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Upon graduation, Halberstam accepted a low-paying job as a staff writer for the Daily Times Leader in Mississippi and left Harvard to journey to the South to cover race relations...
Born April 10, 1934 in the Bronx, N.Y., Halberstam followed his brother Michael to Harvard in 1951 and joined the paper that year, soon proving himself to be an intrepid and astute journalist...
Described as “ferocious,” Halberstam soon become “the spine of the newspaper” the year he was managing editor, according to Langguth. And even after his tenure came to an end, “he was one of those people who couldn’t stay away,” said former New York Times reporter Adam Clymer...
Halberstam’s time with the Times Leader ended abruptly when he was fired for his coverage of the Civil Rights movement after only one year, according to his wife, Jean Halberstam. He went on to work at the Nashville Tennessean, a job which his wife said he loved...
...Halberstam eventually left The Tennessean to take a job with The New York Times. After serving as a foreign correspondent in Africa, Halberstam was sent to Vietnam to cover the ongoing conflict, making him one of the first full-time Western newspaper journalists working in the country. His coverage of the war and the overthrow of the Diem government won him the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. But this coverage also drew death threats from those opposed to his unflattering depictions of American involvement in Vietnam...