Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century.
Mencken is perhaps best remembered today for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he named the "Monkey" trial. [from Wikipedia]
We often hear witty and thoughtful quotes attributed to H.L. Mencken but we've never seen any video or heard any audio of the man - until now. The following "video" is actually only audio except for the still photograph accompanying it. While Mr. Mencken may not say anthing as entertaining as some of his quoted material in this brief interview which took place on June 30, 1948, it may help to give you a "sense of the man". UPDATE: This is apparently the 1st of 8 parts of this "audio" video. We'll leave it up to the enterprising to find the rest but you may want to start here.
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