"Bruce Dunning, the CBS News correspondent whose 1975 television report on the last flight from Da Nang vividly captured the frantic end of the Vietnam War, died Monday in New York at the age of 73."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57600159/bruce-dunning-cbs-news-correspondent-who-reported-the-last-flight-from-da-nang-dies-at-73/ At the link you can see the full five minute, thirty second report (as the obit notes, long even by the standards of the day) he calleded "Back from Da Nang" (introduced dramatically by Rather with: "Da Nang has become a Dunkirk"). The piece won the Overseas Press Club's "Best TV News Spot from Abroad" award and was recently named to the Columbia University Journalism School's list of tje 100 Great Stories. At the end of the obit is this brief note: "Dunning is survived by his life partner, the artist Tetsunori Kawana; a brother, Alan, and his sister-in-law, Anne, who live in Manhattan." This is being seen by some today as the first time Dunning is publicly identified as a gay man - and also that it was Dunning's way of outing himself. Once or twice before on this list I have asked about the obit policies about this kind of thing - I am still trying to understand if a public figure like Dunning (especially a journalist) might have some mechanism for writing or shaping his own obit, and whether he might have specifically said that he wanted to be outed in this low key way. Also, I am interested if anyone knows if he had previously been publicly identified as gay. We are getting to the day when this won't matter at all, but as it is it still does in some places, and I would like to make sure this is characterized accurately. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
