John Pomfret
John Pomfret
John Pomfretwas an English poet and clergyman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
overseas people
Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.
fourteen seized trip
I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China.
china front grew page regular relations time york
I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis.
bicycles form main move though time
My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
witness
I think you're a witness and a recorder.
covering newspaper states
I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.