Dith Pran, the New York Times photographer whose survival of Cambodia's "killing fields" was turned into a movie, died at age 65 in NJ. Dith had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in recent years.
Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the ...
Dith Pran, the Cambodian journalist for the New York Times who documented and barely escaped the Khmer Rouge's "killing fields" in the 1970s, died Sunday. He was 65. Finally, the life of Cambodian ...
The world knows him as a powerful voice for the ghosts of the Cambodian Killing Fields, but Dith Pran speaks barely above a whisper now. The man who survived starvation, torture and Pol Pot's ...
(Adds interview with Schanberg) By Karen Brettell NEW YORK, March 30 (Reuters) - Photojournalist Dith Pran, whose harrowing survival of genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge was dramatized in the ...
WOODBRIDGE, N.J. — The world knows him as a powerful voice for the ghosts of the Cambodian Killing Fields, but Dith Pran speaks barely above a whisper now. The man who survived starvation, torture and ...
The gravitas of Sydney H. Schanberg comes through in his stories for The Times’s house organ. So does a wicked sense of humor. By David W. Dunlap Mr. Schanberg won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the ...
NEW YORK — Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and escape from Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film “The ...
Dith Pran, who died in New Jersey yesterday at 65, was the Cambodian photojournalist whose story was told in Roland Joffe’s award-winning film “The Killing Fields” (1984). With Sydney Schanberg, then ...
Dith Pran was born Sept. 27, 1942 at Siem Reap, site of the famed 12th century ruins of Angkor Wat. Educated in French and English, he worked as an interpreter for U.S. officials in Phnom Penh. As ...
Rockoff, who risked his life to photograph the brutality of the Khmer Rouge, has struggled ever since. Now he says his historic negatives have been taken from him. By Graham Bowley The gravitas of ...
The man who coined the term the killing fields has died. His name was Dith Pran. He was a Cambodia-born journalist and he helped bring to light the brutalities of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, a ...