Leslie Cockburn

Quick Facts

Full Name	Leslie Cockburn
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Sep 2, 1952(1952-09-02)
Age	72
Birthplace	San Mateo
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Virgo

Leslie Cockburn Biography

Leslie Cockburn is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on September 2, 1952 in San Mateo, California, United States. Leslie Cockburn, /’koU b@r n/ KOH-b@rn (born Leslie Corkill Redlich on September 2, 1952), is an American journalist and filmmaker. Her television segments on investigative TV have aired on CBS and NBC as well as PBS Frontline and 60 Minutes. She was awarded an Emmy Award and The Hillman Prize, Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award; Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the George Polk Award.

Cockburn, along with Andrew Cockburn, began making and reporting documentaries on PBS Frontline in 1987. Cockburn and Andrew Cockburn co-created Guns, Drugs and the CIA (1987), a documentary that claimed the CIA encouraged and assisted drug trafficking. Cockburn co-produced and wrote “From the Killing Fields” in 1990 with Peter Jennings, Tom Yellin and Tom Yellin. This documentary was part of the ABC News series Peter Jennings Reporting. In the film, it was alleged that the U.S. supported the Khmer Rouge’s return to power in Cambodia in the 1970s during a genocidal movement that led to the deaths of millions.

In 1991, she and her husband produced the PBS Frontline documentary The War We Left Behind, which showed the effects of the Gulf War on Kurdish and Iraqi civilians. In 1997, Cockburn conceived and co-produced The Peacemaker, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman, a thriller positing a terrorist attack on New York City with a stolen nuclear weapon. In 1998, Cockburn served as Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. In 2000, she produced “America’s Worst Nightmare,” a 60 Minutes report on political instability in nuclear-armed Pakistan and fundamentalist groups linked to the Taliban, a piece that was recognized as “strikingly prophetic” in receiving the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in 2001.

In 2009, Cockburn directed and co-produced (with husband Andrew Cockburn) her first feature documentary for theatrical release, American Casino. It follows the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States which led to the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Cockburn and her husband began filming in January 2008, and documented the financial machinations and miscalculations on Wall Street that produced the disaster, and also documented its effects on several Baltimore homeowners struggling to stay afloat. The film premiered at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival in April 2009.

Cockburn, Peter Jennings, and Tom Yellin have won the Hillman Prize (1984), George Polk Award (2010) and the 1991 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Cockburn’s work received numerous Emmy nominations. Her 1998 documentary Yuri The Great won an Emmy Award.

Leslie Cockburn Net Worth

Leslie Cockburn is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Leslie Cockburn 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Cockburn was a journalist who worked as an investigative reporter for NBC, CBS and PBS Frontline. Cockburn began working for NBC News while she was living in London. One of her first reports included an interview with Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader. Cockburn joined CBS in 1978. She covered six wars during her career, including the U.S.-directed Contra War Against Nicaragua.

Cockburn resides in Rappahannock County with Andrew Cockburn. Andrew Cockburn is a journalist and producer of films. They were married in San Francisco in 1977. They have three children: Chloe Francis Cockburn, Olivia Wilde, and Charles Philip Cockburn.

In 1991, Cockburn and her husband, Andrew, published their first book together on the military and intelligence relationship between the U.S. and Israel after 1948. This book detailed how, over several decades, Israel had served U.S. interests both through espionage operations in the former Soviet Union, as well as covert operations in Central America and other third world regions where the U.S. was loath to intervene directly. The book also detailed Israeli nuclear activities, including U.S, assistance to its bomb-making program and Israeli cooperation with the South African apartheid regime’s nuclear weapons program. The book was a national bestseller in the U.S. and Canada. Kirkus Reviews said the book was “no thrown-together post-Gulf product, but an unflinching, fact-packed, closely reasoned exploration of our relations with our strongest ally in the Middle East.” The Chicago Tribune said the book “should stand for a long time as the alpha and omega of the relationship between the United States and Israel…the Cockburns present the history in rich detail.” Other reviewers in the U.S. attacked the book on grounds that it was critical of Israel, often making their case with selective misquotation of what the book actually said. In Israel itself, the response was more measured. Haaretz reviewed it favorably at length, calling it “credible” Maariv acquired the serial rights.

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Leslie Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Leslie Cockburn celebrates birthday on September 2 of every year.