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Nearly two decades before winning the Pulitzer, Beecher broke the story of the U.S. military’s secret bombing of Cambodia on the front page of the New York Times. The 1969 article, “Raids in Cambodia by U.S. Unprotested,” accurately described the first of the secret B-52 bombing campaigns in Cambodia...
...That was one of the most important stories that I broke in my career,” Beecher says. “It was something Nixon and Kissinger tried to hide from the Congress and the public, and we broke it on page one of the New York Times...
WILLIAM M. BEECHER...
...Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe, William M. Beecher ’55 shared the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting with several other editors at the Globe for “War and Peace in the Nuclear Age,” a special feature about the nuclear arms race. Beecher, who had covered U.S.-Soviet relations in Washington, says he helped formulate the idea for the feature and wrote the 8,000-word lead story for the 56-page Sunday special...
...according to Beecher, the Pulitzer did not have a significant impact on his career. “I had a good career in Washington,” he says. “Having won a Pulitzer didn’t hurt, but I didn’t go around telling news sources that...