Expert panel to discuss life, work of female war correspondent Dickey Chapelle

Former Washington Post war correspondent Jackie Spinner will join veteran United Nations reporter and Vietnam War correspondent Edith Lederer and Iraq war veteran John Garofolo to discuss the life and work of Dickey Chapelle on at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 29, in the Murrow room.

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Chapelle was a trailblazing woman who reported on war for more than 20 years beginning with the bloody World War II Pacific battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

She continued covering conflicts around the world. Her stories on the Hungarian uprising, Algerian war with France and Cuban Revolution appeared in Life, Reader's Digest and National Geographic.

Chapelle was killed while on a patrol with the Marines in Vietnam in 1965, becoming the first American female war correspondent killed while covering combat operations.

The event is sponsored by the Club's Photography Committee and will included a panel discussion, question and answer session and a signing of Garofolo's book, "Dickey Chapelle Under Fire: Photographs by the First American Female War Correspondent Killed in Action."