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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKilling Fields journalist Sydney Schanberg dies at 82
Killing Fields journalist Sydney Schanberg dies at 82http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36754206
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US journalist Sydney Schanberg, whose reporting inspired the Oscar-winning Hollywood film, The Killing Fields, has died at the age of 82, the New York Times reports.
Schanberg worked for the Times and won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting the fall of Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge in 1975.
His colleague, Dith Pran, was unable to leave and his four-year ordeal inspired Schanberg's work.
Schanberg died in Poughkeepsie after a heart attack earlier in the week.
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Killing Fields journalist Sydney Schanberg dies at 82 (Original Post)
applegrove
Jul 2016
OP
The Killing Fields was a terrific movie. Depressing as hell, though.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jul 2016
#1
I saw it in university. The sound of the helicopters was so real.... I could feel the wind
applegrove
Jul 2016
#3
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,031 posts)1. The Killing Fields was a terrific movie. Depressing as hell, though.
applegrove
(118,965 posts)3. I saw it in university. The sound of the helicopters was so real.... I could feel the wind
Last edited Sun Jul 10, 2016, 01:52 PM - Edit history (4)
rushing over me as did the story. And your hearts starts beating to the propellars i was so raw after going on Sydney's journey with him. Walked around in a fog for days afterwards. I wonder how a people recover from living that if they survive.
Warpy
(111,480 posts)5. Dith Pran surivived, though, while many thousands did not.
He predeceased his friend Schanberg in 2008 at only 65. He worked here as a photojournalist for the NYT before his death.
He dedicated his life to telling people what had happened during the Cambodian holocaust. "The Killing Fields" came out of that.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)2. Aw damn
Nay
(12,051 posts)4. A life well-lived, Mr. Schanberg.
MinM
(2,650 posts)6. McCain and the POW Cover-Up
Last edited Sun Jul 10, 2016, 01:06 AM - Edit history (1)
McCain and the POW Cover-Up
Thursday 18 September 2008
by: Sydney H. Schanberg, The Nation
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http://www.truthout.org/article/mccain-and-pow-cover-up
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017391003