# Dith Pran Dead at 65

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dith-pran-dead-at-65/443350>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 31, 2008, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dith-pran-dead-at-65/443350 "2008-03-31T04:22:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dith-pran-dead-at-65/443350/1 "2008-03-31T04:22:00Z")

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Of pancreatic cancer. Story [here](http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/03/30/dith.pran.obit.ap/index.html). His story was told in _The Killing Fields._

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**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dith-pran-dead-at-65/443350/2 "2008-03-31T13:24:04Z")

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I just watched this film a couple of weeks ago for a Southeast Asia class I’m taking and it was frightening what that guy went through personally as well as his country in general. At least he got to live a normal life for 25 years or so in the US.

As an aside when I went to rent this film I was sure it had James Woods in it. Research has now told me that I was thinking of “The Onion Field” which has nothing to do with Cambodia.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dith-pran-dead-at-65/443350/3 "2008-03-31T15:29:50Z")

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I may be wrong, but I think he’s the first real person to die after the actor who won an Oscar portraying him did (Dr. Haing S. Ngor was murdered in 1996).

RIP.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dith-pran-dead-at-65/443350/4 "2008-03-31T16:15:24Z")

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How many Cambodians does it take to change a light bulb?

[spoiler]Both of them.

I am **so** going to Hell . . .[/spoiler]

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dith-pran-dead-at-65/443350/5 "2008-03-31T16:20:22Z")

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😃