# browne (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover browne. Page: Feed: --- ## [Wallace Terry and Vietnam](https://rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2026/08/one-night-in-vietnam.html) _2026-08-14 · Ray Boomhower · Ray E. Boomhower's Books_ Outgoing Washington, DC, May 1967 It had been two years since the US Marines stormed ashore at Da Nang, South Vietnam, marking the first major deployment of American combat forces in the conflict in Southeast Asia. The war was “consuming the White House the way civil rights once did,” noted Wallace H. Terry , the first Black correspondent working for Time , the nation’s leading newsweekly. Terry… ## [Preorders Available for Wallce Terry Biography](https://rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2026/06/preorders-available-for-wallce-terry.html) _2026-06-13 · Ray Boomhower · Ray E. Boomhower's Books_ In Wallace Terry: A Reporter’s Journey from Selma to Saigon to Bloods, award-winning biographer Ray E. Boomhower tells the story of a journalist who spent his life smashing barriers from childhood in Indiana, to an Ivy League education at Brown, to covering the civil rights movement in the in the Deep South in the 1960s, and finally to what he described as “the biggest story in the world” of his… ## [The AP Reporter and the Buddhist Monk](https://rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-ap-reporter-and-buddhist-monk.html) _2026-06-11 · Ray Boomhower · Ray E. Boomhower's Books_ While president John F. Kennedy was talking on the phone with his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, on the morning of Tuesday, June 11, 1963, he suddenly, sharply, exclaimed: “Jesus Christ!” The president’s outburst had nothing to do with his conversation with his brother. Rather, he was responding to a photograph splashed on the front pages of the newspapers just delivered to him. The… ## [The Knock: William Manchester & Robert Kennedy](https://rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-knock.html) _2026-06-04 · Ray Boomhower · Ray E. Boomhower's Books_ The pounding on the door of Suite 1407 at the Berkshire Hotel in Midtown Manhattan reverberated throughout its two rooms early in the morning on November 16, 1966. The banging was loud enough to drive one of its occupants to dive under bedcovers to escape the din. The clamor also shook author William Manchester, who had been painstakingly reviewing a manuscript about the assassination of President… ## [Wallace Terry, Zalin Grant, and a Mission to Cholon](https://rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2026/02/wallace-terry-zalin-grant-and-mission.html) _2026-02-24 · Ray Boomhower · Ray E. Boomhower's Books_ Viet Cong rockets and mortars shattered Saigon’s peace early in the morning of May 5, 1968. The renewed fighting led Wallace Terry , a Time magazine correspondent, to believe that a new Communist offensive against the South Vietnamese government and its American allies might be at hand. This attack became known as the second phase of the Tet Offensive , which had first been launched against… ## [A Shooting War: Margaret Bourke-White & Richard Tregaskis](https://rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-shooting-war-margaret-bourke-white.html) _2026-01-05 · Ray Boomhower · Ray E. Boomhower's Books_ Life magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White had undergone a nerve-racking day near the front lines dodging enemy shells that whooshed into the surrounding hillsides and whistled over the roads in the Italian countryside about two hours outside of Naples in November 1943. That evening Bourke-White returned to the Thirty-Eighth Evacuation Field Hospital, set up near the hills bordering Cassino… ## [The Young Turks: Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and Horst Faas in Saigon](https://rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-young-turks-malcolm-browne-peter.html) _2025-12-18 · Ray Boomhower · Ray E. Boomhower's Books_ On a rainy day in June 1962, two newsmen who provided invaluable service for the Associated Press for many years to come arrived in Saigon to help bolster the efforts of AP bureau chief Malcolm W. Browne . The journalists were reporter Peter Arnett , born and raised in New Zealand, and photographer Horst Faas , survivor of a war-torn upbringing in Berlin, Germany, during World War II. The three… ## [Richard Tregaskis and the Road to Tokyo](https://rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2025/12/richard-tregaskis-and-road-to-tokyo.html) _2025-12-08 · Ray Boomhower · Ray E. Boomhower's Books_ The evening before the USS Ticonderoga ’s July 24, 1945, strike mission against the ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Kure Naval Arsenal on the island of Honshu, one of the men scheduled to fly with Torpedo Squadron 87 aboard a Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber had a visitor in his cabin. The squadron’s safety officer, Lieutenant Algie Stuart Jr., regaled the crewman with unsettling… ## [Doctor Marjorie Nelson: A Hoosier Quaker in Vietnam](https://rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2025/10/doctor-marjorie-nelson-hoosier-quaker.html) _2025-10-03 · Ray Boomhower · Ray E. Boomhower's Books_ The knock on the door of the American teacher’s home came a few days after 80,000 North Vietnamese Army forces and their Viet Cong allies struck South Vietnamese cities and U.S. installations during the Vietnamese Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday in an operation that became known as the Tet Offensive . The country’s ancient imperial capital, Hue, had been one of the major cities attacked. Marjorie… ## [Zero-Persistence E2EE (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Ov0vkvw2ic5t) _2025-10-03 · **Sponsored**_ End-to-end encryption with client-side WebCrypto and volatile memory. ## [A Ship for Peace](https://rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-ship-for-peace.html) _2025-09-22 · Ray Boomhower · Ray E. Boomhower's Books_ In the early afternoon of December 4, 1915, a crowd estimated at anywhere from 3,000 to 15,000 braved the brisk weather at a pier in Hoboken, New Jersey, in order to witness the sailing of the Scandinavian-American ship Oscar II . The ship was set for a scheduled ten-day trip across the Atlantic Ocean to Christiania (today Oslo), Norway. As the ship prepared to leave, the crowd sang and cheered as…