Former AP and CNN correspondent Peter Arnett dead at 91

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Peter Arnett, who reported on the Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died.

apnews.com

He was best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War and the 1991 Gulf War in Iraq.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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.
Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his Vietnam War coverage for The Associated Press, died Wednesday in Newport Beach and was surrounded by friends and family, said his son Andrew Arnett. He had entered hospice on Saturday while suffering from prostate cancer.
As a wire-service correspondent, Arnett was known mostly to fellow journalists when he reported in Vietnam from 1962 until the war’s end in 1975. He became something of a household name in 1991, however, after he broadcast live updates for CNN of the first Gulf War.

 

[FreddyE1977]

My brother and I were just discussing the infamous "Baby Milk Factory" incident during Desert Storm and wondering whatever happened to him. R.I.P.