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Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh to speak as part of lecture series at BSU
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, who has covered major news stories stretching from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq, will speak at Boise State University Feb. 13 as part of the university’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
Hersh will speak at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Jordan Ballroom on “Chain of Command: From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib to Now.” Hersh’s lecture is free and the public is invited. No tickets are being issued; seating is limited and is available on a first-come basis. Doors open at 6 p.m.
“We are very pleased to announce that we have had the opportunity to add Seymour Hersh to our 2005-06 lecture schedule,” said Helen Lojek, chair of the Distinguished Lecture Series Committee and an English professor at Boise State.
“Over the past 35 years, Hersh has established himself as one of the top investigative reporters in the nation. We are looking forward to a lecture that should be both thought-provoking and relevant.”
Hersh won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1970 for breaking the story of the killing rampage by the Army’s 11th Infantry Brigade in the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. He also has received four George Polk Awards for excellence in reporting, and more than a dozen other journalism prizes, many of them for his work at The New York Times. In 2004, Hersh won a National Magazine Award for Public Interest for his pieces on intelligence and the Iraq war. Since 1993, he has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker.
Hersh’s upcoming lecture topic is drawn in part from his 2004 book, “Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib.” In the lecture, Hersh will discuss the behind-the-scenes events that influenced American foreign policy, from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center to the decision to launch the Iraq War to the ongoing efforts to secure the peace in Iraq.
Hersh is the author of seven other books, including “The Dark Side of Camelot,” about John F. Kennedy, “The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House,” which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and The Los Angeles Times Book Award, and “The Target is Destroyed: What Really Happened to Flight 007 and What America Knew About It.”
Free parking for the Feb. 13 lecture is available in the Student Union visitor lot, the Bronco Stadium parking lot, and on Bronco Lane.
The student-funded Distinguished Lecture Series brings to campus speakers who have had a major impact in politics, the arts, science, business or in another realm of contemporary significance. On April 12, the series will present Joseph Stiglitz, a Columbia University professor, former chief economist for the World Bank and the 2001 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Stiglitz will speak on “The Economics of Information.”
Former speakers in the series include religion historian and author Karen Armstrong, biologist E.O. Wilson, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former president of Poland Lech Walesa, hostage negotiator Terry Waite, and others.
Courtesy BSU News Services
