Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his peopleÂ’s rights, died in New Brunswick, N.J., on Sunday. He was 65 and lived in Woodbridge, N.J.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, which had spread, said his friend Sydney H. Schanberg. . . .
| Slide show of Mr. Dith at the NYT site here. Mr. Dith, after coming to the U.S., worked as a NYT photojournalist, and a few of his photos are presented. Number 16 in the series is a recent photo of him. He had quite an eye as a photographer, and he's a genuine hero. |
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