Photo: #David Halberstam won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Vietnam War for The New York Times. He wrote, The Best and the Brightest, the acclaimed critical history of how and why the United States went to war in Vietnam. Halberstam spoke in March at a conference on Vietnam and the Presidency.
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David Halberstam won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Vietnam War for The New York Times. He wrote, The Best and the Brightest, the acclaimed critical history of how and why the United States went to war in Vietnam. Halberstam spoke in March at a conference on Vietnam and the Presidency. (Courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)

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The Vietnam "lying machine"

Broadcast: Midday, 06/07/2006, 12:06 p.m.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning war reporter David Halberstam explains the challenges he faced covering the Vietnam War in the face of "a government lying machine."

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