Sad Sack

John Sack, a battlefield correspondent who covered American wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan died Saturday. He melded the "new journalism" literary style with a determination to accurately tell the story. Perhaps his most famous story was the account of William H. Calley, Jr., the man responsible for the My Lai massacre of Vietnamese civilians, at 33,000 words, the longest ever published by Esquire. Sack was indicted on federal charges for refusing to hand over his notes to prosecutors during Calley’s trial, but the charges were dropped.