William Tuohy, who won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1969 for his coverage of the Vietnam War, died Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Tuohy, who worked for 29 years as a foreign correspondent with the Times, died Thursday morning after open heart surgery at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., Touhy's stepson, Adam Wheeler, told the paper.
Tuohy retired from the paper in 1995.
The Associated Press reported Tuohy also led the Times' Beirut, Rome and London bureaus. He worked for Newsweek before being hired to lead the Times' Saigon bureau. He began his journalism career at the San Francisco Chronicle.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Jan. 7 in Santa Monica. Instead of flowers, the Times said Tuohy's family suggests contributions in his name to the Overseas Press Club Foundation, where a memorial scholarship will be created.
