Mourning Halberstam
The Clarion-Ledger’s Rick Cleveland on the passing of David Halberstam…“(His) reporting was exhaustive. He didn’t blow you away with flowery prose; he just got to the heart of whatever subject matter he tackled. He left no telling anecdote untold. He left no fact uncovered.”
The Delta Democrat Times‘ Ross Reily on Halberstam’s connection to the Delta…”He wasn’t from the Mississippi Delta, but Mississippi Deltans were quick to claim Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam this week upon learning of his untimely death in an automobile accident in California.”
Bill Minor, dean of the Mississippi political writers, on Halberstam’s early days in Mississippi…”Knowing that the West Point editor was an arch-conservative, and a strong backer of the segregationist Citizens’ Councils, my guess was a Harvard-educated young New Yorker wouldn’t last long…Only 10 months on the job, and a few days before his 22nd birthday, Halberstam called and said he’d been fired.”
Yours Truly on the Pulitzer winner’s West Point connection and acknowledgment of his abbreviated tenure…”We are what we remember. More to the point, the memories we collect through our lifetimes are really what define us as individuals. David Halberstam knew this…Halberstam, who died Monday in a car crash at age 73, must have recalled with some fondness the 10 months in the late 1950s he spent as a reporter at the Daily Times Leader.”