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compound as the fifth day of protests erupts in the streets there. nato admitted burnings a quran after finding secret messages inside them. it sparked widespread violence and conner powell is streaming live in kabul with more. >> reporter: it is the latest sign the anger in afghanistan the burning of those qurans isn't going anywhere. two intelligence ministers were shot inside their headquarters. a gunman is still at large and nobody exactly sure who he was but u.s. and afghan officials are looking through videotape surveillance to try to figure out who pulled the trigger as they were there advising the

afghan government. john allen has taken all the ministers from working in afghan to protect the u.s. troops working with them. the situation in afghanistan has gotten worse and worse every single day. the latest crisis we expect it to continue several more days. two more soldiers have dried died during this crisis. conner, thank you very much. we'll continue to follow the latest out of afghanistan and for all the latest headlines. log on to foxnews.com. i'm rick folbaum. now back to war stories right here.

>> oliver: your witness on the front line, it's never been an easy job and always been dangerous. tonight you'll meet these journalists and hear their stories about some of the most riveting stories in history. you'll hear the stories behind the photographs. a picture may be worth a thousand words. you'll hear from rupert murdoch and how his father went up against a general in the trenches have world war i. some have called the first draft of history.

war correspondents have to be able to deal with absolutely anything. >> truth comes out in these wars. there are too many witnesses. >> sometimes you feel like crazy. >> of all of the wars you have written about, which one was most accurately reported as it happens. >> i would have to say none of them. >> he was the first casualty is his in-depth study of war reports. william, he was the first civilian that came to the front. >> oliver: this war was fought in ukraine. it begin in 1853 and got six

countries and pitted them against russia. with hundred thousand british troops, the times of london sent their reporter to the front. >> we have a treasury tremendous treasury documents. >> oliver: he manages the archives at the times of london. it's been in print for over 200 years. 1981 was purchased by newscorp. >> it was part of the whole concept the script of writing. >> oliver: he was 34 when he traveled to the crimea. this is the first dire ray in 1854 he lists the days and time that mail left london. >> it usually took three weeks

to get back to london. >> a british soldier serving was three times more likely of disease than by the enemy. william howard russell's graphic front line reporting made improved medical conditions in the field. russell's world captured the charge of the british light horse brigade. they charged into a russian fire almost half were killed or wounded. it was hell on horseback. russell described it this way. >> it was marked by instant death bikers dead men and horses. flying wounded across the flames. >> right from the beginning, the dilemma that he faced there and

dilemma that has been facing war correspondents ever since -- who side are you on? >> when they write something that politicians that they don't like. >> marie colvin grew up just outside of new york city. she thought she was going to be a marine biologist but a stint with a newspaper changed her mind. >> i came out with new credentials. >> in 1996 at the age of 30 she got her first taste of bang, bang. that april, libya was attacked. at the time i was the coordinator of the u.s. government counterterrorism expert heavily involved in planning the operation. >> did you think at the time that you knew where he was. >> we talk about this afterwards

>> deadline, it was lifted from a civil war. prisoners of war were told if they crossed a line they would be shot. for correspondents it's a line in time that gets clear and clear. >> it can closer and closer. >> and marie colvin writes to the sunday times of london. it's also owned by news corporation. >> even today they are rare birds in a traditional male world. >> we don't report on the actual bang, bang but we go behind the scenes to see what is happening

to people. >> when the soviets invaded afghanistan, it became another bloody chapter in a country torn apart for 200 years. an inexperienced 21-year-old christina left england for brutal reality of combat. >> they were bombing and they pulled me over. their stomach was all hanging out. >> a war correspondent has a particular obligation to expose errors? >> absolutely. if you love soldiers, you are going to come down on a ton of bricks who is unnecessarily

risking their life. >> joe galloway was 23 when he begin his first tour in vietnam. in 1965 he found himself in the first major battle in the central highlands. with lieutenant he documented the fight we were soldiers once and young. since vietnam he has stayed close to the battlefield heading back to war over half a dozen times. >> story is always the same. the absolute raw edge of humanity. this is what you are trying to capture. there is no other way to do that than go with them. >> oliver: go with them. dates to the first war correspondent, william howard russell. he found his way to america but this time he was far from alone.

>> people could read what happened yesterday rather than what happened two weeks ago. >> oliver: to bring the civil war, 600 reporters converged. one paper spent 63 men into the field and spent almost a million dollars. matthew brady captured the agony of the civil war and sold his pictures directly to an eager public starved for information. photographs didn't be a regular fixture in newspapers until after 1880. photographs like this, they were reporting forever. >> i raised my camera and took the picture. >> oliver: when we return, he describes how his father exposed the lives of a world war i

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>> oliver: the spanish american war begin in 1898 with full press and front page support. they made here's out of teddy roosevelt and exploits of his rough riders and gave rise to notorious quotes. >> william randolph hearst. he sent pictures of the war, not much was happening. you furnish the pictures, i'll furnish the war. this is an attitude of yellow

journalism. >> oliver: it was called yellow because intense rivalry between heartt and pull zer. it passed over this popular cartoon. pull zer was become known as -- and exaggerated stories became yellow, as well. >> true or false, it happened to be a war story. >> world war i begin as the people's war. it ended with the stalemate of trench warfare and unparalleled death and suffering. britain had to turn to its empire. they joined up and shipped out for europe's war. >> over 60,000 of these troops traveled 9,000 miles coming here

on the steep and rocky cliffs of the peninsula in turkey. >> april 1915. they had the british counterpart under general sir ian hamilton. there was opening a supply line to russia. what was being reported in the australian press about the conditions for the australian commonwealth troops? >> things were going well. they weren't admitting to any major defeats which in fact was a slaughter house. >> at the age of 30, his father went to investigate problems to the hoops. >> he was shocked by what he saw. he was shocked by the british general who were charge of the whole thing. ordering suicidal attacks.

>> generals were on out on the ships drinking their gin and tonics. >> you had to agree --. >> oliver: from these miserable trenches thousands of young men charged into enemy fire. even so, they went over the top again and ken. keith murdoch and another reporter set out to tell the truth. >> they actually, they were together and they had to get word through the political masses who were not getting the truth. >> oliver: keith murdoch carried the letter as far as the french port. >> when he gets to marsiilles he is confronted by intelligence

officer who seizes the letter. so at that point he reconstructs the letter. but news didn't make it immediately into the newspapers. technically it was breach of censorship rules but it was only reporting to the political masses. >> keith murdoch eyewitness account had a profound effect. >> they principled the cabinet paper in in britain and a special media of the war cabinet that resulted in the recall of general hamlin and evacuation three months later. >> they suffered over 30,000 casualties on the peninsula, all told the battle took 120,000 lives. strict censorship letter of world war 1's misery was reported. four years of stalemate trench warfare, hit million were

killed. and the willingness of two journalists who report the truth makes a powerful argument for independent war reporting. >> have you had a chance to talk to your dad how he felt about bringing about a change, perhaps saving thousands of lives as a consequence of what he did. >> i remember i guess it was 30 years later after the event. he was telling me how he was still heavily criticized in britain by military establishment, how he himself was a completely at peace with his conscience. >> oliver: more deadlines in the battlefield when war stories continue. i wouldn't do that. pay the check? no, i wouldn't use that single miles credit card. hey, aren't you... shhh. i'm researchg a role. today's special... the capital one venture card. you earn double miles on every purchase. impressive. chalk is a lost medium. if you're not earning double miles...

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>> oliver: december, 1941, surprise attack on pearl harbor forced the nuance a two-front war. in those early dark days, allied victory was far from certain. >> i have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. >> his phrase. >> the truth had to be protected by a bodyguard of. it was lie if necessary. >> in this war of national survival. truth in pictures was defining casualties. hollywood judged on board producing propaganda films. this mixed real footage with japanese pilots.

like david eisenhower, public opinion wins wars. even in the climate of you is pressing losses, war correspondents did good work. men like ernie pile and edward r. murrow. >> there are more planes over england than any time since the war begun. >> i wanted to get in. >> he arrived in north africa in 1943. newspaper was stars and stripes. >> it was run by the military. there was censorship. there had to be some censor ship >> the deserts of africa, paul green was there. >> it was important not just for

the soldiers but for americans back home. >> oliver: but the words and images came at a price. the casualty rate for photographers and correspondents was four times greater than the military in general. >> didn't want to die. you have to be at a certain place to get the story. >> he got mad as hell. >> oliver: he got a taste of combatted journalism in the pacific. he was one of thousands of uniformed reporters, photographers and cameramen. >> how many days until it would break in the paper? >> about a week. it went ap, up, everybody picked it up on the spotted. >> consider them the early ones. >> as the tide of war turned the world begin to see the

sacrifices that were being made for their freedom. this photograph was published in life magazine, first time american dead seen by the public. >> there was a feeling we have to let them show to the nation what some of the citizens of sacrificed. >> perhaps the most famous, joe rosenthal flag raising on iwo jima. >> i had nothing to do but the location and i was told the place. i did not give the signal. >> as they were sticking the pole about to raise it. somebody yelled, there it going. >> the artist also flourished. a retired colonel, his book documents the history of combat

art. >> i have a painting called the price by great artist. he happened to look up as a marine got hit with a mortar round. it was horrifying. it was an effect that a photograph could never have gotten. it doesn't repulse and intensify the agony of what these heroes went through. >> oliver: coming up an assault, you won't believe what you see and hear. monade ? susie's lemonade... the movie. or... we make it pink ! with these 4g lte tablets, you can do business at lightning-fast spes. we'll take all the strawberries, dave. you got it, kid. we have a winner. we're definitely gonna need another one.

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arabia. >> reporter: thanks very much. >> i'm rick folbaum and i'll see at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. now back to war stories right here on fox news channel. >> oliver: july 1944, on the beaches of guam, he was there beside them. >> >> oliver: carrying this heavy

radio equipment describing minute by minute, step by step the approach to the beach. >> i'll tell you one thing i'm thinking right now of my home and my wife and little daughter. >> oliver: and the battlefield recordings are preserved at the library of congress. >> then one was assigned to cover the marine landings on a fiercely held japanese island of taowa. >> realizing there was great deal of responsibility. >> oliver: as you can see from this riveting film, he stood up in the line of fire as they were hunkering down. >> i think i was too dumb to worry about being shot. >> oliver: captured on film, some of the most intense and brutal combat.

footage was so compelling, it was used to make the documents that won the 1944 academy award during world war ii. allied war correspondents operated within the perimeters of censorship rules. >> claiming victims and lots of horror in the war, particularly in the pacific was told. there is no question that all the correspondents, i think war was more accurately reported historically than almost any other events. >> oliver: by 1968, more than a hundred million television sets were available to show the news from the battlefield. it was a living room war. >> the administration was

showing how tough america would be. and we deserved our support. >> you went throughout as a correspondent and you were allowed to get where you want to. >> a lot of reporting from war why in vietnam, we didn't hear what with was happening on the other side. >> over 600 journalists covered vietnam and they investigation ted money to record the war. men like christopher jensen. >> one day it occurred to me maybe what i ought to is enlist in the army. if you enlisted it was three years but the military would train you in a specialty that you requested. >> oliver: he became one of

300 --3,000 to shoot pictures. much were shot by troops not independent journalists. >> the little town in the north. >> one of the things they showed from world war ii. he one guy throws a hand grenade and he ducks down and the photographer stays up. we're like, that is the plan? >> oliver: he spent 15 months, recaptured the terror and mundane of a soldier's life in vietnam. but being into uniform didn't rob him of curiosity or willingness to bend the rules in search of the truth. >> we heard there was some bad stuff in a fire support base called rip cored. you would have to check in with public information office but

they said, nobody was allowed to get up record. >> oliver: he went to rip cord anyway and there is film of that desperate battle. a battle the military was trying to keep quiet. 75 men died at rip cord. they aired episode of men who fought and died there. >> we knew that was a special situation. the idea of documenting something important. >> you have the associated press you get hired by them at age 15. what did you know about them? >> high school brother was killed in 1965 on assignment the mekong delta.

>> oliver: you would be medevac by the musmt u.s. military. >> oliver: you didn't take a vacation? >> no, i get out. i went back right away. >> oliver: in 1972, he took one of the most shocking photographs. meet the little girl in the picture. next on war stories. ÷÷ what's this? it's progresso's loaded potato with bacon.

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offensive. thousands attack over a hundred cities and towns in south vietnam. >> in the fierce fighting, much of it on city streets, 1100 americans and 3900 south vietnamese troops were killed. eddie adams were on the streets of saigon when a sniper was cornered. >> think pull this guy out the door. they just grabbed from sniping from a second story. we start following him and walking up the street kniochblt from my left. i see this guy as soon as we got close to him. i raise made camera and took a picture. >> as soon as he shot him, he walked towards me and he said, they killed many of my men and many of your people. it's either them or you. they grabbed this guy and shot

another guy. i tell people, if you were him at that time, how do you know you would not have pulled that trigger. >> first page picture added more fuel to the anti-war movement. skult execution received a 1969 pull zer prize. >> i'm not joking. i think the picture. i've seen great pictures in vietnam they are a hell of a lot better than our picture. >> june 8, 1972. >> i took a picture and napalm bomb exploded and they were running. i took the picture, four or five photos. >> do you remember hearing the sound of fighting that morning? >> yes. i just remember that it was

going to be bombed. suddenly i saw the fire everywhere. and then the fire burning off my clothes and i saw the fire and i kept running and running. i scream out too hot, too hot. they gave me some water to drink and then he tried to help me. he poured water over me. >> do you remember seeing somebody taking pictures. i didn't know who was there. >> that photograph in the air strike in the aftermath, he used his car to rush kim and several others to the hospital. >> i don't want you to die. >> i'm so grateful that they saved my life. >> were you angry at him taking

the picture? >> i say i wish that picture was not taken. i hate everybody. >> kim spent 14 months in hospitals recovering from the burns. but the photographs as an anti-american propaganda tool and forced to for fit other dream of becoming becoming a doctor. >> i want to die and i asked god things happen and then i became christian in 1982, christmas 1982. and i just pray, he freed me from hatred and bitterness. i didn't want to die anymore. >> oliver: at the age of 22 he was the first vietnamese and youngest photographer to win the

pull ri zer prize. she found herself flying from moscow to cuba and she defected and begin a new life. >> i can use that picture for good, to promote peace. a lot of people know how horrible war can be. we cannot change the past. but we can heal the future. then i realize that, that picture is very powerful gift for me. >> war correspondent prevents of an atrocity. >> militia, came in with machetes and fire was all over town. >> find out next.

>> oliver: in the wake of the vietnam war everything changed. >> never before in the history of war reporting has a group of correspondents constant distortions and lies in reporting the car. >> the days of total access and free movements of journalists were gone. 1983, granada, journalists were bar frd the island until three days. panama, strict control by the military led to coverage some say it was an illusion of a bloodless battlefield. >> 1990, iraq invades kuwait. >> none of it appears -- it appears like a video game.

you see the other is things and you see explosions and lights in the sky this. >> oliver: the wake of the first gulf war, that excluding the media might have been a mistake. a conference was called when veteran war correspondent was there? >> they had all the division commanders, marine, army on one side of the table and us on the other. those guys especially the army guys were sitting there looking sick. they had just fought this remarkable 100-hour campaign and they didn't have a single footage of film. not a picture, nada. >> secondly gulf war they decided that they wouldn't manage the media. they would incorprate the media.

>> got it. all right. mission accomplished. >> that is greg kelly, covering iraqi freedom with the 30th infantry division. >> we could report on anything we see. that is terrific in combat. >> show photographs of dead enemy soldiers or friendly casualties up close. >> it's an m-1 tank. >> shortly after we crossed the river, a tank was taken out, disabled by rocked propelled grenades. it was live television. an officer started pointing at our camera. it was not the time or the place for an argument. we turned off our picture. >> he arrived and he said basically that somebody back at

home got nervous about an american tank burning on live television of the didn't expect to see that. that is one of the things that happen in war from time to time. it's the danger of embedding. everybody was playing by the ground rules until they said, kill the picture. this it's part of the story. >> quite content to be the u.s. side traveling with u.s. forces, you had blinders on? >> i think iraq was unique. they were dazzled by the possibility how realtime war from both sides but it didn't work out like that. you are back with the problem. >> should a greater effort be made to report about the other side? >> i think this is a new school of journalism. you must be totally objective about everything including your own country's interests.

i think it's taking it too far. >> is it wrong for a reporter to feel an affection for the troops? >> no, it's not wrong. if you are an american covering a war and american fighting and america's future, it's like, of course, you are on that side. we were objective we reported the good along with the bad that our unit encountered. >> we also talked about the mistakes, friendly fire, killing of innocent civilians and we were biased because we wanted the united states to win. >> i knew this is going badly when i landed on an empty and they were fighting their way to get on the plane. >> marie colvin went to indonesia to cover a contentious election. they voted for independence for

backed by the army moved into to crush the movement. the violence spread. the u.n. evacuated all but one compound. >> they were going to leave behind the 1500 women and children. so i decided to stay. every compound that was overwhelmed. they got the u.n. staff out with the european australians and americans. >> they planned to leave the last compound. she made her stand. >> i was going to talk to everybody. you are still a journalist. what matters more to me, if you weren't evacuated you could die. >> i would do it again. >> tell the world what you did.

>> it was two years after saving those lives, marie found herself trying to save her own. >> it was in april of 2001. i had gone to northern sri lanka which is essentially no journalists have been allowed there for six years. >> it has been rocked by civil war for more than 20 years as forces fight for independence. >> it's brutal on both sides. as we were crossing the field they just opened fire. flares go up and that just terrifying. i just hit the ground. >> in the dark of night, she heard soldiers moving toward. i yelled, journalist at which point they launched a grenade. which hit about four feet from

me. this is just a stupid place to die. >> suffering severe head wounds she was stabilized at a local hospital. she later had surgery in new york but never gained the sight in her eye. >> oliver: do you have any regrets about that experience? >> i don't have regrets about doing what i'm doing. >> while she was recruiting in hotel, room service delivered gift. some of the people she saved. war stories will be right back.

you will never get to where you are going. i think fear comes later. >> oliver: war was once glorified that overshadowed the carnage, but war has always been hell. the rise of the war correspondent, photographers and producers have awakened the public conscious and knowing the sacrifices makes us more careful about the battles we choose and the reminds us of the men and women that gave everything so we can live free. they have a war story that deserves to be told. i'm oliver north, good night.