San Jose Mercury News
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist
David Halberstam was killed in a car crash in Menlo Park, Calif. early Monday. Halberstam, 73, died at the scene after the car in which he was a front-seat passenger was broadsided by another vehicle. He was wearing a seat belt. Berkeley journalism school dean
Orville Schell says Halberstam was on his way to an interview for his next book at the time of the accident. ||
Associated Press: The driver of the car carrying Halberstam is a journalism student at Berkeley.
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Roy Peter Clark:
Halberstam's range of interests extended well beyond the battlefield, but he is likely to be most remembered for an unquenchable desire to describe what he saw in war.
(Poynter)
