Goodbye to Peter Arnett, the reporter who lined the Gulf War | EUROtoday

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Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of many best-known struggle reporters, has died at 91. His son Andrew introduced it. Arnett is died from prostate most cancers.

Born November 13, 1934 in Riverton, New Zealand, iThe journalist gained the Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for his protection of the Vietnam War per l’Associated Press.

However, he has develop into a well-known title in 1991, following updates from Iraq throughout the first Gulf War for CNN. Arnett remained in Baghdad whereas almost all Western journalists had left the capital within the days earlier than the U.S.-led assault. When the missiles started to fall, he broadcast a dwell report from his mobile phone from his lodge room.

Arnett in Vietnam

Arnett arrived in Vietnam a 12 months after becoming a member of the AP as an Indonesia correspondent. This task was short-lived, as after reporting that the nation’s economic system was in ruins, the enraged management in Jakarta expelled him.

At the AP headquarters in Saigon in 1962, Arnett discovered himself surrounded by a formidable crew of journaliststogether with bureau chief Malcolm Browne and photographer-editor Horst Faas, who collectively would win three Pulitzer Prizes.