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NamePeter Arnett
Birth namePeter Gregg Arnett
Birth dateNovember 13, 1934(age 76)
Birth placeRiverton, New Zealand
OccupationJournalist, Anchorman
SpouseNina Nguyen (separated 1983)
ChildrenElsa, Andrew
Notable creditAwarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his work in Vietnam

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Peter Gregg Arnett, ONZM (born November 13, 1934, Riverton, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-American journalist.

Arnett worked for National Geographic magazine, and later for various television networks, most notably CNN. He is well known for his coverage of war, including the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. He was awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his work in Vietnam, where he was present from 1962 to 1975, most of the time reporting for the Associated Press news agency. In 1994, Arnett wrote Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 Years in the World's War Zones. In March 1997, Arnett was able to interview Osama bin Laden. The Journalism School at the Southern Institute of Technology is named after him.

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EventsHue Vesak shootings * Hue chemical attacks * Self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc * Double Seven Day scuffle * Xa Loi Pagoda raids * 1963 South Vietnamese coup (reaction) * Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
PolicyJoint Communique * Cable 243 * Krulak Mendenhall mission * McNamara Taylor mission
Political or
religious figures
Ngo Dinh Diem * Ngo Dinh Nhu * Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu * Ngo Dinh Can * Ngô Đình Thục * Nguyen Ngoc Tho * Nguyen Dinh Thuan * Bui Van Luong * Vu Van Mau * Buu Hoi * Tran Van Chuong * Thich Tri Quang * Thich Quang Duc * Thich Tinh Khiet * Thich Thien Hoa * Frederick Nolting * Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. * Maxwell D. Taylor * Robert McNamara * Victor H. Krulak * Joseph Mendenhall * William Trueheart * Roger Hilsman * Averell Harriman * Michael Forrestal * John F. Kennedy
Military figuresDuong Van Minh * Tran Van Don * Ton That Dinh * Le Van Kim * Nguyen Van Thieu * Pham Ngoc Thao * Tran Kim Tuyen * Tran Thien Khiem * Nguyen Huu Co * Huynh Van Cao * Do Mau * Do Cao Tri * Nguyen Khanh * Nguyen Van Nhung * Le Quang Tung * ARVN Special Forces * Lucien Conein
JournalistsDavid Halberstam * Malcolm Browne * Peter Arnett * Neil Sheehan * Marguerite Higgins

Vietnam War correspondents

Print journalistsR.W. Apple * Peter Arnett * Malcolm Browne * Wilfred Burchett * Dickey Chapelle * Robert Elegant * Gloria Emerson * Bernard Fall * Frances FitzGerald * Joseph Galloway * Martha Gellhorn * Al Gore * David Halberstam * Michael Herr * Seymour Hersh * Marguerite Higgins * Peter Jay * Takeshi Kaikō * Stanley Karnow * Steve Kroft * John Sack * Jonathan Schell * Sydney Schanberg * Neil Sheehan * John Steinbeck IV * Matthew V. Storin * Kate Webb * Richard Tregaskis
PhotojournalistsEddie Adams * Larry Burrows * Robert Capa * Charles Chellapah * David Douglas Duncan * Charles Eggleston * Horst Faas * Sean Flynn * Barbara Gluck * Philip Jones Griffiths * Dirck Halstead * Henri Huet * David Hume Kennerly * Catherine Leroy * Don McCullin * Tim Page * Toshio Sakai * Kyoichi Sawada * Dana Stone * Shigeru Tamura * Neal Ulevich * Nick Ut
Broadcast journalistsMartin Bell * Ed Bradley * Charles Collingwood * Walter Cronkite * Murray Fromson * Bernard Kalb * Peter Kalischer * Douglas Kiker * Steve Kroft * Charles Kuralt * George Lewis * Ike Pappas * John Pilger * Dan Rather * Clete Roberts * Morley Safer * Bob Simon * Richard Threlkeld * Joe Schlesinger * Don Webster



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