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...became clear to me that the new great story was going to be Vietnam,” he says...
...Vietnam was “a defining story,” according to Halberstam, and one which demanded a new determination from the press. “The policy was bad....Being a reporter became very important,” he says...
Halberstam left Vietnam in 1964, and quickly got pulled back to covering the escalating racial violence in the South. He remembers being told by his editors at the Times, “Get your ass down to Mississippi, they’ve killed three kids” in reference to the June 21 murders of three civil rights activists who were registering black voters...
Halberstam at this time began to write his first books— “The Making of a Quagmire” about Vietnam and “The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy” about fractious domestic politics—often waking up early in the morning to write before he had to go to work...
...moved to Vanity Fair, but left in 1971 in order to expand one of his pieces about America’s involvement in the Vietnam War into the seminal book “The Best and the Brightest.” The book quickly became a best-seller...