The true story of a female reporter who traveled the world to cover history's most high-profile news stories only to battle classism, sexism and tragedy in the male-dominated world of war journalism.

SYNOPSIS:

The story of Marguerite “Maggie” Higgins starts in a small town outside of Oakland and embarks on a journey that spans the world. Self-determined, witty and pragmatic charm were staples of Maggie’s personality as she grew from insecure and socially unaccepted editor of her college paper--to news reporter for the New York Herald Tribune--to heroine and world-renown war correspondent. The series follows Maggie as she starts her career as a New York Herald and continues to track her career as she covers such high profile stories as the liberation of the Jewish concentration camp of Dachau; covering the front lines of the Korean War; going behind the Iron Curtain of Russia and finally reporting on the Vietnam War. The story tells the amazing life story of one the world’s most revered story tellers and how she made her mark on the world as a war correspondent before her life came to a tragic end.

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