Montgomery History will honor journalist Connie Chung with a new oral history studio when it opens its new Montgomery History Center in downtown Rockville on September 6.
The Connie Chung Oral History Studio will be housed inside the historic Farmers Banking & Trust building at Courthouse Square, where Montgomery History is creating a new center for exhibits, lectures, and the Jane Sween Library and Special Collections. The organization, founded in 1944, is in the middle of a $12 million capital campaign for the project.
Chung, a Montgomery County broadcasting icon, attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring and the University of Maryland in College Park. She became the first woman to co-anchor the CBS Evening News and the first Asian American to anchor a network news program. She is also the author of Connie: A Memoir, which was released in 2024…