I recall only three news events from my childhood. The first was the 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. I was four years old. Though I did not understand what was happening, I remember a radio announcement — and my mother bursting into tears. The second event was the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. The third event, also in 1969, was the horrific news that the U.S. military had carried out a mass murder of Vietnamese civilians — the My Lai massacre. It was the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh who broke that story. Hersh is one of the most famous and respected investigative journalists in the United States. Some consider him one of the half-dozen greatest journalists in American history. He worked for The New York Times and The New Yorker. He holds five Polk Awards and the Pulitzer Prize.
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