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Actors, Journalists, Activists, Scholars and Others Continue the War and Peace Epic

Thirty-five years after WBAI's 1970 War and Peace broadcast, the Pacifica Radio Archive gathered actors, activists, scholars and journalists to read sections of the epic novel.

Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas was one of those invited. Commonly referred to as "The First Lady of the Press," Helen Thomas is the most senior member of the White House press corps. She has served as White House correspondent for United Press International for nearly 60 years and has covered every President since John F. Kennedy. She is now a columnist for Hearst newspapers.

President Gerald Ford once remarked, "If God created the Earth in six days, he couldn't have rested on the seventh - he would have had to explain it Helen Thomas."

The Pacifica Radio Archives asked the veteran journalist to read an excerpt of Leo Tolstoy's epic work, War and Peace.

• Helen Thomas, veteran White House correspondent reading "War and Peace" and discussing the novel.

She was not the only to read Tolstoy's novel for Pacifica Radio. We end today with some of the voices that continue the War and Peace epic.

• Mumia Abu Jamal and others reading "War and Peace."

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