Peter Kalischer

Peter Kalischer (1915–1991) was an American journalist best known for his reporting of the early stages of the Vietnam War, in the early 1960s. He worked for CBS. He won the Overseas Press Club award in 1963 for his reporting during the Buddhist crisis that led to the fall of President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam. From 1966 to 1978, Kalischer was the Paris correspondent for CBS.

He later became a professor of communications at Loyola University, a position he held until 1982.