Wallace Terry to Receive Journalism Honor
The journalist, author, and Vietnam War correspondent Wallace Terry, who received the VVA Excellence in the Arts Award in 1989, will be inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists’ Hall of Fame in January. In addition to Terry, who died in 2003, Gwen Ifill, Johnathan Rodgers, Ruth Allen Ollison, and Pat Harvey will be inducted during the ceremonies, which will take place January 26 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. During the last 19 years, NABJ has inducted more than 45 journalists into its Hall of Fame.
“In 1967, Wallace Terry became deputy bureau chief for Time magazine in Saigon. His two years of Vietnam War reporting included coverage of the Tet Offensive and scores of combat missions with American and South Vietnamese pilots, ” the NABJ said in announcing Terry’s selection. “In addition to writing for USA TODAY and Parade magazine, Terry was an award-winning author, producer and public speaker.”
Terry’s book, Bloods , an oral history of African-Americans who served in Vietnam, is a classic of Vietnam War nonfiction. He was a good friend of Vietnam Veterans of America, having organized VVA’s big Rendezvous With War academic conference on the Vietnam War in 2000 at the College of William and Mary, and was a regular contributor to The VVA Veteran .
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