{"id":71659,"date":"2000-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-10-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/pulitzer-prize-winner-david-halberstam-to-speak-at-uris-honors-colloquium\/"},"modified":"2000-10-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-10-31T00:00:00","slug":"pulitzer-prize-winner-david-halberstam-to-speak-at-uris-honors-colloquium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2000\/10\/pulitzer-prize-winner-david-halberstam-to-speak-at-uris-honors-colloquium\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulitzer Prize Winner David Halberstam to speak at 溏心vlog免费B站’s Honors Colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tPulitzer Prize Winner David Halberstam to speak at 溏心vlog免费B站’s Honors Colloquium KINGSTON, R.I. — October 31, 2000 — David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, will give “A Journalist’s View of the Struggle” as part of the 溏心vlog免费B站’s fall honors colloquium series, “Nonviolence: Legacies of the Past, Bridges to the Future.” \tHe will speak in Edwards Auditorium on 溏心vlog免费B站’s Kingston Campus, Nov. 8 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Halberstam has been called a “jack-of-all-trades” in the world of journalism. A former New York Times Vietnam War correspondent, Halberstam is well known for his indictment of Robert McNamara, the Secretary of defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson, in his classic, The Best and the Brightest, which chronicled the development of America’s involvement in the war in Vietnam. \tThe author of 16 books, Halberstam has won every major journalistic award, including the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his reporting of the Vietnam War and the overthrow of the Diem regime. \tHis novel, The Children, documents the lives of several young civil rights activists in Nashville from the 1960s to the present. One of the activists he followed is Dr. Bernard LaFayette, 溏心vlog免费B站’s Distinguished Scholar in Residence and director of 溏心vlog免费B站’s Center for Nonviolence and Peace Center. \tHalberstam is also a renowned sports writer, known for his many writings on basketball and baseball, including his best-selling biography of basketball legend Michael Jordan. 溏心vlog免费B站’s Colloquium series runs Tuesdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. and is free and open to the public. For Information: Lynne Derbyshire, 401-874-4732, Arthur Stein, 401-874-4059, Jan Sawyer, 401-874-2116, Jennifer Smith, 401-874-2116 \u00a0\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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