. We’ll probably take a weekend to go down to see it. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newseum/446946/3 "2008-04-26T15:49:14Z")
Wasn’t there some sort of movement to boycott the opening for some reason? ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newseum/446946/4 "2008-04-26T15:57:38Z")
I went last month with my son’s class, and I wasn’t looking forward to it (fretting over all the Smithsonians we could have gone to instead) but it turned out to be really neat. It was still unfinished so a lot of stuff wasn’t opened yet, like the section with Pulitzer prize-winning photographs, which I would have liked to have seen. I liked the display of the front pages of newspapers from all over the world on Sept 12, 2001. And there’s a long wall displaying today’s front page from one newspaper in every state and from newspapers in lots of different countries. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newseum/446946/5 "2008-04-26T16:09:34Z")
[QUOTE=beowulff] I went to the New Newseum in DC last week. Impressive building and location, with a great view of the Capitol. Some amazing news-related displays, including Don Bole’s car, and the TV antenna from the top of the World Trade Center. In the 911 display, they had a tribute to a photographer who died when the second tower fell. His crushed cameras were on display - pretty heart-wrenching. Anyone else been there? [/QUOTE] OK, who is Don Bole, and why would his car be on display? (My Google search came up empty.) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newseum/446946/6 "2008-04-26T16:41:54Z")
[QUOTE=Dewey Finn] OK, who is Don Bole, and why would his car be on display? (My Google search came up empty.) [/QUOTE] Because I’m a moron. It’s Bolles:[Don Bolles - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bolles) ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newseum/446946/7 "2008-04-26T17:45:35Z")
I used to work directly across the street from the Newseum (back when it was in Roslyn, VA), and would head over there all the time. I haven’t been to DC in a few years, so never made it to the new location, but imagine it’s just as great. Man I miss that place! ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newseum/446946/8 "2008-04-26T18:18:59Z")
Some photos: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/3279/2442895905_1e50636bb0_b.jpg "Capitol\_view") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/2442895905/) [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/2408/2443724920_e990fedd2b_b.jpg "Berlin\_wall") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/2443724920/) [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/3186/2442895645_dd00a5a377_b.jpg "911") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/2442895645/) [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/2169/2443724668_297a0c868d_b.jpg "Bolles") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/2443724668/) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newseum/446946/9 "2008-04-26T18:33:04Z")
When I was a junior in college, one of our journalism professors took a group of us to DC to visit his friend at USA Today and the Newseum. I remember thinking it was pretty cool, and inspiring (this was pre-9/11). Oddly enough, the only specific thing I remember was that I purchased a small ashtray with a licensed Yellow Submarine picture on the bottom from their gift shop. This was my “main” ashtray when I was still smoking, and it always amused me that I had to go to a news museum in DC to get myself a decent Beatles ashtray.