[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 8507-8508]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        REMEMBERING DAVID GILKEY

  (Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, last Sunday, David Gilkey, an NPR 
photojournalist from Portland, Oregon, was killed with his Afghani 
translator in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan.

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  I cannot fully express my gratitude for David's tireless commitment 
to his profession. His evocative, beautiful work, and many 
contributions to NPR will be remembered for generations.
  He covered conflict areas around the globe. Since 2001, he 
extensively covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  He was one of the most decorated of photo journalists, including an 
Emmy, and the first multimedia journalist to be awarded the Corporation 
for Public Broadcasting's prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for 
Journalism.
  David played an essential role in helping us understand the global 
events. He was one of those who put 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 the Gilkey family and to his NPR family for 
their loss.

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