Salisbury, Harrison E(vans) (1908-1993)

US journalist. Moscow correspondent for the New York Times 1949-54, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting 1955 for his series Russia Reviewed about the terror under Stalin. He was the first journalist to visit Hanoi during the Vietnam War with a North Vietnam visa and US permission.

Remaining with the New York Times, he reported on racial tension in Birmingham, Alabama, 1960. During his 1966 visit to Hanoi he sent eyewitness reports on the US bombing of civilian targets, contributing to the growing movement against the Vietnam War in the USA. His books include Moscow Journal: The End of Stalin 1961 and The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad 1969; Behind the Lines 1967, in which he argued that US bombing of North Vietnam would prolong the war; and Orbit of China 1967 and The Long March: The Untold Story 1986.