AMES, Iowa -- The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who broke the 2004 Abu Ghraib prison scandal will speak at Iowa State University about "The Crisis in American Foreign Policy." Seymour Hersh will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, in the Memorial Union Sun Room. The talk, part of the university's World Affairs Series, is free and open to the public.
Since 1993, Hersh has been a regular contributor to the New Yorker, writing investigative articles on U.S. military operations and national security. He started his career as a police reporter in Chicago. After serving in the Army and working as a wire service reporter for UPI and AP, Hirsch became press secretary and speechwriter for Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign in 1967.
Two years later, he exposed the Vietnam War My Lai massacre and cover-up, earning the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Hersh went to work for The New York Times in 1972. Since 1979, he has worked as a freelance writer.
Hersh is the author of eight books, including, "Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib," "The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House," "The Dark Side of Camelot," and "Against All Enemies: Gulf War Syndrome."
In addition to winning the Pulitzer, Hersh has won several awards for his reporting and writing: five George Polk Awards, two National Magazine Awards, an Overseas Press Club award, the National Press Foundation's Kiplinger Distinguished Contributions to Journalism award, and more than a dozen other prizes for investigative reporting.
The lecture is cosponsored by World Affairs and the Committee on Lectures, which is funded by the Government of the Student Body.
More information on ISU lectures is available at http://www.lectures.iastate.edu, or by calling (515) 294-9935.