Killed by Japanese machine gun fire, this reporter won a Pulitzer for his wartime reporting
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10 Extraordinary Quotes About War From Ernie Pyle - Task & Purpose  Apr 17, 2015 ... Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ernie Pyle spent his last years embedded ... In 1944, Pyle won a Pulitzer Prize for his war coverage. On April 18, 1945, he was killed instantly by Japanese machine gun fire on the Pacific island of Ie ... War and Brave Men, which were compiled from his wartime columns,...
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Ernie Pyle facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Make research projects and school reports about Ernie Pyle easy with ... in 1923 he quit college to take a job as a cub reporter on the La Porte (Indiana) Herald-Argus. ... as the basis for a motion picture on Pyle's wartime career entitled "Gl Joe. ... Ernie Pyle was hit by a Japanese machine-gun bullet in his left temple.
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Ernie Pyle killed at Okinawa - Apr 18, 1945 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Ernie Pyle killed at Okinawa on Apr 18, 1945. ... Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese machine-gun fire on the .... defies the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V by refusing to recant his writings. ... The now-famous Tokyo Raid did little real damage to Japan (wartime Premier...
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Ernie Pyle - Wikipedia  Iejima, Japan. Occupation, Journalist. Spouse(s), Geraldine "Jerry" Siebolds(19251945, his death). Parent(s), William Clyde Pyle and Maria Taylor. Ernest Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900  April 18, 1945) was a Pulitzer Prizewinning American journalist. ... He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his spare, poignant accounts of...
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Journalist Ernie Pyle killed - Apr 18, 1945 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Journalist Ernie Pyle killed on Apr 18, 1945. ... America's most popular war correspondent, is killed by Japanese machine-gun fire on the island of ... The same year, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished ... After his death, President Harry S. Truman spoke of how Pyle told the story of the...
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Interesting information on war in the Pacific - WWII Forums  This was the first time that any Japanese emperor had ever spoken to ... The news of the attack on Tokyo gave a great boost to American ... And on that occasion a violent storm had turned back and devastated the Mongol invader's fleet; the Japanese called the magical occurrence kamikaze--"divine wind."
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Reporting America at War . About the Series . Episode Two ... - PBS  MORLEY SAFER: Well, it was I guess the forties version of sex, drugs and rock n' roll! ... The greatest work in journalism is often done during war. .... NARRATOR: And though reporters were arriving in Korea daily, no official press policy ... DAVID HALBERSTAM: He was not, as so many journalist are, a morally neutral man.
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Juror helps a friend, leading to 'iniquitous' result - The Pulitzer Prizes  In 1925, the contest for the fiction (then novel) Pulitzer was tense. Edna Ferber's 'So Big' was declared the winner, but one juror was so infuriated ... His 1922 editorial on free speech, To an Anxious Friend, won a Pulitzer Prize. ... She was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1885 and began her career as a reporter in Wisconsin.
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J! Archive - Show #1230, aired 1989-12-29  He survived a May 1972 assassination attempt in Laurel, Maryland. $100, 25. During WWII he was head of the Kuomintang party & commander of the Chinese...
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Jack London: The Adventurer-Writer who Chronicled Asian Wars ...  Jan 25, 2010 ... The Russo-Japanese War saw Japan alter the world balance of power that the West ... The Hearst newspapers stridently warned of the yellow peril. ... a fellow journalist with London during the Russo-Japanese war, as saying that .... at Wiju; but they served another purposefirst, farther down the stream.
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About Us | Sacbee.com & The Sacramento Bee  It was awarded its first Pulitzer Prize in 1935 for Public Service. ... were both recognized in 1992, when the paper won two more Pulitzer Prizes - including another ... "Majesty and Tragedy: The Sierra in Peril," by environment reporter Tom Knudson. ... This time it was for a series of editorials by associate editor Tom Philp that...
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This Medal of Honor recipient just turned 82. You'll be stunned by ...  Feb 3, 2016 ... When Adkins and his group of defenders came under heavy small arms fire ... a seriously wounded American and draw fire all the while successfully covering the rescue. ... fighting with mortars, machine guns, recoilless rifles, small arms, and ... mission to make sure Adkins received the honor he was due.
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History News Network | The Pacific, Bloody Mary and World War II ...  Apr 27, 2014 ... He holds his PhD from Rutgers and was a former editor for the New York Daily News. ... South Pacific is the tale of a backwash island in the New Hebrides where ... Love with a Wonderful Guy, Younger than Springtime and Happy Talk. ... Michener was a Lt. Commander in the New Hebrides in World War II.
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Seymour Hersh - Wikipedia  Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American investigative journalist and ... In 1993 Hersh became a regular contributor to The New Yorker. ... Hersh wrote about the massacre and its cover-up in My Lai 4: A Report on the ..... His journalism and publishing awards include the 1970 Pulitzer Prize, the 2004...
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Obama, U.S. media lied about Syrian nerve gas  Workers World  Dec 17, 2013 ... Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour M. Hersh has written a ... Hersh gained worldwide fame for exposing the My Lai massacre and cover-up in Vietnam in 1969. ... in Iraq directed by the U.S. military, the CIA and private contractors. ... not be as earlier reported, the New York Times failed to report this.
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Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1975 (Library of ...  Jun 28, 2000 ... A unique collection captures a dramatic and controversial war and the brilliant .... Reporting Vietnam follows events from the first American fatalities in 1959 ... Here are Homer Bigart, David Halberstam, Stanley Karnow, and Neil ... Reporting Vietnam collects the best writing and reportage from the war into...
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting - Wikipedia  This Pulitzer Prize has been awarded since 1942 for a distinguished example of reporting on ... 1957: Russell Jones, United Press, "for his excellent and sustained coverage of the Hungarian revolt against ... Budapest and gave front-line eyewitness reports of the ruthless Soviet repression of the Hungarian people.
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Barbara Tuchman Dead at 77 - A Pulitzer-Winning Historian ...  Feb 7, 1989 ... Barbara W. Tuchman, whose skill at writing histories of men at war and on the brink of war won her two Pulitzer Prizes, died of complications of ... the background and beginning of World War I, that made her a celebrity after it came out ... salutes, a durable niche on best-seller lists and her first Pulitzer Prize.
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Nation & World | A last look at noteworthy people who died in 2004 ...  Jan 2, 2005 ... Colorful journalist; editor of the New York Post, later vice president and .... oil-field firefighter, inspired John Wayne film "Hellfighters." Aug. 7.
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AP-apologizes-for-firing-reporter-over-WWII-scoop - Associated Press  May 4, 2012 ... AP apologizes for firing reporter over WWII scoop ... correspondent Edward Kennedy gave his news agency perhaps the biggest scoop in its history. He reported, a full day ahead of the competition, that the Germans had surrendered ... But after the surrender was complete, the embargo was extended for 36...
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The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning History of the First ...  The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning History of the First Month of ... Winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and ... With fine attention to detail, she reveals how and why the war started and why it could have been...