We loose another of the once, seemingly, from the real professional journalism ranks. Stanley brought great perspective to us about Asia and East Asia as written in this short piece about his passing. And especially with his book about Vietnam which wasn't taken as it should have by the politics of those times, either side.
He like the others who have passed will be missed, at least by those of us who lived in those times and grew up with, before opinion became the news.
Stanley Karnow, Author of "Vietnam, a history", Dies at 87
January 27, 2013 - Stanley Karnow, who wrote a definitive book about the Vietnam War, "Vietnam, a history", and later won a Pulitzer for a history of the Philippines, died Sunday morning. He was 87.
Karnow had congestive heart failure and died in his sleep at his home in Potomac, Md., his son Michael Karnow told the Associated Press.
After covering the war for Time, the Washington Post and other publications through the 1970s, Karnow worked on an epic PBS documentary and wrote the million-selling "Vietnam, a history", which was published in 1983.
The PBS series won six Emmys, a Peabody and a George Polk award and was the highest-rated documentary at the time for public television, with an average of 9.7 million viewers per episode. The series was even-handed, so much so that it was criticized heavily by liberals as well as conservatives. read more>>>
November 20, 2000 - Elizabeth Farnsworth speaks with three journalists, one being Karnow, about President Clinton's historic trip to Vietnam
Vietnam Passage. Teacher's Guide | PBS
American Experience | PBS | An online companion to Vietnam: A Television History