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Tom Morrow

Tom Morrow is a longtime Oceanside-based journalist and author. His columns from OsideNews are now incorporated into the North Coast Current.

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The White House is pictured in June 2020. (Photo by Tabrez Syed via Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: America’s ambition(less?) vice presidents

Tom Morrow
February 12, 2025
Music. (Photo by Matt Botsford via Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: Merry holiday song was composed by artist with local ties

Tom Morrow
December 31, 2024
Christmas Tree lights

Historically Speaking: Christmas of yesteryear in the Middle West

Tom Morrow
December 24, 2024
The White House is pictured in June 2020. (Photo by Tabrez Syed via Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: 1800 to 2024, we’ve had ugly elections before

Tom Morrow
October 31, 2024
James Montgomery Flagg’s Uncle Sam, from the artist’s iconic recruiting poster. (Library of Congress)

Historically Speaking: Uncle Sam, the patriotic American icon

Tom Morrow
September 30, 2024
The Chicago Sun-Times front page from Aug. 28, 1968, covered the unrest of the Democratic Convention at the time. (Chicago Sun-Times)

Historically Speaking: The raucous Democratic convention of 1968

Tom Morrow
August 31, 2024
U.S. Olympic sprinters (from left) Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe and Frank Wykoff do a light warm-up on the deck of the S.S. Manhattan before they sail for Germany to compete in the 1936 Olympics. (Public Domain image)

Historically Speaking: Olympic gold and what ‘could have been’

Tom Morrow
July 31, 2024
The Betsy Ross Flag flies outside of the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia. (Photo by Dan Mall via Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: Betsy Ross, an original American patriot

Tom Morrow
June 30, 2024
Albert Goodwill Spalding. (Historical photo)

Historically Speaking: The man who helped build baseball, and influenced San Diego

Tom Morrow
May 31, 2024
Jack White, who grew up in Oceanside, is among San Diego’s noteworthy broadcasters, having worked for KGTV Channel 10 for more than three decades. (Courtesy photo)

Historically Speaking: The night one magic master met another

Tom Morrow
April 10, 2024
Donner Peak in Truckee. (Photo by Jeff Hopper via Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: Truckee and Des Moines, the history behind the names

Tom Morrow
March 19, 2024
The Betsy Ross Flag flies outside of the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia. (Photo by Dan Mall via Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: Betsy Ross, an original American patriot

Tom Morrow
February 21, 2024
Editions of the North County Times and U-T San Diego show the evolution of the papers’ merger. (North Coast Current photo)

Historically Speaking: Communities lose with end of daily newspapers

Tom Morrow
January 19, 2024
Holiday presents. (Photo by Clint Patterson via Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: Christmas of yesteryear in the Middle West

Tom Morrow
December 14, 2023
Clocks representing times around the world. (Photo by Kevin Klima, iStock Getty Images)

Historically Speaking: Got some time? Read up on how ‘time’ works

Tom Morrow
November 12, 2023
Boston Red Sox catcher Moe Berg (right) talks with player-manager Joe Cronin in the dugout in 1937. (Photo from the Moe Berg Papers, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library)

Historically Speaking: Moe Berg, the catcher who was a spy

Tom Morrow
October 10, 2023
Will Rogers, pictured in Filmplay Journal, January 1922. (Public Domain image)

Historically Speaking: Will Rogers, prolific humorist and performer

Tom Morrow
September 11, 2023
Julius Robert Oppenheimer is pictured in a 1944 Department of Energy photo. (National Archives Catalog)

Historically Speaking: Oppenheimer, ‘the destroyer of worlds’

Tom Morrow
August 11, 2023
In the 1940s, movie star Hedy Lamarr was one of Hollywood’s most sought-after leading ladies. But away from the cameras, her passion for innovation spawned the wireless communication technology we take for granted today. (Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story)

Historically Speaking: The ‘world’s most beautiful inventor’

Tom Morrow
July 9, 2023
Performer and philanthropist Danny Thomas founded St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in 1962. (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital photo)

Historically Speaking: Danny Thomas, a man behind the fight against cancer

Tom Morrow
June 3, 2023
A Sears catalog cover from the early 1960s. (Goodwill image)

Historically Speaking: The nation’s first mail order general stores

Tom Morrow
May 10, 2023
Tom Morrow, then a young writer from Iowa, at the world's largest Buddha in Japan. (Tom Morrow photo)

Historically Speaking: Confessions of a writer

Tom Morrow
April 16, 2023
A portrait of American financier John Pierpont (J.P.) Morgan, painted by Fedor Encke in 1903. (Creative Commons image)

Historically Speaking: The banker who saved America 

Tom Morrow
March 22, 2023
Part of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington D.C., pictuted in December 2018, represents the depths of the Great Depression. (Photo by Sonder Quest via Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: From riches to rags to world leadership

Tom Morrow
March 11, 2023
The Robert E. Lee mansion, pictured in March 2022, forms a backdrop at Arlington National Cemetery. (Photo by Chad Stembridge via Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: The mansion above Arlington National Cemetery

Tom Morrow
February 23, 2023
The Palomar Observatory, located in northeast San Diego County. (Photo by Kevin Hudnell, iStock Getty Images)

Historically Speaking: The eye on the sky right in our back yard

Tom Morrow
February 4, 2023
Holiday presents. (Photo by Clint Patterson via Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: Christmas of yesteryear in the Midwest

Tom Morrow
December 27, 2022
Election Day. (Photo by Element5 Digital, Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: 2024 could amount to another election debacle

Tom Morrow
November 12, 2022
Brig. Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell. (Army photo)

Historically Speaking: The court martial of an aviation visionary

Tom Morrow
October 15, 2022
Whether you’re a small investor or a company CEO, or neither, monitoring the daily Dow Jones Industrial Average is a way of keeping tabs on the pulse of the nation’s business health. (Photo by Markus Spiske via Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: When Mr. Dow met Mr. Jones

Tom Morrow
September 29, 2022
The White House is pictured in June 2020. (Photo by Tabrez Syed via Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: A historical assessment of 14 presidents

Tom Morrow
September 17, 2022
Working for Britain’s Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War is where author Ian Fleming got his ideas for creating 007, James Bond. (Photo by Kristaps Ungurs via Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: The man who would be Bond

Tom Morrow
August 21, 2022
President John F. Kennedy is pictured on a 1960s-era television set. (Photo by Lucrezia Carnelos via Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: The ‘Golden Age’ depends upon your age

Tom Morrow
July 14, 2022
U.S. Olympic sprinters (from left) Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe and Frank Wykoff do a light warm-up on the deck of the S.S. Manhattan before they sail for Germany to compete in the 1936 Olympics. (Public Domain image)

Historically Speaking: The 10th-of-a-second nightmare in Berlin

Tom Morrow
June 21, 2022
A worker checks electrical assemblies at Vega Aircraft Corp. in Burbank in 1942 during World War II. (Photo by David Bransby, Library of Congress collection)

Historically Speaking: Some key points of 20th century U.S. history

Tom Morrow
June 1, 2022
Movies. (Photo by Anika Mikkelson via Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: A few celebrity moments from yesteryear

Tom Morrow
May 19, 2022
Esso gas pumps from another era. (Photo by Bannon Morrissy via Unsplash)

Historically Speaking: The cost of living after eight decades

Tom Morrow
May 10, 2022
Columnist Tom Morrow stands with noted director Billy Wilder at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. (Photo courtesy of Tom Morrow)

Notes and Quotes: My breakfast with a film legend

Tom Morrow
April 28, 2022
Sunset. (Photo by Matt Phillips via Unsplash)

Notes and Quotes: Short visits to small places

Tom Morrow
April 10, 2022
“Washington Goes To War,” By David Brinkley.

Notes & Quotes: When Washington went to war; reviewing our past in light of today

Tom Morrow
April 1, 2022
Sunset. (Photo by Matt Phillips via Unsplash)

Notes & Quotes: The Smiths of the Okefenokee Swamp

Tom Morrow
March 24, 2022
Sunset at Ponto Beach in Carlsbad. (OsideNews file photo)

Notes & Quotes: The sun shines brightest on the Pacific

Tom Morrow
March 17, 2022
Sunset. (Photo by Matt Phillips via Unsplash)

Notes & Quotes: First steps to the West in a historic year

Tom Morrow
March 10, 2022
Sunset. (Photo by Matt Phillips via Unsplash)

Notes & Quotes: The miracle of mentioning ‘Kansas’ 

Tom Morrow
March 1, 2022

Notes & Quotes: The rise and demise of the daily newspaper

Tom Morrow
February 19, 2022
Notes and Quotes- February 13, 2022

Notes and Quotes- February 13, 2022

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
February 13, 2022
Notes and Quotes-February 6, 2022

Notes and Quotes-February 6, 2022

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
February 6, 2022
Notes and Quotes- January 30, 2022

Notes and Quotes- January 30, 2022

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
January 30, 2022
Historically Speaking: The Automobile Man and his Dream

Historically Speaking: The Automobile Man and his Dream

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
February 3, 2019

Tom Morrow’s ‘Historically Speaking’

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
June 17, 2018
Tom Morrows' Notes and Quotes plus Sunday Serial Return to OsideNews

Tom Morrows’ Notes and Quotes plus Sunday Serial Return to OsideNews

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
October 25, 2017
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

November 13, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
November 13, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

November 6, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
November 6, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

October 30, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
October 30, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

October 23, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
October 23, 2014
October 16, 2014

October 16, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
October 16, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

October 2, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
October 2, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

September 18, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
September 18, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

September 11, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
September 11, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

September 7, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
September 7, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

September 4, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
September 4, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

August 31, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
August 31, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

August 28, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
August 28, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

August 24, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
August 24, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

August 21, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
August 21, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

August 17, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
August 17, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

August 14, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
August 14, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

August 7, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
August 7, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

August 3, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
August 3, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

July 31, 2104

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
July 31, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

July 24, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
July 24, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

July 20, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
July 20, 2014
Notes and Quotes by Tom Morrow

July 17, 2014

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
July 17, 2014
Notes & Quotes

Notes & Quotes

Tom Morrow, OsideNews
July 13, 2014
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