William Tuohy

William "Bill" Tuohy (October 1, 1926 – December 31, 2009) was a journalist and author who, for most of his career, was a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.

[2][3] At the San Francisco Chronicle, Tuohy gained promotion to reporter and, eventually, editor on the city desk.

Tuohy was appointed Newsweek's foreign correspondent in Saigon in 1965, just as the United States was entering the Vietnam War.

In 1969 Tuohy won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his Vietnam War correspondence the previous year.

[3] In 1989, he published a memoir, Dangerous Company, Inside the World's Hottest Trouble Spots with a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Correspondent.

The book told the story of the war from the perspective of Navy Admirals such as Marc Mitscher, the commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force and John S. McCain, Sr.[3] Tuohy died December 31, 2009, following open-heart surgery in Santa Monica, California.