Tag: Cambodia

“Amazingly Poor Judgement”: Robert Sam Anson in Cambodia, August 1970

by ncurrie, posted in Journalism, State and Foreign Affairs, Vietnam

Today's post was written by David Langbart, archivist in Textual Reference at the National Archives in College Park, MD Noted journalist Robert Sam Anson died on November 2, 2020.  The obituaries printed in The New York Times and The Washington Post mentioned that he was captured and held by Communist forces in Cambodia while covering … Continue reading “Amazingly Poor Judgement”: Robert Sam Anson in Cambodia, August 1970

black and white photo of Sydney Schanberg

Escaping the Killing Fields of Cambodia, 1975

by ncurrie, posted in Journalism

Today’s post was written by David Langbart, an Archivist in the Textual Records Division at the National Archives at College Park. (c) The New York Times/Redux Noted journalist Sydney H. Schanberg died on July 9.  While he is perhaps most famous for his reporting from Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge takeover in the mid-1970s, his … Continue reading Escaping the Killing Fields of Cambodia, 1975