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April 14, 2015
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Croft Visiting Speaker: The Fall of Saigon and Lessons Unlearned

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 7 p.m. - The Joseph C. Bancroft Conference Room (Croft 107) - Mr. H.D.S. Greenway

As we approach the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, which occurred on April 30, 1975, the Croft Institute will host H.D.S. Greenway, a journalist who worked as a foreign correspondent for Time magazine, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe.  Mr. Greenway reported extensively from Vietnam during the conflict, and will speak on Tuesday, April 14, about the lessons the world failed to learn from the fall of Saigon.

H.D.S. (David) Greenway was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1935. He was educated at Yale, Oxford, and with Nieman and Shorenstein fellowships at Harvard. He served in the U.S. Navy. As a journalist he worked for Time magazine in its London, Washington, Saigon, Hong Kong, Bangkok, and United Nations bureaus. For the Washington Post he was stationed in Washington, Hong Kong, Saigon, and Jerusalem. He has reported on conflicts and civil unrest in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, Burma, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, El Salvador, Nicaragua, South Africa, and Northern Ireland.

Mr. Greenway was National and Foreign Editor, Editorial Page Editor, and foreign affairs columnist for the Boston Globe.  He was awarded a bronze star with a combat V by the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam, the Edward Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting, and a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.  He has written articles for the New York Times, World Policy Journal, the International Herald Tribune, Global Post, the New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books. He is the author of Foreign Correspondent, a Memoir.  He is married to JB Greenway and lives in Needham, Massachusetts.

H.D.S. Greenway will also visit Square Books on Monday, April 13th, at 5:00 p.m. for an informal discussion and book signing on his publication, Foreign Correspondent: A Memoir