Born in the Deep South and caught up in the romance of journalism at an early age, George McArthur was not one to let social taboos or politics interfere with a good story.
As a campus reporter for the local newspaper, covering civil rights and racial tensions at the University of Georgia,
he was called a "communist" by the state's segregationist governor,
Herman Talmadge. McArthur replied, with typical sarcasm, that he felt
honored.
Later, while reporting for The
Associated Press from Seoul during the Korean War, and from the Arab
world and Indochina, McArthur cultivated Soviet and other
communist-state reporters as friends, and the trust paid off with
exclusive bits of inside information from the ongoing peace talks at
Panmunjom.
