Journalist Malcolm Browne.
Correspondent for The New York Times, Malcolm Browne. He has a memoir about his life as a reporter, "Muddy Boots and Red Socks: A Reporter's Life." (Times Books). He spent two decades as a foreign correspondent for wire services, newspapers, and magazines. He followed troops in Vietnam, and took the famous photographs of Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire in the streets of Saigon. He won a Pulitzer for his coverage of Viet Nam. Browne has also covered wars in Cambodia, Punjab, Bangladesh, North Africa, Latin America, and he was the oldest newsman to cover the Gulf War.
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