American Journalist David Halberstam, R.I.P.

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American Journalist David Halberstam died early today in a freak auto accident in Menlo Park, San Francisco ending the career of a dedicated professional to the craft of news reporting.

Our profession has lost a giant.  The Angryindian 

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — David Halberstam, a
Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled the Washington press
corps, the Vietnam War generation and baseball, was killed in a car
crash early Monday, a coroner said. He was 73.

Halberstam, a New Yorker, was a passenger in a
car that was broadsided by another vehicle in Menlo Park, south of San
Francisco, San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said.

"Looking at the accident and examining him at the scene indicated it's most likely internal injuries," Foucrault said.

The driver of the car carrying Halberstam is a
student at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of
California, Berkeley, and was taken to Stanford Medical Center. Two
others were injured.

Halberstam spoke Saturday at a UC
Berkeley-sponsored event on the craft of journalism and what it means
to turn reporting into a work of history.