About Dana Adams Schmidt
Lived 1915 – 1994 (aged 78). Dana Adams Schmidt was a journalist.
Dana Adams Schmidt (September 6, 1915 - August 25, 1994) was an American journalist. From 1943 to 1972, he was a correspondent for The New York Times covering Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. In 1963, he won the George Polk Award for "the best reporting requiring exceptional courage and enterprise abroad" for a series on Kurdish rebels in Iraq.
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American journalist
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Dana Adams Schmidt was born on 6 September 1915.
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Dana Adams Schmidt died on 25 August 1994.
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Dana Adams Schmidt was a journalist.
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