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About Ron Ridenhour

In 1969, Vietnam veteran Ron Ridenhour wrote a letter to Congress and the Pentagon describing the horrific events at My Lai – the infamous massacre of the Vietnam War – bringing the scandal to the attention of the American public and the world.
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Ridenhour later became a respected investigative journalist, winning the George Polk Award for Investigative Journalism in 1987 for a year-long investigation of a New Orleans tax scandal. He died suddenly in 1998 at the age of 52. At the time of his death, he was working on a piece for the London Review of Books, had co-produced a story on militias for NBC’s Dateline and had just delivered a series of lectures commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of My Lai.

Ron Ridenhour Tribute Video

This video was made in 2008 to celebrate the 5th anniversary of The Ridenhour Prizes. It highlights the last five years of the awards process and provides a short history of Ron Ridenhour's career and the inspiration behind the establishment of the prizes.

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Nominations

Nominations for both the 2010 Truth-Telling Prize and the Book Prize are now closed.

For more information, call Taya Kitman at 212-822-0252 or Jayati Vora at 212-822-0269