Authors Dorothy Fall, Frances Fitzgerald, and Jonathan Schell talk about the media coverage of the Vietnam War and the major U.S. wars that followed it, including the current Iraq War.
The discussion is moderated by Ron Steinman.
Bio
Dorothy Fall
Dorothy Fall is the author of Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar.
Dorothy Fall's husband, journalist and historian Bernard Fall, began covering Vietnam in 1953, during the French occupation, and continued through the early years of the U.S. involvement there. He was killed in Vietnam in 1967.
Frances FitzGerald
Frances FitzGerald is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her book, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), which was met with great acclaim when it was published, and remains one of the most notable books about the Vietnam War. FitzGerald was awarded both a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for the book.
Jonathan Schell
Jonathan Schell, The Nation's peace and disarmament correspondent, is the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute and the author of The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People (Metropolitan) and A Hole in the World, a compilation of his "Letter From Ground Zero" columns, which has just been published by Nation Books.
Ron Stienman
Ron Stienman is an award-winning television journalist and television documentary producer.
He was born in Brooklyn, majored in European history at Lafayette College, and did postgraduate work at NYU.