![]() ![]() But as the conflict dragged on, and the American body count rose, he came to believe that the Vietnam War was unwinnable. involvement in Vietnam, believing it was necessary to stop the advance of communism, said the Associated Press. Like many others, he initially supported U.S. In 1958, Time made Karnow its Southeast Asia bureau chief. “Oh, that little Swedish thing,” Karnow quoted him as saying. Over the next decade, Karnow covered strikes and France’s war in Algeria, said the Los Angeles Times, but also had a “memorable, if regrettably brief, encounter” with Audrey Hepburn, and once interviewed a drunken Ernest Hemingway, who had just won the Nobel Prize for literature. Bill money to enroll at a university in Paris in 1948, where he started to write dispatches for U.S. He joined the Army Air Forces, and spent much of the war in the mountains between China and India, monitoring the weather. “It didn’t take me long to realize I wanted out.” World War II offered an escape. ![]() “I was a typical Jewish kid in a lace-curtained, cloistered environment,” he said. ![]() Born in Brooklyn, Karnow grew up craving adventure, said The Washington Post. ![]()
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