While working in Washington Hersh first met and befriended I. F. Stone, whose I. F. Stone's Weekly would serve as an initial inspiration for Hersh's later work.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

In early 1974, Hersh had planned to publish a story on " Project Jennifer " ( later revealed to be named Project Azorian and Operation Matador ), a covert CIA project to recover a sunken Soviet navy submarine from the floor of the Pacific Ocean.

Hersh has listed among her early musical influences The Raincoats, Talking Heads, Violent Femmes, Meat Puppets, Dead Kennedys, Hüsker Dü, Velvet Underground, R. E. M., and X.

In 2010, Hersh released her memoir, Rat Girl, which covers events from early 1985 through early 1986, when she was in her late teens.

According to information from Seymour M. Hersh, author of The Dark Side of Camelot during early preparations to the Bay of Pigs Invasion, President Dwight D. Eisenhower personally asked then-Governor of Alabama John Malcolm Patterson ( who served as a lieutenant in Eisenhower's staff during the World War II ) to use the aircraft of Air National Guard of Alabama ( Patterson, as Governor, was commander-in-chief of the guard ) by Cuban émigrés to attack and pilots to train them in deep secret in Nicaragua.

* 1970: Seymour M. Hersh, Dispatch News Service, " for his exclusive disclosure of the Vietnam War tragedy at the hamlet of My Lai.

In April 2012, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh reported that the US Joint Special Operations Command had trained MEK operatives at a secret site in Nevada from 2005 to 2009.

According to Hersh, MEK members were trained in intercepting communications, cryptography, weaponry and small unit tactics at the Nevada site up until President Barack Obama took office in 2009.

* " Current State of Investigative Reporting ," talk by Seymour Hersh at Boston University, 19 May 2009

It was during this time that Hersh began to form his investigative style, often walking out of regimented press briefings at the Pentagon and seeking out one-on-one interviews with high-ranking officers.

Hersh wrote about the massacre and its cover-up in My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath and Cover-up: The Army's Secret Investigation of the Massacre at My Lai 4.

Writers such as Craig S. Karpel, James Dale Davidson, and Ernest Volkman, as well as the critically acclaimed Seymour Hersh exposed numerous scandals and corruption at the highest levels of the United States Government.

Bob Hersh of Track & Field News wrote, " The build-up was probably the greatest for any single footrace since the historic ' Miracle Mile ' at Vancouver, British Columbia in 1954.

His critique of Modern Orthodox Judaism has been commented on by many, including Hillel Halkin, columnist for the New York Sun ; Andrew Silow-Carroll, editor of the New Jersey Jewish News ; Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, Executive Vice President of the Orthodox Union ; Rabbi Shalom Carmy, tenured professor of Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva University ; Rabbi Norman Lamm, chancellor of Yeshiva University ;, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach ; Gary Rosenblatt, editor of Jewish Week, the editorial board of the Jewish Press ; Rabbis Ozer Glickman and Aharon Kahn, roshei yeshiva at Yeshiva University ; Ami Eden, Executive Editor of The Forward ; Rabbi David M. Feldman, author of Where There's Life, There's Life ; and Jonathan Rosenblum, columnist for the Jerusalem Post.

Early in the band's career, Hersh became friends with Betty Hutton while both were students at Salve Regina University.

Hersh discussing her memoir Rat Girl with Dan Charnas at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival.

Hersh spent part of the 1990s in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, recording several solo albums and a few band tracks at Stable Sound studio with engineer Steve Rizzo.

It was given its American premiere, in a new English translation by Gerald Frantzen and Hersh Glagov, by Chicago Folks Operetta in July 2010, at Stage 773 in Chicago, Illinois.

" It was also alleged that the American combat vehicles opened fire on a large group of more than 350 disarmed Iraqi soldiers who had surrendered at a U. S. military checkpoint after fleeing the devastation on Highway 8 on February 27 ; these allegations were publicised by Seymour Hersh.

Donelly co-founded Throwing Muses with Hersh and other members like Elaine Adamedes at around age 15.

Two shows at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 6, 2007, were a musical reunion of sorts, as Donelly co-headlined with Hersh.

Serge Moscovici ( born 14 June 1925 as Srul Herş Moscovici — Srul Hersh Moskovitch ) is a Romanian-born French social psychologist, currently the director of the Laboratoire Européen de Psychologie Sociale (" European Laboratory of Social Psychology "), which he co-founded in 1974 at the Maison des sciences de l ' homme in Paris.

* Kristin Hersh covered it on her 1994 EP " Strings ".

Hersh enlisted her stepsister, Donelly, to help form the group while they were attending Rogers High School.

During the mid-1990s, Hersh also began a solo recording career, releasing the album Hips and Makers, alongside her band work.

Hersh continued her solo career during this period, releasing several well-received albums and EPs.

In 1994, Hersh began an additional career on Sire / Reprise and 4AD as an acoustic solo performer, beginning with Hips and Makers, an album sparely arranged around her vocals, guitar, and a cellist, in contrast to the volatile, electric sound of her band work.

Stating that " songwriting is about shutting up instead of talking ", Hersh has said that songs that appeal to her are those that " say things that I don't know yet and tell stories I may not have lived yet ".

After receiving some airplay and major media coverage for Throwing Muses album University in 1995, Hersh moved to Rykodisc for her 1996 Throwing Muses album, Limbo, and her 1998 solo album, Strange Angels.

In January 2007, Hersh released her first solo album in four years, entitled Learn to Sing Like a Star.

In fact, Hersh has cowritten two songs with her father, " Uncle June and Aunt Kiyoti " and " Houdini Blues ", which appeared on other solo releases ; she also recorded a third, " Sinkhole ", that he wrote on his own.

Hersh and her family have moved every few years to live in a different locale.

Hersh has also said in an interview that she writes many of her songs which feel to her as though " they come from New Orleans or Providence, Rhode Island ".

Hersh has described 50 Foot Wave's music as " having a lot of math in it ," while also calling it less emotionally and musically " tangled " than some of her past Throwing Muses work.

The group toured Europe and the United States in 2005, while Hersh simultaneously continued her solo concerts in alternating parts of the year.

Tanya Donelly ( born July 14, 1966, in Newport, Rhode Island ) is an American Grammy-nominated singer songwriter and guitarist based in New England who co-founded Throwing Muses with her stepsister Kristin Hersh.

In one interview she named her guitar playing influences as Marc Ribot, The Beatles, and former band mate Hersh.

Other well-known alumni: syndicated columnist and Politico editor Roger Simon, reclusive media mogul Fred Eychaner, environmental journalist William Allen, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, New York Times columnist David Brooks, author of Bobos in Paradise, pop artist Claes Oldenburg, consumer advocate David Horowitz, columnist Mike Royko, and Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Herbert Lawrence Block, ( commonly known as Herblock ).

The group was originally fronted by two lead singers, Kristin Hersh and Tanya Donelly, who both wrote the group's songs.

Hersh began singing and writing most of Throwing Muses ' songs in changing tempos, with Donelly also singing and writing some of the songs.

They began touring around the U. S. and Europe while recording critically acclaimed rock albums, with Hersh writing most of the songs.

The band is fronted by Kristin Hersh, who writes the group's songs with collaborative efforts from the other group members in composing and arranging the music.