The New York Times has issued two corrections to fix five errors in a story about the first black aviator in the the U.S. Navy:
July 31, 2013:
An article on Tuesday about the visit of a former Navy pilot, Lt. Thomas J. Hudner Jr., to North Korea to seek the remains of a fellow airman, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, whom he had tried to rescue when Ensign Brown’s plane was shot down in the Korean War, misspelled the given name of North Korea’s current leader. He is Kim Jong-un, not Jung-un. The article also referred incorrectly to a desegregation order that occurred two years before Lieutenant Hudner met Ensign Brown, who was the first black aviator in the Navy. It applied to the entire military, not just to the Army. In addition, the article misstated the month in which the former basketball star Dennis Rodman visited Mr. Kim, the first American to do so since the North’s young leader took over from his father in 2011. It was February, not April. And because of an editing error, the article misstated the given name of Ensign Brown’s widow. She is Daisy Brown Thorne, not Daily.
July 30, 2013:
An earlier version of a picture caption with this article referred incorrectly to Ensign Brown. He was first black aviator in the the Navy, not in the United States military.
