This Day in History: Journalist Daniel Pearl born Oct. 10, 1963
Friday, October 10th, 2008
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was born in 1963, in Princeton, NJ. In early 2002, just four months after 9/11, he was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan. Read full coverage of “The Daniel Pearl Case” on NewsHour, including an interview with Mariane Pearl, wife of the slain journalist. (Originally aired: 3/18/02).
Watch a discussion about the life and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl on Charlie Rose.
Guests include Pearl’s widow and author of “A Mighty Heart” Mariane Pearl, Pearl’s former colleague at “The Wall Street Journal” Asra Q. Nomani, and Bernard-Henri Levi, the author of “Who Killed Daniel Pearl”. See Charlie Rose site. (Originally aired: 12/3/2003)
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