Slain Reporter Honored at Memorial Service
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 13, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Veteran New York Times reporter David E. Rosenbaum was remembered Friday by journalists and lawmakers as a quiet hero of his profession.
Rosenbaum, 63, died Sunday, two days after he was beaten and robbed in his usually quiet Northwest Washington neighborhood.
"I have spent a week trying to come to grips with everything," Philip Taubman, The New York Times' Washington bureau chief, told a standing room-only audience at a memorial service on Capitol Hill. "It was unfathomable, unthinkable, unspeakable."
Taubman said it was easier to make sense of Rosenbaum's life as a devoted husband, father and journalist whose career spanned eight presidencies over 37 years as a Times reporter and editor.
Michael Hamlin, 23, of Washington, was arrested Thursday. He turned himself in to police after seeing television broadcasts of a surveillance videotape that allegedly showed him using a credit card stolen from Rosenbaum. Hamlin later confessed to being one of two men who beat Rosenbaum with a metal pipe and robbed him, police said. The second suspect was still at large Friday....
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Journalist-Killed.html
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