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5 unusual facts about Rick Atkinson


Alphonse Juin

Juin's ability to analyze where things had gone wrong in some initial thrust and to set things right for the new effort earned him great respect among his contemporaries and among historians of the war such as the American, Rick Atkinson.

Battle of Phase Line Bullet

Atkinson, Rick: Crusade, The untold story of the Persian Gulf War. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.

Kansas City Times

Rick Atkinson won an award for "National Reporting." The Times shared an award with The Star "Local General or Spot New Reporting" for its coverage of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse.

Rick Atkinson

While visiting his parents for Christmas at Fort Riley, Kansas, in 1975, Atkinson found a job as a newspaper reporter for The Morning Sun in Pittsburg, Kansas, covering crime, local government, and other topics in southeast Kansas, an area known as “the Little Balkans” for its ethnic diversity and fractious politics.

The Kansas City Star

1982 – Rick Atkinson (of The Kansas City Times) for national reporting for a series on the West Point Class of 1968



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