Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War, has died

Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported on Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported on Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died LOS ANGELES (AP) - Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died. He was 91. Associated Press correspondent Peter Arnett stands with gear that he carries out in field while covering the Vietnamese army 1963, in Saigon, Vietnam. (AP Photo, File) FILE - Newly-landed U.S. Marines make their way through the sands of Red Beach at Da Nang, Vietnam, on their way to reinforce the air base as South Vietnamese Rangers battled guerrillas several miles south of the beach, April 10, 1965. (AP Photo/Peter Arnett, File) FILE - A paratrooper of the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade clutches his helmet as he takes cover during a North Vietnamese mortar attack in Vietnam, Nov. 21, 1967. (AP Photo/Peter Arnett, File) FILE - A South Vietnamese army medic feeds a wounded North Vietnamese prisoner in Xuan Loc, Vietnam, April 13, 1975. (AP Photo/Peter Arnett, File) FILE - Associated Press correspondent Peter Arnett, front center right, poses for a photo with other AP staff members at the AP Saigon bureau in Vietnam, April 18, 1972. The staff includes, front row from left, George Esper, Carl Robinson, Arnett, and Ed White and back row, from left, Hugh Mulligan, chief Vietnamese reporter Huynh Minh Trinh, Holger Jensen, Richard Blystone, Max Nash and Richard Pyle. (AP Photo, File) Associated Press correspondent Peter Arnett sits for a portrait in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 18, 1963. (AP Photo, File) Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his Vietnam War coverage for The Associated Press, died Wednesday in Newport Beach and was surrounded by friends and family, said his son Andrew Arnett. He had been suffering from prostate cancer. “Peter Arnett was one of the greatest war correspondents of his generation - intrepid, fearless, and a beautiful writer and storyteller. His reporting in print and on camera will remain a legacy for aspiring journalists and historians for generations to come,” said Edith Lederer, who was a fellow AP war correspondent in Vietnam in 1972-73 and is now AP’s chief correspondent at the United Nations. As a wire-service correspondent, Arnett was known mostly to fellow journalists when he reported in Vietnam from 1962 until the war’s end in 1975. He became something of a household name in 1991, however, after he broadcast live updates for CNN from Iraq during the first Gulf War. While almost all Western reporters had fled Baghdad in the days before the U.S.-led attack, Arnett stayed. As missiles began raining on the city, he broadcast a live account by cellphone from his hotel room. “There was an explosion right near me, you may have heard,” he said in a calm, New Zealand-accented voice moments after the loud boom of...

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