Peter Arnett, Pulitzer prize-winner who reported on Vietnam and Gulf wars, dies aged 91
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Arnett won 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his Vietnam War coverage for the Associated Press
Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at 91.
Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his Vietnam War coverage for the Associated Press, died on Wednesday in Newport Beach, California, and was surrounded by friends and family, said his son Andrew Arnett. He had entered hospice on Saturday while suffering from prostate cancer.
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