![]() ![]() He subsequently became known for his distinguished coverage of the Vietnam War, first for Time magazine and later for news outlets that included the Saturday Evening Post, The Washington Post and NBC News.įiling dispatches from the Far East for nearly 15 years - from the earliest days of American casualties in Vietnam - he became one of an elite handful of influential journalists who challenged the official stance in Washington that the United States was easily controlling the “struggle.” The New York-born Karnow launched his career as a foreign correspondent after setting sail for Europe on a coal freighter a week after graduating in 1947 from Harvard University. He had congestive heart failure, said his son, Michael Karnow. involvement in the Philippines, died Jan. ![]() ![]() Stanley Karnow, an author and journalist who wrote one of the seminal histories of the Vietnam War and won the Pulitzer Prize for his sweeping historical narrative of U.S. By Stephanie Hanes | Special to The Washington Post January 27, 2013 ![]()
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