Posted on 04/23/2007 4:11:48 PM PDT by SF Republican
Author David Halberstam was killed today in a three-car accident in Menlo Park, authorities said.
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Author David Halberstam killed in crash near Dumbarton Bridge
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Oh, dear! The poor man!
He had such a great vocabulary, and a very subtle sense of humor.
I can remember when his brother Michael Halberstam, a famous physician in DC, was murdered by a burglar whom he surprised.
Famed Author David Halberstam Killed In Bay Area Crash
Prayers for Mr. Halberstam and his family.
Mr. Halberstram was a contemporary of my dad’s, both being sportswriters. They spoke together at the New School in New York back in the early 1980’s. He was a very nice man.
Another illegal alien-caused crash like the one that killed the “Christmas Story” director?
Oh no.
It was the intrepid Halberstam who first revealed that in December of ‘92, President-elect Bill Clinton dismissed Lee Hamilton’s request to discuss some urgent foreign policy matters, telling the shocked Hamilton, “Nobody cares about foreign policy.”
May he rest in peace.
A real shame. He wrote some good books. The Children is a spectacular book on the Civil Rights Movement. He actually was a reporter covering it in Nashville.
His book the Summer of 49 was a real good baseball book, about the ongoing rivlary between the Red Sox and Yankees.
RIP David Halberstam
Condolences to David Halberstam’s family and friends.
Oh dear.
Ping
couldn’t agree more on the book. the best (along with “the glory of their times”) baseball writing pen ever put to paper in my opinion. RIP Mr. Halberstam.
The Best and the Brightest.
Damned shame. Rest in Peace.
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