Excerpt from the 1964 Dateline for The Robert Capa Gold Medal 1963:
Life’s Larry Burrows, in the words of a foreign correspondent who has seen much of him in action, “is either the bravest man I ever knew — or the most near-sighted.” well, it isn’t just myopia. Burrows wins this award for his “superlative photography and exceptional courage” in his coverage of the war in Vietnam, the very war theater where Life photographer Robert Capa died in action just ten years ago.