[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 92 (Friday, June 10, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E886]
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                        REMEMBERING DAVID GILKEY

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                          HON. EARL BLUMENAUER

                               of oregon

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, June 10, 2016

  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, last Sunday, David Gilkey, an NPR 
photojournalist from Portland, Oregon, was killed with his Afghani 
translator, Zabihullah Tamanna, in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan.
  I cannot express fully my gratitude for David's tireless commitment 
to his profession. His evocative, powerful work, and many contributions 
to NPR will be remembered for generations.
  Graduating from Wilson High School in Portland in 1985, David 
followed the path of his father, Richard Gilkey, to Oregon State 
University, before following his passion of photojournalism at the 
Boulder Daily Camera, and then the Detroit Free Press before joining 
NPR in 2007.
  David covered conflict areas from around the globe, ethnic violence 
in Rwanda and the Balkans, apartheid in South Africa, famine in Somalia 
and violence in the Gaza Strip. Since 2001 he extensively covered the 
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  He was one of the most decorated of photojournalists, winning an Emmy 
in 2007 for a documentary video series and receiving 36 honors from the 
White House. In 2015, he was the first multimedia journalist to be 
awarded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's prestigious Edward R. 
Murrow Award for Journalism.
  David and journalists like him play an essential role in helping us 
all better understand global events, putting themselves in harm's way 
to open the world's window for the rest of us. They are true heroes.
  Our hearts go out to David's mother and father, Alyda and Richard 
Gilkey, his circle of family and friends, and to his entire NPR family 
for their loss.

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