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MCJ-First Casualty
First Casualty questions
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Communication
Undergraduate 1
12/09/2010

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"Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed"
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I.F. Stone
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This French journalist, a stringer for Newsweek magazine, was expelled from Vietnam in 1962 for writing an article entitled "Vietnam: The Unpleasant Truth."
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Francois Sully
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Who was Thich Quang Duc?
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The monk who burned himself
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"Reporters here would like to see us lose the war to prove they are right"
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Marguerite Higgins
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"Everyone thought I left because I was against the war. I just thought it wasn't working. I didn't come to think of it as immoral until the very end"
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Charles Mohr
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This veteran war correspondent wrote about war orphans in South Vietnam, but had considerable difficulty getting her story printed and was later refused permission to re-enter South Vietnam.
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Martha Gellhorn
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Which countries fought in the Falkland Island War?
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Argentina and UK
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Kevin Buckley, Saigon bureau chief for Newsweek, had a difficult time getting into print a story about "Operation Speedy Express" What was the operation?
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It was an accelerated Pacification Program. Women, and children were murdered by the ninth infantry division
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This journalist said he could have presented one of the immolation suicides by a Buddhist monk by simple kicking away a bottle of gasoline, but he did not, because he did not think that was the job of a reporter. Name the journalist
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Peter Arnett
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This photographer, who was British and worked for Life magazine, sometimes pondered the morality and sensitivity of wartime photography, once saying "Sometimes one feels like such a bastard"
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Larry Burrows
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Ronald Reagan invaded this country in 1983
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Grenada
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Which tv network shot the film of the chief of the South Vietnamese state police shooting the captured Viet Cong at point blank range?
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NBC
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When a few U.S. war correspondents tried to reach the island of Grenada by speedboat, what did the U.S. military do?
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U.S. fighter plane fired at them, making them turn back.
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This Australian journalist traveled with the Viet Cong and reported for newspapers from a Communist point of view.
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Wilfred Burchett
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this female French photographer was captured by the North Vietnamese at Hue and later released.
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Catherine Leroy
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"I want people who see my pictures to hate war as I do. But although I am afraid, I have to be there when the killing starts"
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Catherine Leroy
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What was New Zealand journalist Kate Webb talking about when she said "It was like a butcher shop in Eden, beautiful but ghastly."
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U.S. embassy after the Tet offensive
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This journalist was captured by the North Vietnamese operating in Cambodia and held for 25 days.
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Kate Webb
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"Where else but in Vietnam would a man get a chance to play with a supersonic jet, drive a tank or shoot off a rocket and even get highly paid for it?
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Tim Page
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What did Newsweek magazine describe as "the most systematic military cover-up in the history of America's role in the Indo-Chinese war"
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Intensified bombing by the U.S. on N. Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. They dropped the most bombs during this time than compared with WWII 50 times more.
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