James Reston Jr.

James Barrett Reston Jr. (8 ga Maris, 1941 - 19 ga Yuli, 2023) ɗan jaridar Amurka ne, mai shirya shirye-shirye kuma marubucin fiction na siyasa da tarihi da kuma wadanda ba fiction ba. Ya rubuta game da Yaƙin Vietnam, Jonestown Massacre, 'yancin farar hula, tsigewar Richard Nixon, da Hare-haren Satumba 11.

 Rayuwa ta farko 
Reston was born in Manhattan, New York City. His father James "Scotty" Reston was an editor of the New York Times. His mother, Sarah Jane "Sally" Fulton, was a journalist, photographer, writer, and publisher who joined her husband on foreign assignments in Europe and Asia during World War II. His maternal grandfather, William J. Fulton, served two terms as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois.

Iyalin Reston sun koma Washington, DC lokacin da yake dan shekara biyu. Ya halarci Makarantar St. Albans a Washington, DC. Ya sami B.A. a fannin falsafa a 1963 a Jami'ar North Carolina a Chapel Hill (UNC) yayin da yake kan Morehead Scholarship .   A UNC, ya kasance dan wasan kwallon kafa na Kudu kuma har yanzu yana riƙe da rikodin wasan daya na jami'ar - kwallaye biyar a kan Jami'ar Jihar North Carolina a ranar 18 ga Oktoba, 1962  Ya halarci Jami'ar Oxford a lokacin ƙaramin shekarunsa.

 Ayyuka 
Reston ya kasance mataimakin kuma marubucin jawabi ga Sakataren Cikin Gida na Amurka Stewart Udall daga 1964 zuwa 1965. [1] Ya kasance mai ba da rahoto ga Chicago Daily News daga 1964 zuwa 1965.[1][2] Daga 1965 zuwa 1968, ya yi aiki a cikin Sojojin Amurka a matsayin jami'in leken asiri da sajan. [1] [2] [3] Daga 1971 zuwa 1981, ya kasance malami a rubuce-rubuce masu kirkiro a Jami'ar North Carolina a Chapel Hill . [1] [2][4] Daga 1976 zuwa 1977, ya kasance mai bita na almara don Tarihin Ilimi Mafi Girma. .

A ƙarshen shekarun 1960 da farkon shekarun 1970, Reston ya rubuta abubuwa da yawa game da afuwa ga masu fice na Vietnam, mutanen da suka bar Amurka maimakon yin aiki a yaƙi. Wannan ya haifar da littattafai biyu, duka tarin rubutun, Lokacin da zan iya zuwa gida, a cikin 1972 da The Amnesty na John David Herndon a cikin 1973. Reston ya ce, "Yanzu a matsayin tsohon soja da ke adawa da yaki, na shiga cikin batun afuwa ga masu adawa da yakin Vietnam, babu shakka saboda da tausayi na ji tausayi sosai game da halin da suke ciki da kuma shawarar da suka yanke idan aka kwatanta da nawa".

Daga 1976 zuwa 1977, Reston ya kasance mai ba da shawara ga David Frost na Watergate don tambayoyin Nixon na tarihi. Littafin Reston game da tambayoyin, The Conviction of Richard Nixon, shine wahayi ga wasan kwaikwayo na Peter Morgan na 2006 Frost / Nixon, wanda halin Jim Reston shine mai ba da labari. An sanya shi fim a cikin 2008, wanda ake kira Frost / Nixon . 

Labaran Reston sun bayyana a cikin American Heritage,  American Theatre, George, Esquire, National Geographic, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Omni, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Saturday Review, Time, Vanity Fair, da Washington Post Magazine.

Ayyukansa na fiction da wadanda ba fiction ba sun rufe batutuwa masu yawa na tarihi da siyasa. A shekara ta 1985, Reston ya kasance dan takarar Newsweek, PBS, da BBC don zama marubuci na farko a sararin samaniya a kan Jirgin sararin samaniya na NASA. An soke wannan shirin bayan hadarin Challenger a watan Janairun 1986.  A ranar 23 ga Mayu, 1994, mujallar Time ta buga labarinsa game da tasirin Shoemaker Levy 9 a cikin Jupiter.

 Haɗin sana'a 
Reston ya kasance memba na Authors Guild, Authors League of America, Dramatists Guild of America, da PEN . 

 Rayuwa ta mutum 
Reston ya auri Denise Brender Leary a ranar 12 ga Yuni, 1971, a Hume, Virginia, a Fiery Run, gidan Restons. Ta sami digiri na shari'a daga Jami'ar Duke kuma 'yar Mr. da Mrs. John Milton Leary ce ta Bronx .  Sun zauna a Chevy Chase, Maryland, kuma suna da 'ya'ya uku: Maeve, Hillary Reston, da Devin. Ya zuwa 2017, Reston ya zauna a Martha's Vineyard . 
Rukuni:Mutuwan 2023
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1941
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