The Virginian Pilot, February 8th, 1999
Byline: Larry Bonko THE ADMIRAL who had been in what he called the hero business for 30 years paused for a moment so that I could take his picture. Richard E. Byrd, once a dashing figure in his Navy whites, was, by January 1956, an old man in ill health. After leaving his stateroom aboard the cargo ship Wyandot, Byrd made his third and final flight over the South Pole. He did it for the first time on Thanksgiving Day 1929. Tonight at 9 on PBS, in ``Alone on the Ice'' from the producers of ``The American Experience,'' you will see Byrd as I saw him before that last flight - pale and thin wit...
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