Harrison Salisbury
 Harrison Salisbury      (journalist) | |
|---|---|
 In 1967 | |
| Born | November 14, 1908 |
| Died | July 5, 1993 (Age 84) |
| Alma mater | University of Minnesota |
| Member of | Bohemian Grove, Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members |
US journalist | |
Harrison Evans Salisbury (November 14, 1908 – July 5, 1993), was an American journalist and the first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War II.[1]
Biography
Salisbury was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He graduated from Minneapolis North High School in 1925 and the University of Minnesota in 1930, though some sources say he was expelled from university.[2]
He spent nearly 20 years with United Press (UP), much of it overseas, and was UP's foreign editor during the last two years of World War II. Additionally, he was The New York Times' Moscow bureau chief from 1949–1954. Salisbury constantly battled Soviet censorship and won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1955. He twice (in 1957 and 1966) received the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting.
In the 1960s, he covered the growing civil rights movement in the Southern United States. From there, he directed The Times' coverage of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963. In 1970, he served as the first editor of The Times' Op-Ed page, which was created by John B. Oakes, and was assistant managing editor from 1964–1972, associate editor from 1972–1973. He retired from The Times in 1973.
Salisbury was among the earliest United States corporate press journalists to oppose the Vietnam War after reporting from North Vietnam in 1966. He took much heat from the Johnson Administration and the political Right, but his previous standards of objectivity helped to sway journalistic opinion against the war. He is interviewed in the anti-Vietnam War documentary film In the Year of the Pig. He was the first American journalist to report on the Vietnam War from North Vietnam after having been invited there by the North Vietnamese government in late 1966. His report was the first in the US corporate press that genuinely questioned the American air war.[3]
Salisbury also toured America for Esquire (magazine), for which the Xerox company paid him $55,000.[4]
Salisbury reported extensively from China, where he in 1989 reported on the events in Tienanmen Square afterward making a book about it "Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June".
He wrote 29 books, including American in Russia (1955) and Behind the Lines—Hanoi (1967). His other books include The Shook-Up Generation (1958), Orbit of China (1967), War Between Russia and China (1969), The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad (1969), To Peking and Beyond: A Report on the New Asia (1973), The Gates of Hell (1975), Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917 (1978), Without Fear or Favor: The New York Times and Its Times (1980), Journey For Our Times (autobiographical, 1983), China: 100 Years of Revolution, (1983), The Long March: The Untold Story (1985), Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June (1989), The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng (1992) and his last, Heroes of My Time (1993). The 900 Days was in the process of being adapted into a feature film by famous Italian director Sergio Leone at the time of Leone's death in 1989.
He died in Providence, Rhode Island.
References
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/07/obituaries/harrison-e-salisbury-84-author-and-reporter-dies.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
- ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/image/101203549/
- ↑ Grant, Zalin (1986). Over the Beach The Air War in Vietnam. New York: Pocket Books. pp. 106–112.
- ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/image/101203549/
