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1960
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1966
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{"value"=>"Halberstam, David"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Mostly correspondence regarding assignments: Assignment to West Africa with base in Leopoldville, Congo (1961). Of interest: memo on personal experience when he was trapped in a fighting in Katanga, Congo (1962). Transfer from West Africa to Southeast Asia (1962). Correspondence regarding coverage of the Vietnam crisis, including religious aspect of the crisis. (Note: A 1989 article on his reporting from Vietnam is included). Correspondence about editing problems in New York. Of interest: letter from T. Catledge (1963). Transfer from Saigon to New York (1964). Assignment to Warsaw and expulsion from Poland (1965). Correspondence regarding Halberstam winning the Newspaper Guild Page One Award (1962) and the George Polk Award. The file also contains articles about Halberstam and readers' mail. Photographs.</p>"}
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{"type"=>"did", "value"=>" see: Paris Bureau, 1947-1976; Vietnam, 1954-1979 (A) "}
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1960
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1966
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1960