US EditionPulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War, has died
Peter Arnett reported from Vietnam to the Gulf Wars, earning the 1966 Pulitzer Prize and interviewing Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden during a 40-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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Winston-Salem JournalPulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Arnett dies
LOS ANGELES — 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, died Wednesday at 91.
Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent dies at 91
LOS ANGELES — 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 the age…
Pulitzer Prize for Reportage from Vietnam announced first bombs on Baghdad
American journalist Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent decades dodging bullets to provide the world with reports on the war in Vietnam and the deserts of Iraq, as well as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has died at the age of 92.
Peter Arnett, one of the most influential war correspondents of the 20th century, died at 91 years after his health condition worsened in the last few days due to pancreatic cancer. His name was forever linked to some of the most decisive conflicts in recent history, from the Vietnam War to the two Gulf wars.Keep reading....
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