“Breathing the Fire:Â Reflections of a Foreign News Correspondent” with Kimberly Dozier
Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.
Kimberly Dozier, a CBS foreign news correspondent and best-selling author, has reported extensively from locations around the world. Her assignements have included the was in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the crisis and refugee exodus in the Balkens, the Northern Ireland peace process, and the Khobar barracks bombing in Dhahran among others.
On Memorial Day 2006 while covering a story in Baghdad, Dozier become a victim of a car bombing. Her fellow reporters, as well as an Army captain and Iraqi translator were killed. The only survivor, Dozier was seriously wounded, recovering only after multiple sugeries and seemingly endless months of physiotherapy. She recounts the journey to full recovery in her powerful, best-selling memoir Breathing Fire: Fighting to Report and Survive the War in Iraq. She currently reports from the White House, delivering the latest news on the Obama administration and new foreign policy developments.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast in the Dogwood Center’s Black Box from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Admission is free. A free lunch is available to those who RSVP the Fremont Area Community Foundation, 231.924.5350, at least 24 hours ahead.
Admission is free. Doors to the Black Box open at 12 noon.