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Tom Cassidy
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Significantly, he was the Cable News Network business news anchor during Black Monday, 19 October 1987. This was a famous day on Wall Street when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell 508 points to 1739, a frightening drop during which time Cassidy"s ongoing reporting during the afternoon and evening provided both credible information and a significant calmness to the American public. Diagnosed as Human Immunodeficiency Virus positive the same day, Cassidy went public on New York area television on an ongoing basis with his dilemma, treatment and progress (including revealing his diagnosis to his family on camera) in order to better educate the public about Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome disease.
As Cassidy was a 1972 graduate of Bowdoin College, his will endowed Bowdoin with a lectureship in which prominent working journalists give lectures on a wide variety of topics each year.
Thomas J. Cassidy lecturers at Bowdoin have included: Lou Dobbs of Cable News Network. Linda Wertheimer of National Public Radio.
Andrew Serwer of Fortune Magazine. And Amanda Griscom Little, environmental writer for The New York Times and The Washington Post.
