Career
Kurt Schork was born in Washington, D.C., on January 24, 1947, graduated from Jamestown College in 1969, and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar later that year—the same time as future US president Bill Clinton. He worked as a property developer, a political adviser and as chief of staff for the New York Mass Transit Authority, before becoming a journalist.
Kurt Schork covered numerous conflicts and wars, including in the Balkans, Iraq, Chechnya, Iraqi Kurdistan, Sri Lanka, and East Timor.
He filed the story Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo, about Boško and Admira, Bosnian Serb boy and Bosniak girl, a couple killed during the Siege of Sarajevo. After cremation half of his ashes was buried next to his mother in Washington, D.C., and half at "Groblje LAV" (The Lion Cemetery) in Sarajevo, next to the grave of Boško and Admira. Mr. Schork has been memorialized posthumously in the dedication of Kurt Schork Street in Sarajevo, and citizenship of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in the dedication of the Kurt Schork newsroom at Jamestown College, his alma mater.
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