FORA.tv Speaker - Seymour M. Hersh

Seymour M. Hersh is one of America's premier investigative reporters. In 1969, as a freelance journalist, he wrote the first account of the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam. In the 1970s, he worked at the New York Times in Washington and New York; he has rejoined the paper twice on special assignment. He has won more than a dozen major journalism prizes, including the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and four George Polk Awards. He is also the author of six books, including "The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times BookAward, "The Target Is Destroyed: What Really Happened to Flight 007" and What America Knew About It," and "The Samson Option: Israels Nuclear Arsenal" and "Americas Foreign Policy."