Extraordinary work that goes on around the world are from people the public doesnt know much about. Politicians and society tends to be cynical about journalism. I see great courage going on for people servicing what the public needs to know b. Journalists go towards danger when others move away. Journalist have to get involved with all sides of the conflict to get the story. It takes a fearless journalist to kept up and say, you know what, im determined to continue my profession, even though i might have to spend the rest of my life looking over my shoulder. I came here in 2003. I came to cover the u. S. Led invasion. I got here about three weeks before the Bombing Campaign started, and i stayed for the next couple of years, working on and off. I came because i thought the war would be covered heavily in the western media from the position of embedded journalist. You know, if i was going to take any risk at all, i would rather take the risk of telling a story that wasnt being told, an
Theres a lot of brave and extraordinary work that goes on around the world are from people the public doesnt know much about. Politicians and society tends to be cynical about journalism. I see great courage going on for people servicing what the public needs to know b. Journalists go towards danger when others move away. Journalist have to get involved with all sides of the conflict to get the story. It takes a fearless journalist to kept up and say, you know what, im determined to continue my profession, even though i might have to spend the rest of my life looking over my shoulder. I came here in 2003. I came to cover the u. S. Led invasion. I got here about three weeks before the Bombing Campaign started, and i stayed for the next couple of years, working on and off. I came because i thought the war would be covered heavily in the western media from the position of embedded journalist. You know, if i was going to take any risk at all, i would rather take the risk of telling a story
Theres a lot of brave and extraordinary work that goes on around the world are from people the public doesnt know much about. Politicians and society tends to be cynical about journalism. I see great courage going on for people servicing what the public needs to know b. Journalists go towards danger when others move away. Journalist have to get involved with all sides of the conflict to get the story. It takes a fearless journalist to kept up and say, you know what, im determined to continue my profession, even though i might have to spend the rest of my life looking over my shoulder. I came here in 2003. I came to cover the u. S. Led invasion. I got here about three weeks before the Bombing Campaign started, and i stayed for the next couple of years, working on and off. I came because i thought the war would be covered heavily in the western media from the position of embedded journalist. You know, if i was going to take any risk at all, i would rather take the risk of telling a story
Theres a picture of the headquarters. I show you in the photographs here, you can see the way they look at the national what archi. When i say cut and paste, they literally did. You can hold these up and can see what the original plans were. You see which part of the attack plan evolved and what was more important. These are tucked into these folders and theyre all in George Marshalls handwriting. He would write memo to staff and change orders and he was very, very much the architect of the plan. As with everything on the western front, a long wide front, the art artilary was going to play a huge role. This is the map of the village and those red marks are the hand drawn labels. This is the way cantigny looked before the battle. All those what arrows on the let were plugged into the map. Up in the right a french aviator would go, and this was going to be very much a combined armed attack so the artillry was going to have to work together. There would be a bombartmen. This does not show
This event. For the first few minutes we will see a slideshow. Hello, i am tina with book passage. Thank you for coming. I was a child during the vietnam war, really. I was living in turkey while my dad was reporting for armed forces radio. He remembers the war much more vividly than i do. But for both my dads generation and for mine, the war is preserved for our reflection and study. Its history in words and images captured by some of the most impressive journalists on the planet, the Associated Press. Over the time of the vietnam war, ap won 6 Pulitzer Prizes for coverage, or both stories and breaking news photography. Some of the greatest names in war correspondence staffed the ap bureau, malcolm brown, peter arnett, nick ut, george esper, eddie adams, just to name a few. Aps photo coverage from the vietnam war constitutes more than 25,000 images, now it is almost the 50th anniversary of the war and ap has put together the firstever collections of these images to tell the story of t