How Journalist Bill Cunningham, a Wartime Friend, Talked the Khmer Rouge Out of Killing Us in Cambodia

Canadian correspondent, who died in February, is remembered and applauded by his many friends at a service at Toronto.

Via Agota Cunningham
Canadian journalist Bill Cunningham. Via Agota Cunningham

Bill Cunningham, who died at Toronto four months ago, was  among the best friends I made during the war in Vietnam. I first met Bill and his wife, Agota, a ballet dancer in her youth in Hungary, in a crowd of demonstrators in 1967 in Hong Kong at the height of Mao’s Great Cultural Revolution. He was with CBC, Canadian Broadcasting, and I was with the late, much lamented Evening Star in Washington. I owe him my life.

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