Sad news….
…for those of us who covered the Viet Nam war. Horst Faas, who headed the Associated Press photo team through most of the war, has died in his native Germany after a long illness.
Horst was a talented, indestructible man who dominated the Saigon scene while many of the rest of us just “dabbled”. As a CBS News correspondent, I was one of those who passed through Viet Nam for a year and went home. Horst stayed and was a mentor for all of us.
Confined to a wheelchair in his later years, Horst remained an indomitable, irascible, forceful, hard-living spirit who refused to yield to his affliction. Here’s an obit by an AP colleague, Richard Pyle.