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| Reporter who had big boots to fill, went to Vietnam after Homer Bigart. Wrote negatively of U.S war effort in Vietnam. |
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| Worked for NBC, 1st full time tv newsman stationed in Vietnam. Was followed by Morley Safer. |
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| NBC, early newsman in Vietnam. Said Diem gave boring interviews, was thrown out of South Vietnam. Snazzy dresser. |
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| Didn't like combat too much. First to cover Vietnam, but not full time. |
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Followed Garrick Utley. Was a Canadian. Major foundations of 60 Minutes. Vietnam correspondent for CBS. His most famous broadcast when he covered the U.S. Marines burning down the village of Cam Ne.
He was against the war effort and briefly banned. |
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| Village torched by the U.S. marines. 50 dwellings were burnt. Controversial because some marines thought it was not fully covered. Marines said that the huts could be hiding tunnels of the Viet Cong. |
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| 1962 reporter in Vietnam, Associated Press. Spent 13 years in Vietnam. Stayed in Vietnam for the fall of Saigon |
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| Wrote "a bright shinning lie" about vietnam. Broke the story of the Pentagon Papers to the NY Times |
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Ran Associated Press photo operation. Was called a murderer because one of his men died.He had more time in combat than any other photographer.
Wounded by shrapenel, captured in Africa, ate his own press pass to stay alive. |
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| Former Marine. "toughest of them all." Always carried weapons with him, saved a wounded man and received a medal for bravery. Not against Vietnam, didn't like how it was conducted. Quit Time b/c his stories were being changed-went to NY Times. |
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| Most eccentric in Vietnam.Joined French resistance, stayed in Vietnam and covered Dienbienphu. Thrown out of Vietnam for writing badly about fighters.Accused of being an Opium smuggler. Jumped out helicopter to his death. |
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| NY Times; got ability to go to N. Vietnam, 1st journalist to do so. Ran articles or U.S. bombing in N. Vietnam, destruction in civilian areas. Called "Harrison Appaulsbury" criticized by other journalists. |
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| Took picture of General Loan shooting Vietnamese civilian. Won Pulitzer prize. |
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| Fired gun at point blank range killing North Vietnamese civilian. |
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| Began late January 1968. 2 month time period. Lunar new year in Vietnam, always a truce that fighting would stop at that time. Jan 21, N. Vietnam attacked Khe Sanh, Hue, and U.S Embassy in Saigon. From then on U.S. talked about how to end/get out of war. |
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| Historical city, off limits, attacked by North Vietnamese |
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| Base in South Vietnam. Well supplied, never got overran. Similar to Dienbienphu. |
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| "Dean" of TV newsman, most powerful newsman, analysis of Vietnam. |
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| Brother of photographer that died while working for Horst Faas. Shot photo of girl naked in the street. Stayed in touch with her. |
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| March 16, 1968. Just as Tet offensive wound down. My Lai, small village off coast of S. Vietnam, 700 people, nick named Pinkville. Charley Company went in, killed 500 civilians, women/children/babies. |
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| Pilot of scout helicopter during My Lai.Witnessed the civilians being killed, told Lt. Calley to stop, saved civilians. |
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| Seen as a joke. "Lt. Shithead." Accused of killing over 100 villagers in My Lai. Charged with life sentence, hard labor, then house arrest for 3 years, then paroled. |
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| Silver star. Gave order to kill every living thing in My Lai. "Open season when you leave nothing should be walking." Said he never said anything about women and children. |
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| said "The first casualty when war comes, is truth" |
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| Former marine. CBS newsman. First coverage of Dienbienphu. Covered collapse of S. Vietnam. |
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| Took 1st step. First and greatest war correspondent. His coverage or Crimean war in the 1850s marked beginning of organized effort to report a war to the civilian population. Liked to dress up, made his own uniform. Account of war poem "Charge of the Light Brigade." |
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| Shot photo of the 2nd flag raising at Iwo Jima. Won Pulitzer prize for it. Couldn't join army due to his poor eyesight. Worked at associated press. |
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| took picture of initial flag raising at Iwo Jima. |
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| February 1945. Island near Japan, crucial air base. 1st Japanese territory to be captured by U.S. 35 day campaign. U.S. Marines won 27 medals of Honor. Most medals given in any 1 battle in history. |
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| Soldier and reporter during American Revolution. Wrote for Massachusetts spy-his newspaper. |
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| Killed at Battle of Little Bighorn |
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| Captured his own town in Puerto Rico during Spanish American War. |
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| wrote for Alpaso Texas Times. Went along side General Black Jack Pershing in search of Pancho Villa, became friends and got exclusive stories. Not accredited and thrown out of WWI.Covered Russian Revolution-1st woman to be an accredited war correspondent. |
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| Chicago Tribune. WWI correspondent. Dreamed of being on a ship sunk by German submarines to write about it-came true. |
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| Married to Martha Gellhorn. Covered Spanish Civil War 7 WWII. Was seen as a soldier. |
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| Married to Ernest Hemmingway. Covered Spanish Civil War and WWII. Had to get the truth out. Got to beaches of Normandy. |
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| Pacifist, hated war. Took photo of the "falling soldier" it ran in Life magazine. Covered beaches of Normandy |
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| 1950s TV newsman, always smoking. WW2- in charge of CBS radio of Europe. Broadcasted from Bechenwald concentration camp. |
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| 1st woman to get Pulitzer Prize. Aggressive, popular, got to Dachau before Gellhorn. Germans surrendered to Higgins, "liberated" prison camp. |
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| Home town reporter. Common soldiers favorite reporter. most read journalist of WWII |
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| 2 time Pulitzer prize winner. WWII & Korea. Fired wildly in a bomber, thinks he shot down a fellow plane. Bombing run in Japan, surrendered but kept dropping bombs. |
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| 1 of the 17 journalists that witnessed surrender of Nazis, let out the news a day before it was supposed to. Lost credentials because of it. "The most disgraceful, deliberate and unethical double-cross in the history of journalism." |
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| Photographer. spent 3 1/2 years in Vietnam. |
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| One of the reporters to stay and shoot the fall of Saigon |
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| Nationalist. Wanted to meet Wilson, made own list of 8 points. Wanted a free Vietnam. Reached out and sent a message to Truman asking to be liberated from the French, suggesting to make Vietnam a protectorate of the U.S. Got no response. |
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| Written by Woodrow Wilson that all colonies had right of self determination. |
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| Fighters of Ho Chi Minh. Known as VietCong in Vietnam War. |
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| President during beginning of Vietnam. Ignored request by Ho Chi Minh. Assisted French military. |
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| 1946-1954. Between French and Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh. |
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| March-May. French created base there to lure in Vietminh to attack them. Poor execution, placed guns in the valley, Vietminh set up on ridge and fired down at the French. Would get the air drops from French. French commander committed suicide. |
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| The spoken use of Atomic bombs to help the French at Dienbienphu, never happened. |
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| 1954. Ended the French Indochina war. French would withdraw, temporary line at 17th parallel separating North/South Vietnam. Presidential elections supposed to be helped, never were due to U.S. involvement, thought Ho Chi Minh would win. |
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| President during Dienbienphu. |
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| Theory by Eisenhower that if one country fell to communism all the surrounding countries would as well, like dominoes. |
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| Wrote books on Vietnam. Covered French-Indochina war. "Hell in a very small place" -book about Dienbienphu. |
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| South Vietnamese leader, anti-communist, Catholic. Supported by the U.S. |
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| Diem's brother's wife. 1st lady of South Vietnam. |
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| That 2 U.S. destroyer ships were attacked (no damage was done) Johnson ordered air strikes on N. Vietnam |
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| When congress gave President Johnson "all necessary measures" against North Vietnam. |
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| March 1965. Systematic bombing of the North. |
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| Naked girl running in the street in the photo, shot by Nick Ut. Severely burned. |
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| April 30, 1975. When North Vietnam took over Saigon and ultimately ending the war. Most of U.S. troops already out by that point. |
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| One of the reporters that stayed in Vietnam for the fall of Saigon. |
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| June 1967, secretary of Defense directed his assistant to gather documents related to Vietnam war. left in 1969. Papers were 7,000 pages long |
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| joined U.S. Marine corp, went to Vietnam but saw no combat. By the time he came back, changed his view on war-had to stop it. Slipped pentagon papers to Neil Sheehan who published them. |
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| Photographer at the My Lai Massacre. Had 3 cameras day of the massacre, turned in one, kept the other two for himself. |
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| Soldier in Vietnam. Wrote letters to Pres. Nixon, 23 congressman, prompted investigation on My Lai, story still did not surface publicly. |
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| young journalist, heard rumors of My Lai Massacre, interviewed Lt. Calley, ran dispatch news service out of his garage. Story got attention late October/early November. Pictures were published in Life magazine, sold story to CBS, was put on 60 minutes. |
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| 1st full time correspondent for Associated Press in Vietnam. Took photo of the burning buddist. |
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