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Exhibit Artifacts

Christiane Amanpour artifacts
Artifacts from the CNN international correspondent include her much-traveled, decal-bedecked Toshiba laptop computer; an original script she used in a telecast from Tehran, Iran, in 1997; and a chunk of a cruise missile from the Persian Gulf War, signed by Amanpour and Peter Arnett. Credit: Artifacts courtesy David Rust, CNN (photo by Dave Scavone)



  World War II stretcher
Collier's reporter Martha Gellhorn stowed away on a hospital ship to get ashore at Normandy after the D-Day invasion in June 1944. Once there she helped transport the wounded using stretchers like this one.Credit: Courtesy U.S. Army Medical Department Museum, Fort Sam Houston, Texas (photo by Dave Scavone)

  Gulf War body armor
This body armor was worn by CNN correspondent Peter Arnett while covering the Persian Gulf War.Credit: Newseum collection/gift of Peter Arnett (photo by Dave Scavone)

 
Shrapnel-gouged helmet
This helmet was worn by correspondent Richard Tregaskis, who was covering Army troops in Italy in 1943 when a German shell fragment tore through his helmet, pierced his skull and nearly killed him.Credit: Courtesy U.S. Marine Corps Air Ground Museum (photo by Ben Laurie)

  Richard Harding Davis artifacts
Turn-of-the-century correspondent Richard Harding Davis fought in the battles he covered, garnering him campaign medals and badges. Other artifacts include Davis' gold pocket watch; a photo of Davis, posing in the entryway to his luxurious tent in the Boer War in 1900; his leather cigar case with monogram; his camera, made by Western Camera Manufacturing Co., Chicago; and a book of eulogies on Davis, including a remembrance from Theodore Roosevelt. Credit: Artifacts courtesy Kristen Kehrig (photo by Dave Scavone)