Peter Jedick’s career as a best-selling author and historian spans several decades. On a national scale, he has authored five books and has written for several national magazines including NEWSMAX, America in World War II and Baseball America. As a local writer in Northeast Ohio, he has written for every major news organization including the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland Magazine, Sun Newspapers and The Cleveland Press.
The recipient of an Excellence in Journalism award from the Press Club of Cleveland, Jedick has been interviewed and recognized by numerous TV and radio shows. He also had a stint as an award-winning radio commentator for WKSU-FM, an NPR (National Public Radio) station.
Speaking Engagements
“Peter Jedick brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. His on-air presentation is competent and compelling.” — Jim McIntyre, Former News Director at WHK, WDOK, WERE and WWWE in Cleveland, Ohio
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PETER JEDICK’S TWO NATIONAL TELEVISION APPEARANCES
ON NEWSMAX TV
Peter Jedick discusses his father’s D-Day experiences on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, June 6th, 2024. His father, also Peter Jedick, was a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division. (5:13)
Peter Jedick Discusses His NEWSMAX Magazine Story, “A D-Day Prayer Is Answered” and President Ronald Reagan. June 5, 2023. (PS. The President Reagan questions were last minute additions.) (4:31)
AMAC MAGAZINE’S “MEMBER SPOTLIGHT” STORY ON PETER JEDICK
(December 2024)
For many Americans, the late 19th century seems like a distant part of our history, more familiar to us through recent shows like The Gilded Age than through the stories of family folklore. But it’s not as far-removed as we often think. For many Baby Boomers, of which there are more than 76 million in the United States, their grandparents were born before the turn of the 20th century. AMAC member Peter Jedick, named after his grandfather, is among them.
Peter Jedick talks “Hippies”
Cleveland Improv Comedy Workshop
July 13, 2022 (7:22)
Peter Jedick talks “Westport”
Cleveland Improv Comedy Workshop
April 13, 2022 (5:50)
Peter Jedick talks “West Tech.”
Cleveland Improv Comedy Workshop
October 19, 2022 (6:32)
Peter Jedick Explains His Self-Publishing
Career to the Cleveland Rowfant Club
10-26-2022 (48:47)
Peter Jedick Interviews Tom Hanks
Via Zoom for 1st Team Actors Studio Class
Cleveland Capitol Theatre 11-22-2022 (5:32)
Peter Jedick discusses his Writing Career with Ray Carr The Cleveland State University radio station, WCSB 89.3 FM July 5, 2022. (49:47)
WHY AMERICA IS BANKRUPT
Who Did It and How to Fix It
by Peter Jedick
America is in trouble. Our massive national debt is eating up our country’s wealth at an alarming rate. Best-selling author and historian Peter Jedick uses examples from his various careers as a professional fireman, substitute teacher and cab driver to explain in simple terms how over the last 50 years President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” bankrupted America while destroying our inner-city neighborhoods. As our national debt and our national poverty rate both soar to historic heights, Jedick offers a wide range of innovative ideas on how to fix our broken political system.
HIPPIES
A Kent State Love Story
by Peter Jedick
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio the 1969-70 school year. Senior Matt Kubik is having a pretty groovy time sharing an off-campus duplex with three quirky guys and four far out hippie chicks. His only goal is to find true love and romance. That is, until an anti-Vietnam War protest goes haywire and puts all of their lives in danger. The rest is history.
THE WEST TECH TERRORIST
A World War II Mystery Romance Novel
by Peter Jedick
The West Tech Terrorist is a mystery romance novel that provides a taste of the home front during World War II America. It is the fall of 1941 at Cleveland’s West Technical High School, one of the largest and most unique high schools in America. The United States is on the brink of World War II. Victor Blazek, the sports editor of the West Tech school newspaper, and his girlfriend, Doris, try to foil a sinister plot by Nazi sympathizers inside the school. But their attempt as amateur sleuths puts both their lives in danger.
Fire Fighting Career
LEGENDARY RADIO ANNOUNCER PAUL HARVEY EXPLAINS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A FIRE FIGHTER: THE BEST JOB EVER.
Lt. Pete Jedick on a typical day at the CFD
Peter Jedick was hired as a city of Cleveland fire fighter in November, 1982. He stayed on the department for 32 years. His first assignment coming out of the Fire Training Academy was on Rescue Squad 3 at Fire Station 22 on East 63rd and Superior Avenue.
His first day on the job RS3 responded to four house fires and a few medical emergencies. He quickly learned why RS3 was the busiest fire company between New York City and Chicago.
Eventually he found a permanent home on Hook and Ladder 17 at Fire Station 17 on East 66th and Chester Avenue where the standard operating procedure was similar to Rescue Squad 3, a working fire almost every 24 hour shift.
During his career Lt. Jedick tackled a few other projects, including editing a Union Newspaper, “The Journal,” and starting a Fire Museum in Fire Station #28 on the corner of Carnegie and Ontario Avenues. (See its website: www.wrfmc.com) But his proudest accomplishment was creating a memorial to the Cleveland Fire Fighters who died in the line of duty as the President of the Cleveland Fire Fighters Memorial Fund, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. (See www.clevelandfirememorial.com/our-history/)
Cadet fire fighter Pete Jedick (L-17) explains how to use an air mask.
Peter Jedick explains the campaign to repair the Cleveland Fire Fighters memorial
Cleveland.com June 12, 2017
(PS We raised the funds and repaired the cracks in the Memorial. Thanks to everyone who contributed.)
