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The History Hour: Dickey Chapelle - War Reporter

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05/11/2016 GMT

Dickey Chapelle - War Reporter

BBC World Service - The History Hour, Dickey Chapelle - War Reporter

The pioneering American woman journalist; life in Mao's China; and Harry Houdini.

The pioneering American woman journalist; life in Mao's China; Mexican writer Octavio Paz; and the real Harry Houdini.

On this week's programme, how pioneering American woman war reporter, Dickey Chapelle, was killed in Vietnam; plus two very different perspectives on Mao's China, Mexican writer Octavio Paz and the escape which made Harry Houdini's name.

PHOTO: Dickey Chapelle during a US Marines operation in 1958 (Credit: US Marine Corps / Associated Press)

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