Halberstam dies in accident
David Halberstam, the Pulitzer-prize winning author who began his career at West Point’s Daily Times Leader, died Monday in a car crash. He was 73.
Nashvillepost.com has excerpts from historian John Egerton’s interview with Halberstam regarding the author’s early career: “I was full of idealism and eagerness to cover what I thought would be a big story that was just then beginning to unfold. My destination was Jackson, but the job I had been sent there for didn’t materialize, so I ended up as the only reporter at the Daily Times-Leader (circulation 4,000) in West Point, Mississippi…I lasted ten months.”