September 2, 1983 - Peter Arnett, a CNN journalist, speaking to the 19th Annual Pulitzer Forum, sponsored by the World Press Institute, at Macalester College. Arnett’s address was titled "Bang-Bang and Other Stories: Vietnam's Legacy for Today's War Correspondent." Arnett wrote a 13-part television series on Vietnam called "The 10-Thousand Day War." After speech, Arnett answered audience questions. New Zealand-born, the 56-year-old Peter Arnett is no stranger to war. In 1966 he won the Pulitzer Prize tor International Reporting for his coverage of the Vietnam War. He covered that war, for 13 years, for the Associated Press. He was one of the few reporters to remain in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975. Arnett then went on to become one of the AP's five senior reporters. Among other major stories Arnett has covered are the Attica prison riot in 1971, the McGovern campaign, the Carter campaign, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, fighting in El Salvador, upheaval in Nicaragua, and the Iranian hostage crisis. He became a Cable News Network correspondent in 1981. Arnett spent two years as CNN's Moscow bureau chief before assuming his present job as a national / international correspondent in 1988.
March 9, 1983 - "A Vietnam perspective: The War, the veterans and the society" is the 2nd in a series looking back at the Vietnam War and its affects on the United States. Recorded at the University of Southern California.
March 6, 1979 - Panel discussion was part of the 10 day conference held at Macalester College under the heading "The Vietnam Experience and America Today". Panel members include Peter Braestrup, correspondent for The New York Times and The Washington Post and founding editor of the Wilson Quarterly; Peter Arnett, Pulitzer prize winning journalist for the Associated Press; Dave Moore, Twin Cities anchorman for WCCO; Ronald Ross, editorial writer and former Asian correspondent for the Minneapolis Tribune. Charles Bailey, editor of the Minneapolis Tribune was panel moderator.