David Halberstam killed in a car crash

[Kat45]

Don't have a link; just heard it on the CBS news.

[LostinVA]

1. God NO

This is awful!

:cry:

[Disturbed]

David Halberstam Journalist Historian

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David Halberstam is a Journalist, Author, and Historian. His books include The Best and The Brightest, The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, The Children and ...

http://www.roycecarlton.com/speakers/halberstam.html

[leftofthedial]

2. bummer.

anyone who harbors the slightest idealism regarding our political system needs to read "The Best and the Brightest" immediately.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

3. Wikipedia

Has his DOD listed already. Must be true.

[Ghost in the Machine]

4. For those (like me) who don't know who this is....

David Halberstam (born April 10, 1934, died April 23, 2007) was an American journalist and author. His father was a surgeon and his mother a teacher. He was married to Polish-born actress Elzbieta Czyzewska, which led to his expulsion from communist Poland and caused her serious difficulties as well.

Halberstam graduated from Harvard University with a degree in journalism in 1955 and started his career writing for the Daily Times Leader in West Point, Mississippi. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, writing for the Nashville Tennesseean, he covered the beginnings of the American Civil Rights Movement.

In the mid 1960s, Halberstam covered the Vietnam War for the New York Times, where his reporting caused U.S. president John F. Kennedy to request he be transferred to another bureau. In 1963, he received a George Polk Award for his reporting at the New York Times. At the age of 30, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the war. He is interviewed in the 1968 documentary film on the Vietnam War entitled In the Year of the Pig.

Halberstam put an enormous effort into his book about the Vietnam War, The Best and the Brightest. Synthesizing material from dozens of books and many dozens of interviews, Halberstam focused on the odd paradox that those who crafted the U.S. war effort in Vietnam were some of the most intelligent, well-connected and self-confident men in America -- "the best and the brightest" -- and yet those same men were unable to imagine and promote any but a bloody and disastrous course in the Vietnam War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Halberstam

[orpupilofnature57]

5. They already have his death recorded ,Too Bad great writer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Halberstam

[SoCalDem]

6. What a shame.. RIP,, David

I always enjoyed seeing him on BookTV.

[MADem]

7. Jesus, we've lost one of the most important historians of our time. How dreadful. NT

[SoCalDem]

9. It's always tragic when a 'thinker' leaves us.

All their wisdom, not yet put to paper, is gone too :(

[Bunny]

8. Link:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070423/ap_en_ce/obit_halberstam

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SAN FRANCISCO - David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled the Washington press corps, the Vietnam War generation and baseball, was killed in a car crash early Monday, a coroner said. He was 73.

Halberstam, a New Yorker, was a passenger in a car that was broadsided by another vehicle in Menlo Park, south of San Francisco, San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said.

"Looking at the accident and examining him at the scene indicated it's most likely internal injuries," Foucrault said.

The driver of the car carrying Halberstam is a student at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and was taken to Stanford Medical Center. Two others were injured.
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So sad. His brother, a cardiologist, was murdered in Washington DC in 1980. This is such a loss.

[UTUSN]

14. K&R for oh-no n/t

[Cameron27]

10. Tragic loss.

RIP Mr. Halberstam.

[peacefreak]

11. Another voice of intelligence & reason gone.

Boy, the sad days of April just continue. RIP Mr Halberstam.

[MN ChimpH8R]

12. What a shame

"The Best and the Brightest" and "The Powers that Be" are two of the best pieces of history I have ever read. His baseball book, "October 1964" was another winner.

One less great writer and deep thinker in our midst. :-(

[Catshrink]

13. RIP

We've lost a great writer and thinker.

:cry: