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Women Journalists came of age in WWII, but Vietnam was where they transformed the female war correspondent from a novelty into the norm. During the Vietnam War, women reporters flocked to combat as never before. Women who couldn’t find a publication or an editor willing to send them bought their own tickets to Saigon and became stringers for publications willing to buy their work but not hire them as staff. Denby Fawcett quit her job as a society reporter in Honolulu to pay her own way to Saigon. Jurate Kazickas, who couldn’t find a publication to hire her, paid for her plane ticket with $500 she won on the TV show “Password.” The loose military restrictions made reporting in Vietnam the most accessible war of its time for women. This presentation tells the women’s stories as they covered everything from jungle combat operations to the carnage visited upon the civilian population. Their reporting won every prize in the book from the Polk Award, and the Emmy, to the Pulitzer Prize. <br /><br />Patricia DelGiorno has made an extensive study of women’s roles in War and has participated in World Wars I and II studies at Cambridge and Oxford Universities which she lectures and gives presentations on: In 2013 she completed a Master’s Thesis entitled “Crossing Borders - Women Secret Agents of Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) in WWII. <br /><br />Presented by Great Neck library, no registration necessary. Join Zoom Meeting. https://zoom.us/j/93534186765?pwd=Q0Zoc3E3NmZ2Mmh0ZStwT21nbnBQdz09<br /><br />Meeting ID: 935 3418 6765<br />Passcode: 384237