Keyes Beech

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W. Keyes Beech (born August 13, 1913 in Pulaski , Tennessee ; died February 15, 1990 in Washington, DC ) was an American journalist best known for his war coverage. For his reports from the Korean War , he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1951 .

Life

Beech began his journalistic career at the Evening Independent in St. Petersburg, Florida (1931-36), from 1939 to 1942 he was a reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal . He then served three years in the United States Marine Corps during World War II . 1945-47 he was Washington correspondent for the Honolulu Star Bulletin , before he was East Asia correspondent for the Chicago Daily News in 1947 , a position he held until 1977. His reports from the Korean and Vietnam War and his Pulitzer Prize (1951) fall during this period. After the war he reported from Bangkok for the Los Angeles Times on developments in Southeast Asia until he retired in 1983.

Works in book length

  • (with Raymond Henri, Jim Griffing Lucas, David K. Dempsey, and Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.): The US Marines on Iwo Jima . Dial Press, New York 1945.
  • (with George McMillan): Uncommon Valor: Marine Divisions in Action . Infantry Journal Press, Washington 1946.
  • Tokyo and Points East . Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1954.
  • Not Without the Americans: A Personal History . Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1971.
personal data
SURNAME Beech, Keyes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Pulaski (Tennessee)
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1990
Place of death Washington, DC