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Sat 05 May 2007Pulitzer-winning reporter who challenged official line on Vietnam warDavid Halberstam: David Halberstam, who has died aged 73 in a car crash in California, was one of the most talented, influential and prolific of the American journalists who came of age professionally in the 1960s.He was one of the small group of young reporters - with his New York Timescolleague Neil Sheehan, Stanley Karnow of Timemagazine and Malcolm Browne and Peter Arnett of the Associated Press - who, having initially accepted the reasons for the Vietnam war, came to believe, first, that it was not going as well as Washington maintained and later, that it was ill-conceived and unjustified.