Peter Arnett, famed war correspondent, dead at 91

"Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war - from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq - has died. He was 91. Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his Vietnam War coverage for the Associated Press, died Wednesday in Newport Beach and was surrounded by friends and family, said his son Andrew Arnett. He had been suffering from prostate cancer."

""Peter Arnett was one of the greatest war correspondents of his generation - intrepid, fearless, and a beautiful writer and storyteller. His reporting in print and on camera will remain a legacy for aspiring journalists and historians for generations to come,""

""There was an explosion right near me, you may have heard," he said in a calm, New Zealand-accented voice moments after the loud boom of a missile strike rattled across the airwaves. As he continued to speak, air-raid sirens blared in the background. "I think that took out the telecommunications center," he said of another explosion. "They are hitting the center of the city.""

Peter Arnett won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his Vietnam War coverage with the Associated Press. He died in Newport Beach at age 91 after suffering from prostate cancer and was surrounded by friends and family. Arnett reported from Vietnam from 1962 until 1975 and frequently operated close to frontline combat as a wire-service correspondent. He became widely known to the public during the 1991 Gulf War by broadcasting live from Baghdad while missiles struck and most Western reporters had fled. Colleagues highlighted his intrepid, fearless reporting and his talents as a writer and storyteller.

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