Let's Talk PR & More Show #102: Sam Waltz on the PR campaign to vindicate top commanders at Pearl Harbor

Sherry Goldman's guest is Sam Waltz, strategic PR counselor and founder of SamWaltz.com Strategic Capital & Business Council. Timed with 2025 being the 84th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, Sherry and Sam discuss his Silver Anvil award-winning public relations campaign to vindicate two scapegoated 1941 Pearl Harbor Commanders, Adm. Husband Kimmel and Gen. Walter Short,  and restore the reputations. The effort, which was championed by then (then Senator) Joe Biden, earned 3 votes in Congress and effectively changed WWII history.

Let’s Talk PR & More!, hosted by Sherry Goldman, president of the award-winning Goldman Communications Group, is an in-depth conversation on a topic or issue related to public relations and/or a discipline or issue that intersects with PR. Episodes of Let’s Talk PR & More! have covered campaigns run by organizations and companies; profiles of PR, marketing, and media professionals; industry trends; analysis of how PR managed key situations; the media and changing media landscape; digital communications and marketing; strategy; the growing influence of AI, and more. The show airs weekly on WRHU-FM and is also available as a podcast. To comment on the show and/or for more information on the show and/or Sherry Goldman, visit www.goldmanpr.net.