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August 03, 2005
AP: Vincent Wanted To Be The Next Jack Kerouac
Verena Dobnik of the Associated Press reported August 3, 2005 that American freelance Journalists Steven Vincent, who was killed August 2, 2005 in Basra, Iraq, "apparently had feared the worst. In July, his New York friend, Steven Mumford, heard from Vincent, who had been his roommate in Baghdad last year," she wrote.
Ms. Dobnik quoted Mr. Mumford as saying: "He wrote me an e-mail that he had a lot of information which, if published in a major venue, he could get killed for it."
And so he did, after publishing a piece in the July 31, 2005 issue of The New York Times headlined "Switched Off in Basra." It was published August 1, 2005 in the International Herald Tribune (IHT), which is owned by the New York Times Company. The IHT headline is "The Islamists who police Basra's streets".
For more, see "Journalist killed in Iraq modeled himself after Jack Kerouac." Mr. Kerouac was an American writer, novelist and poet of the "Beat Generation," a term he reportedly introduced into the American lexicon.
Posted by Munir Umrani at August 3, 2005 07:56 PM
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