To mark the opening of its new exhibit “Reporting Vietnam,” the Newseum presents a special invitation-only program featuring four veteran journalists who will share their memories of reporting the Vietnam War.
Bob Schieffer was a reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram where he was the first reporter from a Texas newspaper to report from Vietnam. Currently the moderator for “Face the Nation,” he joined CBS in 1969 and covered the Pentagon and the White House during Vietnam.
Peter Arnett reported from Vietnam for the Associated Press from 1962 until the fall of Saigon in 1975 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for his Vietnam reporting. He went on to a long career at CNN.
David Hume Kennerly arrived in Vietnam in 1971 as a photographer for United Press International and won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for his images capturing quieter moments of war. He later became President Gerald R. Ford’s personal photographer.
Margaret Brennan, CBS News State Department correspondent, will moderate the program.
Following the program, members of the Friends of the First Amendment Society, the Corporate Engagement Program, Sustaining Press Pass Members and other VIPs are invited to attend a special reception and view the “Reporting Vietnam” exhibit before it opens to the public on May 22.
Speakers in sequence
* Welcome, Peter Prichard, chairman and CEO, Newseum
* Welcome, David Rhodes, president, CBS News
* Discussion:
--- Moderator, Margaret Brennan, CBS News State Department correspondent
--- Peter Arnett, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter
--- David Hume Kennerly, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer
--- Bob Schieffer, chief Washington correspondent, CBS News, and moderator, "Face the Nation"
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