Joseph L. Galloway | |
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 Galloway in 2017 | |
| Born | Joseph Lee Galloway November 13, 1941 Bryan, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | August 18, 2021 (aged 79) Concord, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, author |
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Joseph Lee Galloway (November 13, 1941 – August 18, 2021) was an American newspaper correspondent and columnist. During the Vietnam War, he often worked alongside the American troops he covered and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal in 1998 for having carried a badly wounded man to safety while he was under very heavy enemy fire in 1965.[2] From 2013 until his death, he worked as a special consultant for the Vietnam War 50th anniversary Commemoration project run out of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and has also served as consultant to Ken Burns' production of a documentary history of the Vietnam War broadcast in the fall of 2017 by PBS. He was also the former Military Affairs consultant for the Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers and was a columnist with McClatchy Newspapers.[3]
- ^ "Joseph L. Galloway Biography", We Were Soldiers, Open Road Integrated Media
- ^ We Were Soldiers Archived October 18, 2018, at the Wayback Machine BSM Citation
- ^ McClatchy Newspapers [Joe Galloway "McClatchy | Joe Galloway". Archived from the original on June 21, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2009.]