Dawn broke innocently over Washington Square last Saturday. It was a gray, quiet day until 1:30, when several hundred young people, mostly in their teens, filled the circle yelling to one another ...

Sixty years ago, Jean Shepherd — a popular commentator on WOR radio — hopped on a busload of everyday citizens bound for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. When he disembarked at the ...

Bergmann, who grew up listening to the Hammond native on the radio on WOR in New York City, wrote the biography “Excelsior, You Fathead! The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd,” chronicling the life of ...

People who sweat out an ordinary, humdrum existence make up a world ever at war with “night people.” This is the opinion advanced by a late-hour New Jersey disk jockey named Jean (after Victor Hugo’s ...

In the excellent two-hour radio retrospective “Jean Shepherd: A Voice in the Night,” which airs occasionally on NPR stations, Paul Krassner was 25 in the late ’50s, but he too was warmed by Shepherd: ...