WUSTL Film and Media Archive

Title Work

Title No: 5074

Title: Reporting America at war photos

Medium: Documentation

Original Medium: Photograph

Original Summary:

165 photographs: black and white, approximately 8.5x11 in. and 4 photographs: color, approximately 8.5x11 in. Photos show images of the program's featured war correspondents, battle sites (e.g. D-Day invasion), and other war-related images.  Also includes a few newspaper related images, such as newsboys, people reading newspapers, and headlines. Of particular note are Richard Harding Davis, Stephen Crane,  Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Lillian Hellman, Robert Capa, Edward R. Murrow, Ernie Pyle,  Lawernce Edward ("Larry") Lesueur, Eric Sevareid, Doris Fleeson, Charles Kiley, Oram C. ("Bud") Hutton, Richard C. Hottelet, Charles Collingwood, Gen. George S. Patton, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, members of the "Writing 69th" (comprised of Homer Bigart, Walter Cronkite, Gladwin Hill, Paul Manning, Robert Post, Andy Rooney, Denton Scott, and  William Wade), David Halberstam, Morley Safer, Peter Arnett, Malcolm W. Browne, Gloria Emerson, Horst Faas, Chris Hedges, and Christiane Amanpour.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Forms: Group portraits; Snapshots; Portrait photographs; Reproductive prints

Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Press coverage--United States.; Korean War, 1950-1953--Press coverage--United States.; Photojournalism; World War, 1914-1918--Press coverage--United States; Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Press coverage--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Press coverage--United States; Persian Gulf War, 1991--Press coverage--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy; United States--History--CIvil War, 1861-1865--Press coverage

Name As Subjects: Patton, George S.; Davis, Richard Harding; Murrow, Edward R.; Pyle, Ernie; Hemingway, Ernest; Sevareid, Eric; Lesueur, Lawrence Edward; Gellhorn, Martha; Capa, Robert; Emerson, Gloria; Rooney, Andrew R.; Halberstam, David; Safer, Morley; Arnett, Peter; Amanpour, Christiane; Hedges, Chris; Browne, Malcolm W.; Faas, Horst; Bigart, Homer; Fleeson, Doris; Hottelet, Richard C.; Collingwood, Charles; MacArthur, Douglas; Hellman, Lillian; Crane, Stephen; Hill, Gladwin; Manning, Paul; Post, Robert; Scott, Denton; Wade, William Sir

Credits:

	Role	Name
	Compiler	Insignia Films

Notes:

Sources used:
http://ead.diglib.ku.edu/xml/ksrl.ua.fleesondoris.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_LeSueur
http://www.greenharbor.com/wr69/wr69.html

Items ^x1

	Item	Description
	5074-2	Photographic : Inkjet prints

Contents ^x7

Seq No	Title No	Title
1	5798	The big type war of the yellow kids
2	6478	American journalist Martha Gellhorn with rifle, 1940
3	6511	Bodies of three dead American soldiers lying in the sand on shoreline near half-sunken landing craft on Buna Beach after a Japanese ambush attack.
4	6708	Ernie Pyle at his typewriter
5	6709	Portrait of Edward R. Murrow at CBS studios
6	6710	Gloria Emerson walks with children in Vietnam
7	6711	Charles Ellis reads Ernie Pyle's memorial, Okinawa, May 4, 1945

Contained By ^x1

	Title No	Title
	5040	Reporting America at war [stills]

Related Works ^x1

	Type	Title No	Title
		5098	Reporting America at war photo reference materials