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Reporter Phil McCombs
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Phil McCombs
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Born in upstate New York, Phil McCombs grew up there and in California and Arizona. He began his journalism career as a copy boy at The Arizona Republic, "in the days when deskmen shouted at you when their supply of those thick old copy pencils got low." He studied English literature at Yale and international politics and economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies – "hoping," he says, "the Vietnam war would end soon."
It didn’t, and he was drafted into the Army. During his tour in Vietnam he served as sergeant in charge of the Saigon bureau of Pacific Stars & Stripes, the military newspaper. He came to work for The Washington Post in 1970 and was again sent to Saigon three years later, remaining The Post’s correspondent there until the fall of Indochina in April 1975. A longtime reporter for the Metro section, McCombs is now a staff writer for Style. E-mail: mccombsp@washpost.com
Frank Johnston at Khe Sanh in 1967.
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Photographer Frank Johnston
After graduating from high school, Johnston attended the University of Pennsylvania and served in the U.S. Marine Corps. He entered the field of photojournalism in 1963 as a staff photographer for UPI News pictures in Texas – where one of his first assignments was covering the assassination of President Kennedy. Later, he became UPI's bureau manager in Philadelphia and then served as a combat photographer in Vietnam.
Johnston joined the staff of The Washington Post in October 1968 and has covered stories ranging from Watergate to the opening of the Berlin Wall to the tragedy in Jonestown, Guyana. In 1983 Johnston was awarded an Alicia Patterson fellowship, which allowed him to travel for one year throughout the United States photographing social and economic changes.
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Johnston and McCombs reporting in Vietnam in March 1998.
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Johnston has co-authored two books and has been named Photographer of the Year three times by the White House News Photographers Association. He currently covers local, national and international stories for The Washington Post. E-mail: johnstonf@washpost.com
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