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.
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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. (Courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)

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Author David Halberstam won a Pulitzer for chronicling Vietnam


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David Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Vietnam War reporting when he was only 30, died Monday in car crash. He was 73. Halberstam gave the keynote address at a historic conference on Vietnam last year at the Kennedy Library in Boston.

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