- Born
- Died
- Nickname
- Danny
- Daniel Pearl was born on October 10, 1963 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He was married to Mariane Pearl. He died on January 31, 2002 in Karachi, Pakistan.
- SpouseMariane Pearl(August 8, 1999 - January 31, 2002) (his death, 1 child)
- ChildrenAdam Daniel Pearl
- ParentsRuth Pearl
- RelativesTamara Pearl(Sibling)Michelle Pearl(Sibling)
- Attended grade school with Lisa Kudrow.
- A reporter for the Wall Street Journal, he was lured into a trap by Islamic terrorists who kidnapped him, then videotaped their beheading him and distributed it to the world media.
- Pearl began at the Wall Street Journal's Atlanta bureau in 1990, moving to the Washington, D.C., bureau in 1993 to cover telecommunications. He jumped to the Journal's London bureau in 1996, writing articles such as the October 1994 story of a Stradivarius violin allegedly found on a highway on-ramp, and a June 2000 story about Iranian pop music. His most notable investigations covered the ethnic wars in the Balkans, where he discovered that charges of one alleged genocide committed in Kosovo were unsubstantiated, and the American missile attack on a supposed military facility in Khartoum, which he proved to be a pharmaceutical factory.
- Daniel Pearl was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and grew up in the Encino district of Los Angeles, California, where he attended Portola Middle School and Birmingham High School.
- His wife gave birth to their son, Adam Daniel Pearl, on May 28th, 2002; 3 months after Daniel's death. His wife, Mariane, gave their son Daniel as his middle name in honor of Daniel.
- My father's Jewish, my mother's Jewish, I'm Jewish.
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