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... that war correspondent Jurate Kazickas financed her plane ticket to Vietnam in 1967 with a $500 win on the gameshow
Password? Source: "as a contestant on the television game show password. She won five hundred dollars and used the prize money to buy a one-way ticket to Saigon" from: Sullivan, George (1 January 2006).
Journalists at Risk: Reporting America's Wars. Twenty-First Century Books. p. 66.
ISBN978-0-7613-2745-5.
ALT1: ... that war correspondent Jurate Kazickas was wounded on the day she landed at
Khe Sanh Combat Base? Source: "on March 7 Jurate arrived at the Khe Sanh base .... she had just clicked on her tape recorder when ... the shell landed only 20 yards from where Jurate was standing .... another shell hit, this one even closer ... Jurate was evacuated to a nearby medical bunker where doctors removed a piece of shrapnel embedded in here back" from: Atwood, Kathryn; Evans, Diane (1 May 2018).
Courageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More. Chicago Review Press. p. 114.
ISBN978-1-61373-077-5.