12 Facts About Harrison Salisbury

Harrison Salisbury graduated from Minneapolis North High School in 1925 and the University of Minnesota in 1930.

Harrison Salisbury spent nearly 20 years with United Press, much of it overseas, and was UP's foreign editor during the last two years of World War II.

Harrison Salisbury twice received the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting.

Harrison Salisbury obtained permission in 1966, both from the government of North Vietnam and from the US State Department, to visit North Vietnam.

Harrison Salisbury reported that American bombing of North Vietnam had been less effective in weakening North Vietnam's transportation system than the US government had been claiming, while hitting North Vietnamese civilians more than US spokesmen had been admitting.

Harrison Salisbury's reports were the first that genuinely questioned the American air war.

Harrison Salisbury was interviewed in the anti-Vietnam War documentary film In the Year of the Pig.

Harrison Salisbury toured America for Esquire, for which the Xerox company paid him $55,000.

Harrison Salisbury reported extensively from Communist China, where, in 1989, he witnessed the bloody government crackdown on the student demonstration in Tiananmen Square.

Harrison Salisbury was an Eagle Scout and a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America.

Harrison Salisbury was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Harrison Salisbury died in Providence, Rhode Island at age 84.