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Journalist Seymour Hersh has investigated many of the important political and military issues of the last forty-plus years. This week he will be in Eugene and Portland discussing the efficacy of torture.
The son of immigrant parents from Lithuania and Poland, Hersh began his journalism career in 1959 as a police reporter in Chicago. He later worked in South Dakota, then Washington, DC. There he met and befriended the famous investigative journalist I.F. Stone.
Hersh gained worldwide recognition – and a Pulitzer Prize – in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, and its ensuing cover-up. In 1972, Hersh was hired as a reporter for the Washington Bureau of The New York Times, where he worked off and on during the 1970s.
Topics Hersh has written about include Gulf War Syndrome, the treatment of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib, and controversial CIA projects. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters.
This Thursday, February 18, he will speak in Eugene on “The Question of Torture.” This free event will be at 7PM in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom at the University of Oregon. On Friday at 5:30, he will reprise the lecture at the U of O’s campus in Portland at 70 NW Couch Street. The main lecture room has already filled up, but limited seating might still be available in a satellite room. You can call 1-800-280-6218 or visit http://center.uoregon.edu/WSB/hershlecture to reserve a spot.
Image credit New Mexico State University.
