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Been Everywhere - Got Nowhere
Book by Mulligan, Hugh A.
- GenresJournalism
232 pages, Paperback
First published June 30, 2005
About the author
Hugh A. Mulligan
7 booksHugh Aloysius Mulligan was an American journalist; he was a reporter for the Associated Press for more than fifty years.
Born in New York City, he briefly studied for the priesthood before leaving the seminary for the purpose of military service. He served in World War II as a rifleman in the U.S. Army’s 106th Infantry Division, to which he was posted in 1944 after that unit was decimated in the Battle of the Bulge.
After the war he earned a BA at Marlboro College in Vermont and was the sole member of its first graduating class in 1948, for whom the poet Robert Frost gave the commencement address. He also married the former Brigid Murphy of Armagh, Ireland during the same year. He then studied journalism at Boston University, earning his second bachelor's degree, while simultaneously earning an MA in English literature at Harvard. As if that was not enough work, he supported himself during that time by teaching Greek and Latin at The Boston Latin School.
Mulligan joined AP in December 1951 in Baton Rouge, La., and after 1956 was based in New York, although he did live for a short time in London during the 1970s. He was for many years a foreign correspondent, reporting from 146 countries throughout the world. He traveled with the Pope 28 times and covered wars in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Ireland, Cyprus, Angola and the secessionist Nigerian region of Biafra. He spent three years in Vietnam and one year in Cambodia reporting on the conflict in Indo-China, and was one of three AP staffers covering the last American POW release in Hanoi in March 1973. During the October 1973 war between Israel and Egypt, he was the only American correspondent with IDF units under Maj. Gen. Ariel Sharon’s command when they made their surprise tank counterattack across the Suez Canal. He also covered President John F. Kennedy’s visit to the Berlin Wall during the height of the Cold War in 1963, and was in West Berlin once again in November 1989 when the wall was torn down.
One of the most respected reporters of his generation, Hugh A. Mulligan retired from the Associated Press in 2000.
Born in New York City, he briefly studied for the priesthood before leaving the seminary for the purpose of military service. He served in World War II as a rifleman in the U.S. Army’s 106th Infantry Division, to which he was posted in 1944 after that unit was decimated in the Battle of the Bulge.
After the war he earned a BA at Marlboro College in Vermont and was the sole member of its first graduating class in 1948, for whom the poet Robert Frost gave the commencement address. He also married the former Brigid Murphy of Armagh, Ireland during the same year. He then studied journalism at Boston University, earning his second bachelor's degree, while simultaneously earning an MA in English literature at Harvard. As if that was not enough work, he supported himself during that time by teaching Greek and Latin at The Boston Latin School.
Mulligan joined AP in December 1951 in Baton Rouge, La., and after 1956 was based in New York, although he did live for a short time in London during the 1970s. He was for many years a foreign correspondent, reporting from 146 countries throughout the world. He traveled with the Pope 28 times and covered wars in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Ireland, Cyprus, Angola and the secessionist Nigerian region of Biafra. He spent three years in Vietnam and one year in Cambodia reporting on the conflict in Indo-China, and was one of three AP staffers covering the last American POW release in Hanoi in March 1973. During the October 1973 war between Israel and Egypt, he was the only American correspondent with IDF units under Maj. Gen. Ariel Sharon’s command when they made their surprise tank counterattack across the Suez Canal. He also covered President John F. Kennedy’s visit to the Berlin Wall during the height of the Cold War in 1963, and was in West Berlin once again in November 1989 when the wall was torn down.
One of the most respected reporters of his generation, Hugh A. Mulligan retired from the Associated Press in 2000.
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