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...White House. So what did a reporter report? Well, we had the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin Wall, the space race, the Cuban missile crisis and Bull Connor in Birmingham, Ala . Never saw one of the girls in the Cabinet Room interfering with the President on how to handle Vietnam. In that pre-Geraldo world, the Mimis were a nonstory...
There are many iconic images of the Vietnam War reprinted in Lost over Laos, but only one that made photographer friends of mine wince. It was not Henry Huet's eerie shot of a U.S. paratrooper's corpse being winched up to a medevac helicopter. Nor was it Larry Burrows' celebrated photo of a young soldier weeping for dead colleagues after his first day of bloody combat. No, it was a much simpler photo: of a mangled Leica camera, probably Burrows', unearthed from a Lao hillside where he, Huet and two other legendary combat photographers-Kent Potter and Keisaburo Shimamoto...
...were covering a doomed U.S.-supported offensive into Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail, received a direct hit from enemy antiaircraft fire and plunged burning into the jungle. Chances of survival: almost nil. For Pyle and Faas, a reporter and a photographer who covered the Vietnam War for the Associated Press, this book is both a public tribute and a personal pilgrimage that ultimately leads them to the desolate spot where their much-mourned colleagues perished...
...chapter-size biographies reveal, three of the four photographers not only died in a combat zone but grew up in one. The peerless Burrows, who lived through London's Blitz, would surprise young U.S. Army photographers he worked alongside in Vietnam by always bringing pajamas to the front. The fearless Huet, who grew up in Nazi-occupied France, once returned to Saigon bleeding from a shrapnel wound but famously dropped off his film at his agency's office before seeking treatment. As a boy, Shimamoto watched American B-29 incendiary bombers weave through flak above nighttime Tokyo (a "beautiful sight...
...heroes meet heroes. Irish antiwar activist Caoimhe Butterly didn't spend much time with British war hero Captain James Moulton, but everyone else mixed it up nicely. Nebahat Akkoc, a Kurdish women's-rights advocate in Turkey, was eager to meet Irishwoman Christina Noble, who works with children in Vietnam and Mongolia. It turns out Noble is expanding her work into Akkoc's region, and will be bunking with her when she visits. Noble is also a big fan of Bono, and she beamed at having her picture taken with him. "Thanks for the kiss," she said. "It made...