![]() ![]() FitzGerald’s arrival coincided with the Buddhist uprising in South Vietnam in 1966. After being captured by North Vietnamese troops operating in Cambodia in 1971, Webb made international headlines when premature reports of her death led to a New York Times obituary-before she emerged from captivity several days later. ![]() Webb was an Australian freelance correspondent who eventually became the United Press International bureau chief in Phnom Penh. A year later, she became the first journalist to join in a combat parachute jump, and she gained widespread recognition for her up-close images of soldiers in battle, many published in Life. French photojournalist Leroy was already a licensed parachutist when she arrived in Saigon in 1966. ![]() involvement was escalating and news organizations continued to send men to chronicle the war, these women paid their own ways and sought out freelance reporting opportunities. In her latest, Becker, who has covered war and foreign policy for the Washington Post, NPR, and the New York Times, focuses on the careers of Frances FitzGerald, Kate Webb, and Catherine Leroy, interweaving their stories as they traveled to Vietnam in the mid-1960s. ![]() An incisive history of the Vietnam War via the groundbreaking accomplishments of three remarkable women journalists. ![]()
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