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Georgette Louise Meyer (March 14, 1919 – November 4, 1965) known as Dickey Chapelle [1] was an American photojournalist known for her work as a war correspondent from World War II through to her death in the Vietnam War.
Died: Dickey Chapelle, 46, American photojournalist, became the first war correspondent to be killed in the Vietnam War, and the first female American reporter to die in combat. Chapelle was mortally wounded when a land mine exploded in front of her while she was accompanying a platoon of U.S. Marines near Chu Lai. [26] [27]
Vietnam is a recurring subject in several songs, including the biographical "Pearls Eye View (The Life of Dickey Chapelle)" for Dickey Chapelle, and "Traveling Through This Part of You" for her ex-husband, Eric Taylor, a Vietnam veteran. She also pays homage to one of her mentors John Stewart including three of his songs with Stewart playing ...
Henri Huet was born in Da Lat, French Indochina, the son of a Breton engineer and Vietnamese mother. At age five he was sent to France, where he was educated at Saint-Malo in Brittany and studied at the art school in Rennes, beginning his adult career as a painter.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
New details are emerging about the case against Luigi Mangione, the man indicted on murder charges in the deadly shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City. The 26-year-old ...
Dickey Chapelle (1919–1965), photojournalist known for her work as a war correspondent in World War II and the Vietnam War; Anita Chernewski (born 1946), American photographer; Talia Chetrit (born 1982), still life and nude photographer; Rose Clark (1852–1942), pictorialist photographer
Her horrific death shocked the city — and the nation. Illegal Guatemalan immigrant Sebastian Zapeta-Calil is charged with setting her on fire around 7:30 a.m. Dec. 22 on an F train in the ...