David Halberstam, 73, Reporter and Author, Dies - New York Times

David Halberstam, 73, Reporter and Author, Dies - New York Times: "David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and tireless author of books on topics as varied as America’s military failings in Vietnam, the deaths of firefighters at the World Trade Center and the high-pressure world of professional basketball, was killed yesterday in a car crash south of San Francisco. He was 73, and lived in Manhattan."