Famous people visit "the Beach," too

photo courtesy to Glenn Brown

For CSULB students who often complain about the lack of visiting celebrities to the campus, "My Lai 4" author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh will be part of the Distinguished Speakers Series at the Carpenter Center tomorrow afternoon.

Seymour Hersh is a legend in the journalistic world--a leading investigative reporter in the field. Known for his modern-day muckraking stories, Hersh has a covered controversial government scandals from Watergate to CIA domestic spying to the torture of Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison.

The story that garnered Hersh worldwide recognition and the Pulitzer Prize, however, was his exposé on the massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians at point-blank by U.S. soldiers (My Lai Massacre). The story not only amassed widespread outrage and opposition to the Vietnam War, but also exposed the U.S. government's attempt to hide the story from the media for nearly a year.

Slaughtered woman, children, infants and elderly.
photo by Ronald L. Haeberle

Tickets for tomorrow's lecture are still available and may be purchased at the Carpenter Center box office or online.