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This article is a partial list of journalists killed and missing during the Vietnam War.The press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders tallied 63 journalists who died over a 20-year period ending in 1975 while covering the Vietnam War with the caveat that media workers were not typically counted at the time.
The first of five Vietnamese journalists to be murdered, Duong Trong Lam was shot by an assassin July 21, 1981. He was known as a "left-wing" publisher of Cai Dinh Lang (Translated: The Village Temple), a Vietnamese-language newspaper published in San Francisco, California, and for his criticism of the Vietnam War.
Joseph L. Galloway. Joseph Lee Galloway (November 13, 1941 – August 18, 2021) was an American newspaper correspondent and columnist. During the Vietnam War, he often worked alongside the American troops he covered and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal in 1998 for having carried a badly wounded man to safety while he was under very heavy enemy ...
First journalist to be killed during the U.S. Civil War. Killed by a cannonball fire while covering the Battle of Shiloh and General Ulysses S. Grant. [20] June 23, 1863: Lynde Walter Buckingham: New York Herald: Aldie, Virginia: Killed as a result of an ambush during the U.S. Civil War. He was buried at the Mount Zion Old School Baptist Church ...
After the Vietnam War ended in 1975, there was an increase in American films that were more "raw,” containing actual battle footage. A FilmReference.com article noted that American filmmakers "appeared more confident to put Vietnam combat on screen for the first time" during that era. [1]
The unsolved murder of CBS News journalist George Polk in May 1948 has all the elements of a cover-up. The Fort Worth native’s sudden disappearance from the city of Thessaloniki, Greece, a few ...
2. Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. ( / ˈræðər /; born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist, commentator, and former national evening news anchor. He began his career in Texas, becoming a national name after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla in September 1961. In his first national broadcast, he helped initiate the ...
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