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Peter Kalischer

Career[edit]

Kalischer covered the Korean War as the war correspondent from United Press, writing multiple articles about it.^[1][2]

He won the Overseas Press Club award in 1963 for his reporting during the Buddhist crisis that led to the fall of President Ngo Dinh DiemofSouth Vietnam. In 1968, while covering the Tet Offensive, he had dinner on the rooftop restaurant of the Caravelle Hotel with Walter Cronkite who was preparing a special report on the war and helped to convince him that the war could not be won militarily, that a stalemate was inevitable. From 1966 to 1978, Kalischer was the Paris correspondent and bureau chief for CBS News.

Kalischer later became a professor of communications at Loyola University, a position he held until 1982.

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He is survived by his wife, Gloria Uemura; two sons, Peter Mark of Tokyo and David Murray of Kyushu, Japan, and one granddaughter, Danielle.

Articles[edit]

• Kalischer, Peter (15 January 1949). "Hot Jidosha". The New Yorker. Vol. 24, no. 47. pp. 58–63.
• Kalischer, Peter (24 June 1955). "'Mr. Attack' goes to Washington". Collier's. 135 (13): 27–31.
• Kalischer, Peter (2 March 1956). "Japan". Collier's. 137 (5): 58–65.

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External links[edit]

• Obituary from The New York Times