Edwin Quigley White

Background

White was born on August 29, 1922, in Tipton, Missouri.

Education

University of Missouri.

Career

Professionally, he was known as Quigley by colleagues. Those same colleagues also nicknamed him "unflappable Editor" for his calm demeanor in a crisis, particularly during his more than ten-year assignment covering the Vietnam War. He was interested in how Tipton"s weekly newspaper was published as a child and decided to pursue journalism as a career.

He received a bachelor"s degree from the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri.

He joined the United States Army during World World War World War II Once World World War II ended, White and his unit were sent from the Philippines to of Korea to help with the repatriation of Japanese troops from Korean Peninsula back to Japan. He also joined the staff of the Pacific Stars and Stripes, an Asian edition of the United States. military newspaper, Stars and Stripes, while stationed in Asia during the postwar.

He then worked for five years at newspapers in both Kansas and Missouri after returning to the United States following World World War World War II One of his bosses recommended that he apply for a job at the Associated Press when he discussed his interest in reporting overseas. White joined the staff of the Associated Press" bureau in Kansas City in 1949.

He then transferred to the Associated Press"s New York City office in 1954.

He became the news editor for the Associated Press" Tokyo bureau, where the Associated Press"s Asian operations were headquartered, in 1960. During the early 1960s, White had long-term assignments covering the growing conflict in Vietnam, which required him to commute between Tokyo and South Vietnam. White"s tenure as bureau chief ended with the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.

White fled the city on one of the final helicopters to take off from the roof of the United States Embassy, Saigon.

White returned to the Tokyo bureau after the end of the Vietnam War. He moved to Hawaii in 1979, but transferred to the Associated Press"s Seoul bureau in 1980.

He was sent to Seoul to help the Associated Press"s South Korean staff, who were dealing with increasing restriction on the media from the government of former President Chun Doo-hwan. He retired from the Associated Press in 1987 and moved to Hawaii.

White had been suffering from congestive heart failure during his later years.

He died in his sleep at his home in Honolulu on November 1, 2012, at the age of 90. He had lived in Honolulu since his retirement in 1987. John Daniszewski, the current senior managing editor for international news at the Associated Press, praised White for his long career with the news agency, "Editor White led an extraordinary Associated Press bureau that covered the American involvement in Vietnam from its start through the fall of Saigon in 1975..He embodied accuracy, dispassion and objectivity in his reporting, and his contribution to the telling of that history will never be forgotten by his colleagues".

Achievements

• Achievements include patent for aviator protective helmet. Research on physiological responses to acceleration, altitude, thermal extremes, decompression, and prolonged exposure to artificial gaseous environments.

Connections

Friend:

Ho Chi

associate:

Roy Essoyan