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David Snell (March 28, 1921 – July 1987) was a reporter and cartoonist for the former Life Magazine, a major 20th-century magazine, and several other publications during his career as a journalist.
Reporter David Snell. David Snell, author of the story of Japan's successful atomic bomb test, was a member of the Constitution's reportorial staff when he joined the Army in 1945. Snell, a native of Minden, LA, was in charge of the Constitution's News Bureau at Marietta immediately before entering the Army, having served for a while on the ...
David Snell (March 28, 1921 – July 1987) was a reporter and cartoonist for Life Magazine, a major 20th-century magazine, and several other publications during his career as a journalist.
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Sep 2, 2020 · David Snell, an army investigator in Korea and later respected Life Magazine correspondent, first reported in 1946 in the Atlanta Constitution that the result was the test-firing of a nuclear device off Korea. But by then, America’s priorities had shifted. The Russians were now the new enemy.
When a censored version of that 1947 GHQ/SCAP report appeared three months earlier in the Atlanta Constitution [with “names, dates, facts and figures” redacted], the author, David Snell, a young reporter from Minden, Louisiana, was universally condemned: Dr. Yoshio Nishina, the head of Japan’s atomic program in Tokyo (Ni-go), called him a ...
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David Snell (March 28, 1921–July 1987) was a reporter and cartoonist for Life Magazine, a major 20th-century magazine, and several other publications during his career as a journalist.
David Snell ( March 28, 1921 – July 1987) was a reporter and cartoonist for the defunct Life Magazine and several other publications during his career as a journalist. Contents. 1 Early years, family, education. 2 Journalism career. 3 Family breakup. 4 Snell’s legacy. 5 References. Early years, family, education.