US EditionPulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War, has died
Peter Arnett won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Vietnam War coverage and became a household name with live Gulf War broadcasts in 1991, reporting from multiple conflict zones.
- On Wednesday, Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent, died in Newport Beach after entering hospice Saturday due to prostate cancer.
- Arnett joined The Associated Press as its Indonesia correspondent and arrived in Vietnam a year later; he remained with the AP until joining CNN and became a household name after live first Gulf War broadcasts.
- He broadcast live by cellphone amid missile strikes in Baghdad while many Western reporters had fled, and he survived dangerous combat in Vietnam where four shots tore through a map inches from his face.
- He resigned from CNN after the network retracted an investigative report he narrated and was fired while covering the second Gulf War for granting an interview to Iraqi state TV.
- His legacy includes a memoir and archived reporting; Arnett published Live From the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 Years in the World's War Zones and taught journalism at Shantou University before retiring to Fountain Valley, California with his wife Nina Nguyen.
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American war reporter Peter Arnett died at the age of 91, which his family reported.
When Operation Desert Storm finally began in January 1991, with its long-awaited air offensive against Iraq, only one Western journalist remained in Baghdad: Peter Arnett. His reporting from Vietnam earned him a Pulitzer Prize, but he became known to the general public as that CNN journalist in Baghdad.
Ninety-one years, winner of the Pulitzer. From Vietnam to Iraq covered the main conflicts and interviewed the protagonists from Bin Laden to Saddam Hussein. A life of legend, with the shadows of accusations that cost him the dismissal from CNN and NBC
He reported on the Vietnam War for AP, contradicted official U.S. representations. As a CNN reporter, he stayed in Baghdad longer during the Gulf War in 1991 than other journalists. Now Peter Arnett died, he became 91 years old.
In the first Gulf War he is sometimes the only journalist in Baghdad and reports live on the telephone of rocket attacks. At the end of the 90s he interviews Osama Bin Laden for the first time for television. Decades before he documents the Vietnam War. Now the legendary US war reporter Peter Arnett died.
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