On October 5, 2007, the United States Postal Service announced that it would honor five journalists of the 20th century times with first-class rate postage stamps, to be issued on Tuesday, April 22, 2008: Martha Gellhorn, John Hersey, George Polk, Rubén Salazar, and Eric Sevareid.
Named after writer John Hersey, it is part of Township High School District 214, which also includes Buffalo Grove High School, Elk Grove High School, Prospect High School, Rolling Meadows High School, and Wheeling High School.
In 1985 Mikhail Ulyanov staged the satirical pamphlet The Child Buyer by the American playwright John Hersey.
Similarly, John Hersey's Hiroshima applies the phrase after efforts to assist fatally injured hibakusha ceased.
He is the leading character in John Hersey's 1972 novel portraying Rome as a police state, The Conspiracy.
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1969: The notorious Algiers Motel Murder Trial of a Detroit police officer was moved to the Ingham County Courthouse from Wayne County because of adverse publicity from John Hersey's 1968 book The Algiers Motel Incident.
Township High School District 214 — the Cook County district of Elk Grove and Wheeling townships (and a part of Palatine Township), and containing Buffalo Grove High School, Elk Grove High School, John Hersey High School, Prospect High School, Rolling Meadows High School, and Wheeling High School, and formerly Arlington High School and Forest View High School