Edwin Quigley White (August 29, 1922 – November 1, 2012) was an American journalist who served as the Saigon bureau chief for the Associated Press from 1965 until 1975 during the height of the Vietnam War.
Once World War II ended, White and his unit were sent from the Philippines to Korea to help with the repatriation of Japanese troops from Korean Peninsula back to Japan.
[1] In 1965, as the war between the United States and North Vietnam began to escalate, White was named the Associated Press' bureau chief in Saigon (now known as Ho Chi Minh City).
He was sent to Seoul to help the AP's South Korean staff, who were dealing with increasing restriction on the media from the government of former President Chun Doo-hwan.
[1] John Daniszewski, the current senior managing editor for international news at the Associated Press, praised White for his long career with the news agency, "Ed White led an extraordinary AP bureau that covered the American involvement in Vietnam from its start through the fall of Saigon in 1975...He embodied accuracy, dispassion and objectivity in his reporting, and his contribution to the telling of that history will never be forgotten by his colleagues".