EDITH LEDERER ADDRESSES A MEETING OF CORRESPONDENTS FROM BOTH SIDES WHO COVERED THE VIETNAM WAR скачать в хорошем качестве

EDITH LEDERER ADDRESSES A MEETING OF CORRESPONDENTS FROM BOTH SIDES WHO COVERED THE VIETNAM WAR

The event was part of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War which saw the reunification of the country. In 1971, Edith, then based in San Francisco, visited the Associated Press bureau in Vietnam as part of an around-the-world trip. Though the AP foreign editor at the time was not in favor of women covering wars and disasters, Lederer received an invitation from the president of the AP to cover the war in Vietnam and spent nine months there in 1972-73, becoming the first woman assigned full-time to the AP staff reporting the Vietnam War. Edith wrote about her experiences in Vietnam in War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Who Covered Vietnam, which was published in 2002. She addressed the journalists’ gathering at the Caravelle Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City about her time as a war correspondent on April 27.