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Pulitzer-Winning War Correspondent Peter Arnett Dies at 91 in California

His Pulitzer-winning Vietnam dispatches later gave way to era-defining live reports from Baghdad.

Peter Arnett, Korrespondent der Associated Press, links, marschiert mit vietnamesischen Truppen in Vietnam, 11. November 1965. Reporterlegende Peter Arnett ist im Alter von 91 Jahren in Kalifornien gestorben.
Peter Arnett starb im Alter von 91 Jahren.
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Peter Arnett

Overview

  • He died Wednesday in Newport Beach after a long battle with prostate cancer, according to his son, with family and friends at his side.
  • The New Zealand–born reporter covered the Vietnam War for AP from 1962 to 1975, earning the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for dispatches that often challenged official U.S. accounts.
  • He gained global recognition in 1991 by staying in Baghdad for CNN and broadcasting the opening bombardment of the Gulf War live from his hotel.
  • Arnett secured rare interviews with Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, and later exited CNN in 1999 and NBC in 2003 following a retracted report and an Iraqi state TV interview.
  • In later years he taught journalism at China’s Shantou University before retiring to Southern California, and colleagues including AP’s Edith Lederer and photographer Nick Ut praised him as one of his generation’s greatest war correspondents.