NEW : `` Reports of my survival may be exaggerated , '' Colvin wrote hours before her death . The letter was written by Colvin's friend and fellow journalist Robert F. Kennedy, who had been covering the war in Vietnam for CBS News since 1968. So her response , her last message to us , said , ' I think the reports of my survival may be exaggerated . Colleagues remember longtime reporter Marie Colvin as `` a class act '' Prize-winning French photographer Remi Ochlik , 28 , also dies in shelling .
NEW : `` Reports of my survival may be exaggerated , '' Colvin wrote hours before her death . The letter was written by Colvin's friend and fellow journalist Robert F. Kennedy, who had been covering the war in Vietnam for CBS News since 1968. Colleagues remember longtime reporter Marie Colvin as `` a class act '' Prize-winning French photographer Remi Ochlik , 28 , also dies in shelling .