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...Students from SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) began pressing in around his car and rocking it, side to side. McNamara, thinking he could reason with them, left his car and attempted a kind of lecture. But they would not listen to the person David I. Halberstam ’55 later unapologetically called “a fool.” McNamara, sensing danger, fled through a Quincy House door, and was escorted to the Yard through an underground tunnel...
...heavy shelling as if in a light rain. It was perhaps the first modern "mission accomplished" moment. The U.S. thought it had the Korean War sewn up, but it spent the next three years slugging it out with Mao's "volunteers." In The Coldest Winter (Hyperion; 736 pages), David Halberstam, who died in April, brings angry wisdom to a conflict that, after the moral clarity of WW II, seemed remote and incomprehensible. It was the miserable prototype for wars to come...
From his experiences during the war, Halberstam wrote what is considered one of his greatest works, “The Best and the Brightest.” More than 20 books followed, with his most recent, “The Coldest Winter,” a book about the Korean war, due out this upcoming fall...
...certainly was one of the greatest writers of 20th century,” said Phillip M. Cronin ’53, a former president of The Crimson, “and I can say that because I have read everything that he has ever written.” Halberstam had just finished the last proofs of this book before April’s car crash, according to his wife...
CORRECTION: Due to an editing error, the June 6 obituary of David L. Halberstam '55 incorrectly stated that Halberstam was killed in a car crash on April 23, 2004. In fact, the crash occurred on April...