Dr. Beverly Deepe Keever, Professor Emerita, from the University of Hawai’i presented her lecture, “Death Zones and Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting” on Mar. 4 as part of the 2014 Asian World Center Distinguished Lecture Series.

The presentation focused on her book “Death Zones and Darling Spies” in which she speaks about her experiences as a farm girl from Nebraska traveling around the world to cover the Vietnam War. During her time in Vietnam she braved combat alongside American units to observe the conflict and decoded Vietnam’s shadow world with the help of two Vietnamese interpreters, according to Keever.

Keever went on to say that while she anticipated staying in Vietnam for two weeks, she ended up staying seven years, which earned her the nomination for a Pulitzer Prize as well as the distinction of being America’s longest-serving Vietnam correspondent.

According to Keever’s biography she was a journalism professor at the University of Hawai’I for 29 years before retiring in July 2008. She has researched and wrote “News Zero: The New York Times and The Bomb.”  She was also written her memoirs of covering the Vietnam War for seven years successively for Newsweek, the New York Herald Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, and the London Daily Express.

The free event was open to the public and was sponsored by the Asian World Center, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Journalism, Media and Computing.