Marguerite Higgins Hall
Marguerite Higgins Hall, the wife of Lieutenant General William Hall, United States Air Force, she was born in 1920. She was an award winning foreign correspondent who covered many wars, including Korea and Vietnam.
She died in Washington, D.C. on January 3, 1966 of a disease which she apparently contracted while in Vietnam.
Marguerite Higgins was a daring reporter and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer for war correspondence. When the United States became involved in Vietnam, she used her position as a famous war correspondent to speak out against it. She wrote newspaper articles, editorial columns, and a book, Our Vietnam Nightmare, telling the people why America should not be involved. She is buried in Section 2 of Arlington National Cemetery.
Georgette Dickey Chapelle
Dickey Chapelle, born Georgette Meyer (1919-1965) was an American photojournalist known for her work as a war correspondent from World War II through the Vietnam War.
Chapelle was born in Shorewood, Wisconsin. By the age of sixteen, she was attending aeronautical design classes at MIT. She soon returned home, where she worked at a local airfield, hoping to learn to pilot airplanes instead of merely designing them. However, when her mother learned that she was also having an affair with one of the pilots, Chapelle was forced to live in Florida with her grandparents.
Eventually, she moved to New York, and met her future husband, Tony Chapelle, and began working as a photographer sponsored by Trans World Airlines. She eventually became a professional, and later, after fifteen years of marriage, divorced Tony, and changed her first name to Dickey.
Despite her mediocre photographic credentials, Chapelle managed to become a war correspondent photojournalist for National Geographic, and with one of her first assignments, was posted with the Marines during World War II.
After the war, she travelled all around the world, often going to extraordinary lengths to cover a story in any war zone. She later learned to jump with paratroopers, and usually travelled with troops. This led to frequent awards, and earned the respect of both the military and journalistic community.
An outspoken anti-Communist, she loudly expressed her pro-American views at the beginning of the Vietnam War.
Chapelle was killed by a landmine, while on patrol with Marines, outside Chu Lai, Vietnam, in 1965. She became the first war correspondent killed in Vietnam, as well as the first female reporter to be killed during battle.
Philippa Schuyler
Philippa D. Schuyler was born in 1931. She was an African-American concert pianist. She lived in Texas, with her parents. Her father, George S. Schuyler, a well-known Black American writer. Her mother, Josephine Cogdell, came from a wealthy white Texas ranching and finance family. Schuyler was raised in an environment of importance on intelligence and artistic expression.
At age seven, her IQ was tested and measured 180. She graduated from elementary school at age ten. By age 13, Philippa had written over 100 compositions. For her thirteen birthday, she completed "Manhattan Nocturne", her first orchestra work, scored for 100 instruments. The New York Philharmonic performed this piece during the last performance of the Young People's Concert 1944-45 season. She graduated high shcool at age fifteen, and she wrote "The Rhapsody Of Youth", in honor of the inauguration of Haitian president, Paul Magloire. She was knighted for her work and gave command performances for Ethiopia’s Halie Selassie and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium.
Philippa Schuyler was a devoted Catholic, fluent in several languages, and wrote several books. She began a career in journalism as a news correspondent just before her death. Philippa Schuyler was killed in a helicopter crash into the ocean near Da Nang, May 9, 1967.
