Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Associated Press bureau chief Malcolm Browne's Vietnam gear.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the Vietnam War, and the Newseum marks the date with a new exhibit exploring how the media reported the country’s first televised war. Photos, news footage, music and artifacts tell the story of a divided nation, and debunk some myths about the era. The exhibit ultimately poses the question: did the press lose the war? We speak with the museum’s director and a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist about how this war changed the way we cover – and perceive – conflict.
Guests
- Cathy Trost Senior vice president for exhibits and programs, Newseum
- David Hume Kennerly Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist; Filmmaker, author. Contributing editor, Politico.
Photos: What Reporters Took To Vietnam
Bags such as these were used to ship TV news film out of Vietnam. Most film had to be flown from Saigon to New York, delaying its broadcast for two or more days.
Associated Press reporter Peter Arnett carried this Nikon camera while covering Vietnam. South Vietnamese officials censored this 1963 battlefield report written by Arnett.
Malcolm Browne, the Associated Press’s Saigon bureau chief from 1961 to 1965, wore these boots in Vietnam and carried this backpack, portable typewriter, Nikon camera and notebook.
Photographer Nick Ut used this Nikon camera, light meter and envelope while covering Vietnam for the Associated Press. He also carried these press passes.
Barry Zorthian wore this shirt while serving as the top U.S. government spokesman in Vietnam.
This color studio camera was used for the “CBS Evening News” from the Vietnam War era until 1990.
Peter Arnett carried this Nikon camera while reporting from Vietnam for the Associated Press. South Vietnamese officials censored this 1963 battlefield report written by Arnett.
Associated Press bureau chief Malcolm Browne, left, wore these boots and carried this backpack, portable typewriter, Nikon camera and notebook while covering Vietnam.
Photographer Nick Ut used this Nikon camera, light meter and envelope while covering Vietnam for the Associated Press. He also carried these press passes.
Top U.S. government spokesman Barry Zorthian, left, was given this tray by members of the Saigon press corps when he left Vietnam in 1968. Zorthian wore this shirt while briefing reporters in Vietnam.
In October 1969, Time covered the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, in which 2 million Americans across the country protested the war.
Psychedelic designs were common in the hundreds of countercultural publications that sprang up in the 1960s, including this 1967 issue of the Haight Ashbury Tribune.
This August 1970 cover of Rolling Stone featured singer-songwriter Janis Joplin, whose raucous psychedelic rock epitomized the 1960s youth rebellion.
In July 1969, Life investigated youth communes, alternative communities created by young Americans seeking escape from mainstream society.
A soldier sits on top of a tank near Laos in this 1971 photograph, which was part of David Hume Kennerly’s Pulitzer Prize–winning portfolio. Kennerly won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for his Vietnam War photos.
In one of the few color photographs David Hume Kennerly took during the Vietnam War, a South Vietnamese soldier sits next to a bunker while a tattered American flag flies in the foreground. Kennerly won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for his Vietnam War photos.
A soldier walks across a barren landscape in South Vietnam after a battle in 1971. David Hume Kennerly said the Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph captured the “loneliness and desolation of war.” Kennerly won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for his Vietnam War photos.
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