"There was an explosion right near me, you may have heard, he said in a calm, New Zealand-accented voice moments after the loud boom of a missile strike rattled across the airwaves. As he continued to speak air-raid sirens blared in the background. I think that took out the telecommunications center, he said of another explosion. They are hitting the center of the city."
"As a wire-service correspondent, Arnett was known mostly to fellow journalists when he reported in Vietnam from 1962 until the war's end in 1975. He became something of a household name in 1991, however, after he broadcast live updates for CNN of the first Gulf war. While almost all Western reporters had fled Baghdad in the days before the US-led attack, Arnett stayed."
"In January 1966 he joined a battalion of US soldiers seeking to rout North Vietnamese snipers and was standing next to the battalion commander when the soldier paused to read a map. As the colonel peered at it I heard four loud shots as bullets tore through the map and into his chest, a few inches from my face, Arnett recalled during a talk to the American Library Association in 2013. He sank to the ground at my feet."
Peter Arnett was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covered wars from Vietnam to Iraq, winning the 1966 Pulitzer for international reporting for Vietnam coverage. He reported in Vietnam from 1962 until 1975 and later gained broad public recognition for live CNN broadcasts during the 1991 Gulf War when he remained in Baghdad as missiles struck. He reported vivid frontline experiences, including near-death moments in Vietnam when a colonel was shot beside him. Arnett died at 91 in Newport Beach while in hospice for prostate cancer, surrounded by friends and family.
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