Peter Kalischer (December 25, 1915 – July 5, 1991) was an American journalist best known for his reporting of the early stages of the

Vietnam War The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam a ...

in the 1960s as a television correspondent for CBS News. He won the Overseas Press Club award in 1963 for his reporting during the

Buddhist crisis The Buddhist crisis ( vi, Biến cố Phật giáo) was a period of political and religious tension in South Vietnam between May and November 1963, characterized by a series of repressive acts by the South Vietnamese government and a campaign o ...

that led to the

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of President

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of South Vietnam. In 1968, while covering the

Tet Offensive The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. It was launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) against the force ...

, he had dinner on the rooftop restaurant of the Caravelle Hotel with Walter Cronkite who was preparing a special report on the war and helped to convince him that the war could not be won militarily, that a stalemate was inevitable. From 1966 to 1978, Kalischer was the Paris correspondent and bureau chief for CBS News. He covered the Korean War, writing multiple articles about it. Kalischer later became a professor of communications at Loyola University, a position he held until 1982.

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Obituary from ''The New York Times''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kalischer, Peter 20th-century American journalists American television reporters and correspondents American war correspondents American war correspondents of the Vietnam War American male journalists Journalists from California The New Yorker people Loyola University New Orleans faculty 1915 births 1991 deaths