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Don Whitehead is a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent for the Associated Press. He is cited for his first-hand coverage under fire of the Marine crossing of the Han River during the Korean War. As one of three newsmen accompanying President-elect Eisenhower on a secret trip to Korea in 1952, he won his second Pulitzer Prize. Whitehead covered World War II in North Africa and in Europe and landed with the first assault troops in France on D-Day. He was the first reporter to enter Paris before its capture by the Allies. Whitehead was awarded the Medal of Freedom by the U.S. Army for achievement as a war correspondent; he also received a Polk Award for distinguished reporting. Whitehead covered domestic events and politics for the Associated Press. He also wrote five books. Born at the Kentucky-Virginia border, Whitehead spent his boyhood in Harlan. He attended the University of Kentucky and was awarded an honorary degree in 1948. Whitehead received early newspaper experience on the Harlan Daily Enterprise and the Knoxville Journal. He was later Washington bureau chief of the New York Herald-Tribune. Don Whitehead died on January 12, 1981.

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