An exhibit has opened at UT Arlington that highlights the work of Bob Schieffer covering the war in Vietnam when he worked for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Schieffer was born in Austin, grew up in Fort Worth and graduated from TCU.
“Our Man in Viet Nam” includes letters sent to Schieffer and the Star-Telegram when he was working in Vietnam. The paper had sent him there to cover the war.
“I covered a lot of stories, but I never felt the way I did, I never got the response I got when I would tell kids, ‘Hi, I’m Bob Schieffer from the Star-Telegram, and your mother asked me to find out how you’re doing,” Schieffer said at the unveiling of the exhibit. “I remember kids who would absolutely break into sobbing tears. They were lonesome, they were in a place many of them had never heard of, like me, when they were sent off to Vietnam. I think just a word from home helped them through a dark and very difficult situation.”…