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...It’s obvious that he was probably the greatest journalist of his generation. He had a core integrity that gave him credibility and power, whether he was writing about basketball or Vietnam it carried an enormous amount of weight,” said Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist J. Anthony Lewis ’48, a former Crimson managing editor. “He was a sweet man—loyal, kind, thoughtful. I just didn’t know anybody who is a better representation of journalism...
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...
...wrote very important news stories out of Vietnam showing some of the frustration and failures of military operations,” said George S. Abrams ’54, who served as managing editor of The Crimson the year before Halberstam...
...angered President Kennedy, who asked the New York Times to change his assignment and move him out of Vietnam,” Abrams said. “But The Times continued to let him cover Vietnam...
Halberstam, who died today in a car crash south of San Francisco at age 73, will be remembered for what he learned post-graduation—in particular, what he learned about the Vietnam War, and what he relayed to the American people through his Pulitzer Prize-winning dispatches for the New York Times. But at The Crimson, he will also be remembered as "a very good college journalist"—unarguably one of the best and the brightest to pass through the paper in its 134-year history...