The great investigative journalist Robert Parry died this weekend
after an unparalleled career as a journalist, editor, and publisher. A
ferocious truth-teller, he tackled
stories that too many other reporters lacked the courage, or skills, to
tell. In this tribute by his son, Nat Parry recalls his father leaving
to cover the U.S.-backed wars in Latin American in the 1980's:
"I remember asking him why he had to go, why he couldn’t just stay at
home with us. He replied that it was important to go to these places and
tell the truth about what was happening there. He mentioned that
children my age were being killed in these wars and that somebody had to
tell their stories. I remember asking, 'Kids like me?' He replied,
'Yes, kids just like you.'"
Robert Parry, editor of Consortium News and a longtime investigative
journalist who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1985 for his Associated
Press exclusives about the CIA's production of an assassination manual
for Nicaraguan rebels, has died at age 68. According to his family,
Parry died Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018, in hospice care after a series of
strokes brought on by undiagnosed pancreatic cancer. (Photo: Provided by
Diane Duston, Parry's wife, via AP)
