The General Goes Zapping Charlie Cong
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"The General Goes Zapping Charlie Cong" is an example of The New Journalism[1] by Nicholas Tomalin, an English journalist, in 1966. It relates a day’s activities of General James F. Hollingsworth during the Vietnam War. It first appeared in the British newspaper The Sunday Times.
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Nicholas Tomalin (30 October 1931 – 17 October 1973) was an English investigative reporter and foreign correspondent who wrote for various London newspapers. He died while reporting the 1973 Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War. Tomalin wrote "The General Goes Zapping Charlie Cong" for the weekly London paper The Sunday Times, which ran the story on 5 June 1966.
General James Francis Hollingsworth (24 March 1918 – 2 March 2010) was born in Sanger, Texas on a family farm. He graduated from Texas A&M in 1940 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. A decorated and battle-hardened World War II veteran, Hollingsworth was a 48-year-old Brigadier General when Tomalin wrote this Sunday Times article.