Beecher, William

William Beecher is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. He also served as a top official of the Defense Department and the Nuclear Regulatory Agency, winning prestigious medals from DOD and the White House for his work in government. He spent two to three months abroad for more than 25 years reporting in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Far East, including five trips to Vietnam during that war. He was shot down in a helicopter over the Mekong Delta and in a single engine Cessna over the Sinai deser...