David Sherman Lamb (March 5, 1940 – June 5, 2016)[1] was a freelance writer who traveled the world for twenty-five years as a Los Angeles Times correspondent.
For most of his high school education, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy, where he ran a gambling ring, and was nicknamed “The Joker.” At Exeter, Lamb was friends with Benno Schmidt, who later became president of Yale University; Lamb was expelled after the school's administration searched his dorm room over winter break, and even hired a locksmith to open up his locked box of IOUs.
He began his career with The Okinawa Morning Star, then moved on to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and the Oakland Tribune.
He then joined United Press International in San Francisco and Denver; from 1968 to 1970, he worked as a battlefront correspondent in Saigon.
He covered the fall of Saigon in April 1975 on a temporary assignment for The Los Angeles Times.