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Monday, April 23, 2007

Halberstam killed in auto accident

This is truly awful news.
David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled the Washington press corps, the Vietnam War generation and baseball, was killed in a car crash early Monday, a coroner said. He was 73.

Halberstam, a New Yorker, was a passenger in a car that was broadsided by another vehicle near in Menlo Park, San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said.
Halberstam was a giant of American journalism and American history. From The Best and the Brightest to The Fifties, to name just a couple of his outstanding works, Halberstam helped us understand our world and our country.

His wisdom, insight and humor will be terribly missed. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and many, many friends and admirers.

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