Peter Arnett Biography
Peter Arnett ONZM is a journalist from New Zealand. He is well-known for his coverage of the Vietnam and Gulf Wars. He won the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 1966 for his work in Vietnam from 1962 to 1965, mostly for the Associated Press.
Peter Arnett Age
Arnett is 87 years old as of 2021. She was born on 13 November 1934 in Riverton / Aparima, New Zealand.
Peter Arnett Family
Arnett is the son of Peter Arnett, who was a reporter, and a Vietnamese woman whose brother was in the Viet Cong.
Peter Arnett Wife
Arnett married Nina Nguyen, a Vietnamese woman, in 1964. Elsa and Andrew were their two children. Nina and Peter divorced in 1983, reconciled in 2006, and then divorced again. She collaborated with her father on his memoir about his reporting career, which was published in 1994. Elsa Arnett is married to John Yoo, a former White House lawyer.
Peter Arnett Education
Arnett attended Stuyvesant High School and Harvard University in New York. She went into journalism after graduation, becoming a reporter, interning at The Washington Post for several months before joining The Boston Globe.
Peter Arnett Vietnam
In July 1963, Arnett was injured in what became known as the Double Seven Day scuffle between western journalists and South Vietnamese police. His articles about events during Operation Starlite enraged the US government, which had been increasing its presence in the region. He accompanied troops on dozens of missions, including the November 1967 battle of Hill 875. Arnett traveled to Hanoi, North Vietnam, in September 1972, to accept three American prisoners of war for return to the United States. John Arnett’s account of the Battle of B n Tre was published on February 7, 1968, and is regarded as one of his most famous dispatches. The original quotation’s accuracy and source have frequently been called into question. Arnett reaffirmed the quotation in Walter Cronkite’s 1971 book, Eye on the World, as something “one American major said to me in a moment of revelation.”
Peter Arnett Salary
Arnett has been very secretive with his annual pay scale as of now, 2021. However, there is no doubt that he has been accustomed to good pay in terms of salary as he has been able to work with profound films. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more information on the same from our trusted sources.
Peter Arnett Net Worth
Arnett has an estimated net worth of $7 million.
Peter Arnett Operation Tailwind
Arnett narrated a report for NewsStand in 1998, covering “Operation Tailwind” in Laos in 1970. According to the report, the US Army used sarin, a nerve gas, against a group of deserting US soldiers in Laos. During Operation Tailwind, all 12 members of the Green Beret A-Team were wounded in action, but no sarin was used. CNN later conducted its own investigation and withdrew the story.
Peter Arnett Gulf War
Arnett worked for CNN for 18 years, beginning in 1981 and ending in 1999. During the Gulf War, he became a household name around the world as the only reporter to provide live coverage from Baghdad, particularly during the first 16 hours. His gripping reports were frequently accompanied by the sound of air raid sirens and US bombs exploding in the background. For the first 16 hours of the war, Arnett and two other CNN journalists, Bernard Shaw and John Holliman, provided continuous coverage from Baghdad. Although 40 foreign journalists were present at the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad at the time, only CNN had the means to communicate with the outside world — a private phone line connected to neighboring Amman, Jordan.
CNN aired Arnett’s extended call live for several hours, with a video of Arnett. Other journalists, including two CNN colleagues, soon left Iraq, leaving Arnett as the sole remaining reporter. The coalition war administration did not like his accounts of civilian damage caused by the bombing. Its public statements emphasized terms like “smart bombs” and “surgical precision” in an attempt to project that civilian casualties would be kept to a minimum. White House sources would later accuse Arnett of being used as a tool for Iraqi disinformation.
Two weeks into the war, Arnett was able to obtain an exclusive, uncensored interview with Saddam Hussein. For five weeks, the Gulf War was the first to be broadcast live on television, thanks to Arnett’s reporting from the “other side.”
Representatives from the CIA approached Arnett about halfway through the war. They suspected the Iraqi military was running a high-level communication network from the basement of the Al Rashid Hotel, where Arnett and other CNN employees were staying. The CIA wanted Arnett to leave so that the Air Force could bomb the hotel, but he refused. He claimed he was given a tour of the hotel and denied the existence of such a facility.
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