David Halberstam Getty ImagesMany, like myself, didn't know David Halberstam personally. But many, like myself, grew to a great admiration of his truely dedicated journalistic professionalism, something greatly missing in today's information we receive.
There are some really good professional journalists, in the true sense, still around and others coming of age, but way to many are marginalized to almost obscrurity in what we are being presented as journalism by none professional's and frankly outright propagandists!
I do know that the reporting by Halberstam, and others, back in the sixties, shaped my thinking of Vietnam long before I was sent there in my last year of a four year naval hitch, all shore duty, in '70-'71. I knew what to expect and knew we were going no where in that debacle because of his and their honest reporting.
He will be Greatly Missed!!
Who better to remember or talk about him but those who knew him or the interviews he himself gave, not to mention all the books he wrote.
Below you will find links to some of today's Remembrances of David with links also to a few past interviews and discussions.
Halberstam Dissected America, Good and Bad
Morning Edition, April 24, 2007 · David Halberstam, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, died in a car crash Monday in California. He rose to prominence during the Vietnam War and went on to dissect many of the institutions of America in the second half of the 20th century.
Listen to this mornings discussion Ted Koppel: 'We're Still Hearing the Echoes'
Hear Scott Simon's 1987 Profile of Halberstam
Listen as Reporter Neil Sheehan Remembers a Hard-Working Colleague
The following will take you to the NPR pages where you can find the links to listen.
Halberstam on Iraq
Nov. 15, 2006 Finding Rumsfeld-McNamara Parallels
March 29, 2003 War in Iraq: Halberstam Talks to John Ydstie
Halberstam on Vietnam
Sep. 1, 2004 'Talk of the Nation': How Vietnam Frames Patriotism
Halberstam on American Life
Oct. 24, 2000 Baseball, New York & the Subway Series
June 26, 2002 The Author on 'Firehouse' (with Lynn Neary)
Dec. 29, 2003 'Defining a Nation' (with Bob Edwards)
June 26, 1999 On 'The Best American Sportswriting of the Century' (with Scott Simon)
Jan. 19, 2000 On Michael Jordan and 'Playing for Keeps' (with Linda Wertheimer)
The following was on NPR's - Fresh Air
David Halberstam Remembered
Fresh Air from WHYY, April 24, 2007 · Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam died yesterday from injuries sustained in a car crash. He was 73. We revisit his Fresh Air interviews from 1985, from 1993, and from 1999.
Than we have this very touching and interesting interview on NPR's Here and Now
David Halberstam
Story aired: Tuesday, April 24, 2007
We remember journalist David Halberstam who died yesterday in a car crash. Vietnamese translator Cong Tran served as Halberstam's translator when the journalist returned to Vietnam after the war to find where his wartime colleagues were buried.
This, on the NPR show All Things Considered was aired later in the day and as you can see the Audio will be up approx. at 7:30pm.
An Essay on the Late David Halberstam
by Scott Simon
Audio for this story will be available at approx. 7:30 p.m. ET
All Things Considered, April 24, 2007 · David Halberstam loved old jocks, young reporters, grizzled veterans, and fresh faces. When you gathered around the huge round table in his apartment, you would meet retired generals, young phenoms, and enduring friends.
The following will be on The News Hour tonight, a link to listen will follow sometime after airing.
The News Hour - PBS
The NewsHour remembers reporter and writer David Halberstam, who died in a car accident on Monday. Then, Jeffrey Brown speaks with Gay Talese, a best-selling author of many books who was also a personal friend and former colleague of Halberstam's.
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