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Founding crew that set up this this program. Tony lucas was a wonderful nonfiction writer and reporter who was not only great at what he did, but also cared a lot about the field. This kind of work is not part of mass culture shall we say but its a Distinct Community of people who really care about it and are devoted to it and help and support each other and it was very important to tony to be part of that community he put on with me as his sort of deputy a big conference on nonfiction writing at new York State Writers Institute in albany back in 91 or 92 called telling the truth at the time o...

1997. I guess 25 years ago part of the founding crew that set up this this program. Tony lucas was a wonderful nonfiction writer and reporter who was not only great at what he did, but also cared a lot about the field. This kind of work is not part of mass culture shall we say but its a Distinct Community of people who really care about it and are devoted to it and help and support each other and it was very important to tony to be part of that community he put on with me as his sort of deputy a big conference on nonfiction writing at new York State Writers Institute in albany back in 91 or 92...

Welcome everybody. Were here for the J Anthony Lucas prize pride project ceremony will be honoring excellence in Nonfiction Book writing with four awards. Im nick lemon. Im x dean now faculty member here at columbia journalism school, and im especially happy to be here because i was back in 1997. I guess 25 years ago part of the founding crew that set up this this program. Tony lucas was a wonderful nonfiction writer and reporter who was not only great at what he did, but also cared a lot about the field. This kind of work is not part of mass culture shall we say but its a Distinct Community o...

Start any trouble. Just thank your agent and your stylist and leave the stage. And the other voice is going, no, no, you have a responsibility. Theres a war going on. You must Say Something. Ive invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage, because we like nonfiction. And we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious Election Results that elects a fictitious president. [ boos ] we live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether its the fictitious of orange alerts, we are against this war, mr. Bush. Shame on you, mr. Bush. ...

The few surviving images by robert kappa, to bring the battle to life. >> as filmmakers, we took every inch of that beach. and it took us 25 days of shooting to capture 25 minutes of those landings. >> follow me. >> it was very, very loud. there was a lot of explosives. they're planting pyrotechnics on your body or in the ground. this is a lot of places to get hurt. >> reporter: every agonizing moment was based on the recollections of veterans who were there. >> after the first explosion took my best friend out, he was in pieces all over the beach. he got sand in my eyes. and he said, i couldn...