Alexander D. Shimkin
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Alexander Demitri "Alex" Shimkin (October 11, 1944 – July 12, 1972) was an American war correspondent who was killed in Vietnam. He is notable for his investigation of non-combatant casualties in Operation Speedy Express.
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Alexander D. Shimkin
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Alexander Demitri Shimkin
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Alexander Demitri Shimkin
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Quảng Trị Province, Vietnam
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1972-07-12
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Washington, D.C.
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1944-10-11
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1944-10-11
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Alexander Shimkin after he was arrested for civil rights activity in Alabama in 1965
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1972-07-12
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--07-06
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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_94MHBXuNWGg/TUDZEGUptLI/AAAAAAAAG5c/g68jWzJE-5o/s1600/Napalm%2BGirl%2B.arte_facto%2Bhereges%2Bpervers%25C3%25B5es%2B09.jpg Another photo of nearly the same scene snapped from a different perspective. Source: Corbis.
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https://www.newseum.org/exhibits/online/journalists-memorial/#main/?view_4_search=shimkin&view_4_page=1 Alexander Shimkin in Vietnam. Source: Newseum Journalists Memorial. Photo courtesy of E. Shimkin-Sorock.
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http://lh3.ggpht.com/_HBVKhiKXg8k/SbSnWDS-NNI/AAAAAAAAC_4/RhpxiVxczgE/6kimRunsBehBUR720506_23_33.jpg.jpeg Author Denise Chong believes that the man in this photo by David Burnett may be Alexander Shimkin. Source: Contact Press Images.
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investigating non-combatant casualties in Operation Speedy Express
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American
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was one of the most informative and powerful experiences of my life.''
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I have no right to be exempt from making sacrifices overseas.
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''Anything which is accomplished through making other people afraid is
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saying, especially when they did not know he understood Vietnamese,
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wrong. ... Anything which deprives other people of their dignity is wrong.''
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''Alex Shimkin opened my eyes and showed me things about the war that
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and listening to him tell me what Vietnamese in the Mekong Delta were
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I had missed even after nearly four years in Vietnam. Traveling with him
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--12-01
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--Alexander D. Shimkin. Taken from his International Voluntary Services
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application by Mike Benge and Thomas Russell and posted at http://northwestvets.com/op-baby.htm.
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--Kevin P. Buckley. Quoted by Nick Turse in "The Vietnam Exposé That Wasn't", The Nation,
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--Alexander D. Shimkin, oral history interview, 1965.
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Alexander Demitri "Alex" Shimkin (October 11, 1944 – July 12, 1972) was an American war correspondent who was killed in Vietnam. He is notable for his investigation of non-combatant casualties in Operation Speedy Express.
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1944
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1972
