Joanne Herring

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Joanne King Herring
Born
Joanne Johnson

(1929-07-03) July 3, 1929 (age 94)
military government of President Zia-ul-Haq
TitleThe Dame
The Knight
Ambassador
AwardsJinnah Medal (1980s)
International Women's Forum "Women Who Make a Difference" Award, 1987

Joanne King Herring (born July 3, 1929) is an American socialite, businesswoman, political activist, philanthropist, diplomat, and former television talk show host.[1]

Originally from

Consulate-General of Pakistan based in Houston; on special request and favor of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq she is also the recipient of the Jinnah Medal, one of Pakistan's highest honors.[2][3]

Throughout the 1980s, Herring lobbied for United States support for the Mujahideen in Afghanistan in collaboration with U.S. Representative Charlie Wilson.[4] These events inspired the book Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History; Herring is portrayed by actress Julia Roberts in the 2007 film Charlie Wilson's War.[5] Since the September 11 attacks, Herring has stated that she "did not make al-Qaeda" and that she "cannot predict the future."[6]

Herring's second book, Diplomacy and Diamonds: My Wars from the Ballroom to the Battlefield, was released on January 1, 2011.[7]

Life and work

Herring was born Joanne Johnson in Houston, the daughter of Maelan (McGill) and William Dunlap Johnson.

Secretary of State. She enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, but left after her second year to marry real estate developer Robert King.[9]

A fixture on the Houston social circuit, Herring became notorious for the lavish, decadent birthday party her husband threw for her in 1959. The "Roman orgy"-themed affair included period costumes and a mock slave auction, and was covered by

KHOU-TV station. By 1974, her show had moved to KPRC.[10]

Media appearances

Herring appears as herself in the comic 1999 documentary feature Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me and the 1970s

German television news series V.I.P.-Schaukel. In the former—the story of a Houston businessman who marries five times—Herring playfully introduces herself by saying, "Well, my name is Joanne Johnson King Herring Davis, and I've had almost as many husbands as he's had wives." Herring has also appeared on CNN with Ali Velshi multiple times to discuss continued American involvement in Afghanistan
.

Marshall Plan Charities

In 2009, Herring founded Marshall Plan Charities, which seeks to "complement the ongoing U.S. military effort in Afghanistan by rapidly and effectively redeveloping normal, healthy civilian life village by village".[11] The organization unites the efforts of various NGOs concerned with the Afghan people in hopes of providing villages with clean water, food, healthcare, schools, and jobs.[12]

Involvement with Zia-ul-Haq

Herring is known for her long association and with

an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. If you murder, you must die. The only thing Zia did was to not commute Bhutto's sentence. In a country whose constitution demanded capital punishment for murder, Zia could not violate the Law."[13]

In

Zia's administration."[14][15] It was Herring who acquainted Charlie Wilson with Zia who later secured major funding for Pakistan's anti-communist policies.[13]

Over the years, Herring's influence on Zia and his

Consulate-General of Pakistan. In a public ceremony held in Pakistan, Zia personally honored her with Pakistan's highest civilian honor, the Tamgha-e-Quaid-e-Azam (lit. Jinnah Medal).[17] She paid tribute to Zia in her 2011 autobiography.[13][18]

Pakistan Ambassador and former adviser to three Pakistani prime ministers, described Herring as "known more for glamour than for political wisdom", and Zia "showered her with hospitality to use her connections".[19] Haqqani described her as knowing "little about the country," criticizing her for inaccurately describing Pakistan as an "Arab nation" in her memoirs.[19]

Awards

See also

References

  1. ^ Philip Sherwell (December 2, 2007). "How Joanne Herring won Charlie Wilson's War". The Telegraph. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
  2. ^ Niaz, Anjum (February 21, 2010). "An affair to remember". Anjum Niaz. Dawn News. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
  3. ^ "For Joanne King Herring, the ideas keep coming". HoustonChronicle.com. August 1, 2016. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
  4. New York Times
    .
  5. ^ Brown, Daniel (July 3, 2019). "Meeting the Apollo astronauts: How Joanne King Herring remembers them". KPRC. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
  6. ^ a b "How Joanne Herring won Charlie Wilson's War". The Telegraph. December 2, 2007. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  7. OCLC 548634243
    .
  8. ISBN 9781599953823
    . Retrieved March 11, 2018 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ "Joanne Herring King". Stephen F. Austin State University.
  10. ^ "Outtakes from The Joanne King Show (1971)". texasarchive.org. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
  11. ^ "Marshall Plan Charities – Joanne King Herring". joanneherring.com. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
  12. ^ "Joanne Herring – Texas Women's Hall of Fame – Texas Woman's University". twu.edu. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
  13. ^
    ISBN 9781599953823
    . Retrieved June 13, 2014.
  14. ISBN 978-0802141248
    .
  15. ISBN 978-0765614971.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
    )
  16. ^ a b Sirohi, Semma (August 12, 2003). "Pakistan-Israel Nexus: Zia's Secret Star Of David". Work published in outlikk India, by Seema Sirhi. Outlook India. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
  17. ^ Benko, Ralph. "The Fall of the U.S.S.R. Twenty Years Ago: Beauty Killed the Beast". Forbes. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
  18. ^ lebanon.times. "Joanne King Herring, at 90 receives first Woman of Influence Award | Lebanon Times Magazine". Retrieved September 2, 2020.
  19. ^
    ISBN 978-1610393171
    ., page 256
  20. ^ "Women Who Make a Difference Archive" (PDF). International Women's Forum. Retrieved June 27, 2020.

External links

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