PULITZER PRIZE WINNER MIKE SALLAH TO SPEAK AT CONVOCATION posted 11/7/05

Michael Sallah, a Pulitzer Prize award winner, will speak on Nov. 16 at 12:15 p.m. in Dawson Auditorium, as part of the Convocation speaker series.

Sallah won the Pulitzer in April 2004 for investigative reporting. He led the investigation with Mitch Weiss and Joe Mahr. The trio uncovered governmental secrets that had been left alone for 36 years until their four day series "Buried Secrets, Buried Truths" exposed them. The series debuted in October 2003 in the Toledo Blade. The three men searched through government documents, interviewed 43 former Tiger Force members, and also traveled to Vietnam to interview family members affected by Tiger
Force.

Tiger Force was a specially trained and designed platoon responsible for committing war crimes during the Vietnam War. The platoon killed unarmed and innocent civilians and children during a 7 month time period in 1967. The Army, which knew about the platoon, failed to stop them, and at times even encouraged them. The platoon was found guilty of war crimes, but the soldiers were never tried.

Sallah currently is the investigations editor at the Miami Herald. He has co-authored a book detailing the investigation that will be released by Time Warner this spring.

Sallah started with the Toledo Blade in 1989 and has covered everything from the sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church to the Florida presidential election controversy in 2000. Sallah has also been twice named the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists' reporter of the year.

Dawson Auditorium is located off of Charles Street on the Adrian College campus. This event is free and open to the public. (campus map)