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The Women Who Changed War Reporting George Packer In 1966, a young American journalist named Frances FitzGerald began publishing articles from South Vietnam in leading magazines, including this one. She was the unlikeliest of war correspondents—born into immense privilege, a daughter of the high-WASP ascendancy. Her father, Desmond FitzGerald, was a top CIA official; her mother, Marietta Tree, a socialite and liberal activist. FitzGerald was raised with servants and horses, and she had to fend off advances from the likes of Adlai Stevenson (her mother’s lover) and Henry Ki...

Died: January 7, 2021. IT was the early spring of 1971, and there was deep unease within the offices of the Washington Post. The paper’s senior editors had learned that the New York Times was working on an exclusive that would blow the Post out of the water. They began to fear the worst. On Sunday, June 13, as the Post devoted much of its front page to the wedding of Tricia Nixon, President Nixon’s daughter, the New York Times finally revealed its scoop: several pages devoted to a top-secret, 47-volume study of American involvement in the Vietnam War. A team of reporters and edit...

Some of the world's most iconic and legendary photos were taken during a period in time when image color processing wasn't available.

Neil Sheehan, N.Y. Times reporter who obtained Pentagon Papers and chronicled ‘Bright Shining Lie’ of Vietnam, dies at 84 Harrison Smith © AP Reporters David Halberstam of the New York Times, Malcolm Brown of the Associated Press and Neil Sheehan of United Press International chat beside a helicopter in Vietnam in the early to mid-1960s. Neil Sheehan, a tireless chronicler of the Vietnam War who obtained the Pentagon Papers for the New York Times and later received the Pulitzer Prize for his book “A Bright Shining Lie,” a meticulously researched indictment of Amer...

tonight we're covering two events. one of them going on behind us here, the other happening in rough, warm seas to the west of us. isaac has tonight made landfall in plaquemines parish, louisiana. it came ashore well south of new orleans, and now has to churn toward the city of new orleans. it's going to be a very long night. the coastline of louisiana, alabama, mississippi getting pounded and drenched. and it's inescapably the backdrop to mitt romney's big sendoff to the general election, just 70 days from now. his name was officially, in fact, placed in nomination today. we have it...