Journalist Seymour (Sy) Hersh discussed foreign policy on campus

Fort Worth, TX

2/27/2008

TCU's Center for Civic Literacy hosted "A Conversation with Seymour Hersh on Foreign Policy" Tuesday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Ed Landreth Auditorium on campus. Admission was free to faculty, staff and students with a valid TCU ID, or $10 to the public. The event is part of the Center for Civic Literacy's spring lectureship series. Visit the TCU Magazine's web site for a complete story.

Seymour Hersh is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of eight books. He worked as a correspondent for the Associated Press beginning in 1963. Hersh gained worldwide recognition for his exposure of the My Lai Massacre and cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he later received the Pulitzer Prize. More recently, he uncovered the abuse of detainees in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq by U.S. military personnel.

For more information on the Center For Civic Literacy visit http://www.civlit.tcu.edu/. For more information on the lectureship series, contact Karen Anisman, associate director of the Center for Civic Literacy at 817-257-5004 or k.anisman@tcu.edu.