US EditionPulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War, has died
Peter Arnett, 1966 Pulitzer Prize winner, reported from Vietnam to Iraq and secured exclusive interviews with Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden during a 60-year career.
- On Wednesday, Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent, died in Newport Beach after entering hospice Saturday due to prostate cancer.
- Arnett joined The Associated Press as its Indonesia correspondent and arrived in Vietnam a year later; he remained with the AP until joining CNN and became a household name after live first Gulf War broadcasts.
- He broadcast live by cellphone amid missile strikes in Baghdad while many Western reporters had fled, and he survived dangerous combat in Vietnam where four shots tore through a map inches from his face.
- He resigned from CNN after the network retracted an investigative report he narrated and was fired while covering the second Gulf War for granting an interview to Iraqi state TV.
- His legacy includes a memoir and archived reporting; Arnett published Live From the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 Years in the World's War Zones and taught journalism at Shantou University before retiring to Fountain Valley, California with his wife Nina Nguyen.
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Peter Arnett, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, who is among the best known war reporters, died at 91 years of age. His son Andrew announced it. Arnett died...
Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War, has died
Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at 91.
The New Zealand-American correspondent for AP and CNN was known for his coverage of the Vietnam War and the Gulf War.
Peter Arnett, Pulitzer-Winning War Correspondent, Dies at 91
Peter Arnett, an intrepid Associated Press combat correspondent who won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Vietnam War and became one of the world's best-known television reporters on the scene of wars and insurrections for 18 years with CNN,…
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