Women War Correspondents: Vietnam via Zoom

Women journalists came of age in WWII, but Vietnam was where the female war correspondents were transformed from a novelty into the norm.  During the Vietnam War, there were 467 military press-accredited women, of which 267 were American.  Women who couldn’t find a publication or an editor willing to send them bought their own tickets to Saigon and became stringers for publications willing to buy their work but not hire them as staff.  The loose military restrictions made reporting in Vietnam the most accessible of its time for women.  This presentation tells women’s stories as they covered everything from jungle combat operations to the carnage visited upon the civilian population.  Their reporting won every prize in the book – from the Polk Award and the Emmy – to the Pulitzer Prize.

Note: Patrons will be contacted prior to the event with Zoom id and password.