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Don't Miss:Pope endorses breastfeedingZara halts orders after protestsBill Gates as Secret SantaFamous porn publisher diesWord of the Year poll2007 04 23 19:24:00 PDT MENLO PARK Pulitzer Prize winning journalist was killed today doing what he had done for more than four decades: chasing down a great story.
Halberstam, 73, died in a car wreck just a few miles away from a long sought interview for a book he was planning about a legendary 1958 football game.
Menlo Park Dustin Pedroia Jersey police are still probing the cause of the fiery three car accident.
The car in which Halberstam was riding, a Toyota Camry, was hit by a late model , chief of the Menlo Park Fire District.
The engine compartment was on fire and the passenger side of the car had been crushed, Schapelhouman said.
One rescue crew was able to pull Halberstam from the car while another doused the flames, the chief said. Halberstam was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police declined to say who may have been at fault in the crash. Cars turning http://www.redsoxofficialauthentic.com/Authentic-Dustin-Pedroia-Jersey left at the intersection onto Willow Road may proceed only when they have a green arrow.
The Berkeley graduate student driving the Camry, , suffered a punctured lung and was taken to .
"It's just a really hard time for him. He's feeling really David Ortiz Jersey sad and freaked out," his wife, , said by telephone from the hospital's emergency room. "It's just a very traumatizing thing to have gone through."
She said she had not discussed the accident with him in detail.
Halberstam had been in the Bay Area to deliver a speech at UC Berkeley about what it means to turn reporting into a work of history, said , the dean at Berkeley's graduate school of journalism.
Halberstam won the Pulitzer Prize in 1964 at age 30 for his reporting from Vietnam. He later turned to long form writing and wrote 21 books, including "The Best and the Brightest," about how the United States became involved in Vietnam. His other works covered a wide range of subjects, including civil rights, sports and the auto industry.
But Halberstam's own journalistic career was anything but history, said , a member of the journalism school's alumni board, which arranged the event this past Saturday.
"He had just finished the galleys on Thursday for his latest book on the Korean war," Eckhouse said. "He spent Saturday in his room at the faculty club. He said if he could come over to our (afternoon) event he would, but he had some editing to do, some writing to do."
Halberstam's Saturday evening speech was a rousing success, Schell said, with a packed house of journalists and members of the public.
"He was speaking about the need for passion to be a journalist, and the importance of it to the whole healthy functioning of the American political experiment," Schell said. "I think those two things were what made him something of an evangelist to the role of the journalist in our society."