I knew Homer Bigart. He wrote a very critical story about me in the NY Times and never had the courtesy to pick up the phone and call me for a comment on my side of the story. A few years later when I met him at the Calley trial, I asked him why he had never called me to comment on the story he wrote. His wife, who traveled with him and took notes for him, grabbed him by the sleeve and pulled him away. I never did get a reply to my question. At the Calley trial, he was despised by many of the other reporters as a hugely ballooned stuffed shirt riding out his days at the Times on his Pulitzer, or Pulitzers, can't remember which. I sidled up to him once in the Army's press room at Fort Benning near the building where the Calley trial was held and told him he was a small man.
I knew Homer Bigart. He wrote a very critical story about me in the NY Times and never had the courtesy to pick up the phone and call me for a comment on my side of the story. A few years later when I met him at the Calley trial, I asked him why he had never called me to comment on the story he wrote. His wife, who traveled with him and took notes for him, grabbed him by the sleeve and pulled him away. I never did get a reply to my question. At the Calley trial, he was despised by many of the other reporters as a hugely ballooned stuffed shirt riding out his days at the Times on his Pulitzer, or Pulitzers, can't remember which. I sidled up to him once in the Army's press room at Fort Benning near the building where the Calley trial was held and told him he was a small man.
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