Dave Brown
Dave Brown, Retired Journalist and member of the Anti-skyjacking Task Force
Dave H. Brown was an Ohio newspaper reporter/editor for nearly 15 years before beginning a 24-year career as a government public-information officer. Retiring in 1991, he became a community college adjunct professor. After 9/11, he wrote three books critical of airport security procedures and two other non-fiction titles before penning five political novels. Brown and his wife reside in North Bethesda, Maryland, and Boynton Beach, FL.
Books by Dave Brown
Air Force One Has Vanished! A Political Novel
Of the countless books and films about Air Force One, the Oval Office, and Capital Hill, none of the plots compare to Air Force One Has Vanished! The drama unfolds from a Miami air traffic control tower that has just lost contact with Air Force One as it enters the infamous Bermuda Triangle of the Atlantic Ocean. With the President now missing, and no sitting Vice President, laymakers on Capitol Hill find themselves in a political frenzy in an effort to determine a replacement. Who’s running the government? You’ll find out via a spellbinding series of twists and turns in the nation s capital. Read More…
Still Coming Of Age Into My 90s
The underlying theme of Still Coming Of Age Into My 90s is the premise that my life has been, and continues to be, like a jigsaw puzzle.
At the start, spaces were empty and clues scattered. By trial and error, and some luck, the spaces began to fill. Yet I still haven’t always recognized the connections. Sometimes nothing seems to make sense. The harder I tried to understand, the more I failed.
As I tell my alter-ego the story of my life, including my time as a combat rifleman with the 97th Division during WWII, my journalism career, my positions as assistant director of information under Justice Department Attorney General Ramsey Clark, my handling of 400 demonstrators arrested for blocking the Pentagon and, most importantly, my job as the first, and only, spokesman for the Anti-Skyjacking Task Force, bearing a direct impact to the events of Sept. 11, 2001, you’ll understand why the stories of my life are better than fiction.
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Operation Darts
Some quarter of a century ago, I was invited to give a speech titled “Government and the News Media; Friends or Foes.” I had given that same talk in various parts of the country. The program was part of an adult learning class.
When the mid-presentation break was over, I was shocked to see half of the audience had left. That was a first for me. When I pressed my sponsor for an explanation, he hemmed and hawed until he explained, “They felt you were a ‘no name’ speaker.”
I spent my first nearly 15 years as a reporter on three Ohio newspapers, plus some 24 years as a federal government press officer at four agencies. I did not know of any other speaker with a similar background giving a similar topic. However, I admit I never made it to television appearances.
The “no name” label stuck in my craw for many years until I was listed in the latest publication of “Who’s Who in America” along with 24,999 others.
I am at peace.