BY NINA GOLGOWSKI / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013, 8:33 AM
Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings died early Tuesday in a single car crash in Los Angeles, his employer and family said.
Hastings' groundbreaking reporting on Gen. Stanley McChrystal's candid criticism of the Obama administration is credited with ending McChrystal's military career and earned him a 2010 George Polk Award. He was 33. Hastings quoted McChrystal and his aides mocking Obama administration officials, including Vice President Joe Biden, over their war policies.
Another neighbor described hearing a huge explosion drawing him and several others outside their homes
The vehicle's engine ejected 50 to 60 yards from the scene before landing near a telephone pole, according to neighbor and film maker Gary Grossman who said he couldn't have written a scene like this for a movie.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...led-car-crash-article-1.1376574#ixzz2Wg6wBSla
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013, 8:33 AM
Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings died early Tuesday in a single car crash in Los Angeles, his employer and family said.
Hastings' groundbreaking reporting on Gen. Stanley McChrystal's candid criticism of the Obama administration is credited with ending McChrystal's military career and earned him a 2010 George Polk Award. He was 33. Hastings quoted McChrystal and his aides mocking Obama administration officials, including Vice President Joe Biden, over their war policies.
Another neighbor described hearing a huge explosion drawing him and several others outside their homes
The vehicle's engine ejected 50 to 60 yards from the scene before landing near a telephone pole, according to neighbor and film maker Gary Grossman who said he couldn't have written a scene like this for a movie.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...led-car-crash-article-1.1376574#ixzz2Wg6wBSla