Channel 2 Action News anchor turns author – WSB-TV Channel 2

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. — John Pruitt is an enormous believer in ending what you begin.

“I’m telling individuals I truly developed the thought my first week on the job at WSB,” Pruitt mentioned.

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Longtime WSB-TV anchor John Pruitt is now a broadcast writer.

Channel 2′s Berndt Petersen was in Peachtree Metropolis as Pruitt was signing his e-book at present.

Pruitt remembers it prefer it was yesterday.

“July of 1964. I used to be employed as a really naïve, younger, school graduate,” Pruitt mentioned.

Pruitt went on to document historical past.

Days after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, Pruitt coated a segregationist rally exterior of Atlanta the place 4 African American college students have been severely crushed.

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He then reported on the homicide of a Black U.S. Military veteran who was shotgunned to loss of life by the Klan close to Athens.

These occasions, as horrible as they have been, have been an inspiration.

“The primary chapter is known as ‘The Bridge,’” Pruitt mentioned. It’s all woven collectively in a novel, fiction primarily based on precise occasions. It’s known as ‘Inform It True.’ As information individuals, we all the time inform it true. Proper?”

At a e-book signing Tuesday on the Peachtree Metropolis Library, residents remembered Pruitt’s many years as Atlanta’s most trusted newsman.

Practically 60 years after reporting that first story, the novel that it impressed is prepared. “I’ve all the time cherished to put in writing. I like to consider this as being a brand new enterprise, even at my considerably superior age.”

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Pruitt could have e-book signings all around the metro space within the coming weeks, together with on the Carter Heart and the Atlanta Historical past Heart.

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