Nate Thayer, a fearless reporter who survived several brushes with death over decades covering conflict in Southeast Asia, has died. He was the last western journalist to interview Pol Pot, the leader of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.
Pol Pot, “an anguished old man, frail and struggling to maintain his dignity, was watching his life vision crumble in utter, final defeat,” he wrote.
“Ted Koppel and ‘Nightline’ literally stole my work, took credit for it, trivialized it, refused to pay me and then attempted to bully and extort me when I complained,” he wrote in a letter rejecting the Peabody. “My eardrums were blown out,” he wrote. “The concussion of the explosion was so great my brain shut down. I remember the liquid in my body became so heated I could feel it simmering near boiling. I could hear my blood boiling, gurgling from what seemed like heat. I felt my brain being tossed around like a rag doll bouncing off the insides of the wall of my boned skull.”The 2 1/2-ton truck, he wrote, “looked like a shredded child’s toy Tonka truck.
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