Ritchie Boys Wiki

Schoenbrun, David Franz (32904876): Difference between revisions

← Older edit
VisualWikitext
Clarify museum roster and Dan Gross research sources
Biography enrichment from Wikipedia (merged with existing sources)
 
(10 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 4: Line 4:
|surname=Schoenbrun
|surname=Schoenbrun
|first=David
|first=David
|middle=F.
|middle=Franz
|birth_year=1915
|birth_year=1915
|death_year=1988
|death_year=1988
Line 18: Line 18:
|birth_date=15 March 1915
|birth_date=15 March 1915
|death_date=23 May 1988
|death_date=23 May 1988
|birth_place=New York City, U.S.
|birth_place=New York City
|death_place=New York City, U.S.
|death_place=New York City
|alias=David Franz Schoenbrun
|alias=David Franz Schoenbrun
|known_for=Journalist
|known_for=Journalist
|class_number=9
|class_display=9
|awards=French Croix de Guerre; French Legion of Honor
|awards_grid=French Croix de Guerre;;French Legion of Honor
|awards_ribbons=Ribbon_Croix_de_Guerre_1939-1945.png; Ribbon_Legion_Honneur_Chevalier.png
|awards_ribbon_rows=Ribbon_Croix_de_Guerre_1939-1945.png;;Ribbon_Legion_Honneur_Chevalier.png
|awards_extra=
}}
}}


<div class="soldier-lead">
<div class="soldier-lead">
David Franz Schoenbrun (March 15, 1915 – May 23, 1988) was an American broadcast journalist.
'''David Franz Schoenbrun''' (15 March 1915 &ndash; 23 May 1988) was an American broadcast journalist who entered [[Camp Ritchie]] [[:Category:Class 9|Class 9]] in 1943 and served in military intelligence and as a war correspondent from North Africa to the liberation of France, and who was later CBS News bureau chief in Paris and one of "Murrow's Boys".
</div>
</div>


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
David Franz Schoenbrun was born on 15 March 1915 in New York City. After graduating from the City College of New York in 1934, where he also did graduate work, he taught French and Spanish and became a freelance writer. In 1941 he went to Europe with the Office of War Information as editor of its Western European desk.


David Franz Schoenbrun (March 15, 1915 – May 23, 1988) was an American broadcast journalist.
Schoenbrun enlisted in the Army in New York City in 1943. Recruited to Camp Ritchie for his knowledge of French, he entered [[:Category:Class 9|Class 9]] (French) on 21 June 1943 but was dropped from the class. Assigned to military intelligence, he served as an operations intelligence officer with the Office of War Information in Algiers and as a war correspondent from North Africa through the liberation of France, covering the invasion of southern France in 1944. He was decorated with the French Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor.
 
Schoenbrun was born in New York City in 1915. He began his career teaching French and Spanish after graduating from City College in 1934.
 
Schoenbrun enlisted in the Army in 1943 and became a World War II correspondent covering North Africa through to the liberation of France, for which he was decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honour. Schoenbrun was recruited to Camp Ritchie for his knowledge of French and is considered to be one of the Ritchie Boys.
 
After the war, from 1947 to 1964, Schoenbrun worked for CBS, serving primarily as the network's bureau chief in Paris, where he met and interviewed the President Charles de Gaulle a number of times. He was one of the reporters known as Murrow's Boys.
 
In 1959, at the age of 44, Schoenbrun received the Alfred I. duPont Award.
 
From the 1960s through the 1980s, Schoenbrun served as a news analyst for WNEW Radio in New York (now WBBR) and other Metromedia broadcast properties, and later for crosstown WPIX Television and its Independent Network News operation. In the mid-1970s, he served as a foreign affairs analyst for a short-lived public television channel in Los Angeles.
 
Schoenbrun is the author of On and Off the Air, a personal account of the history of CBS News through the 1970s. Schoenbrun also wrote several books concerning World-War-II-era France and other works drawn from his experiences as a newsman.
 
Schoenbrun died of a heart attack in New York City, at the age of 73.


Schoenbrun joined CBS in May 1947, when Edward R. Murrow appointed him chief Paris correspondent, and he remained with the network until 1964, primarily as Paris bureau chief, interviewing President Charles de Gaulle several times; he was one of the correspondents known as "Murrow's Boys." In 1954 he was the only American correspondent inside the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu, and he was the first broadcast journalist to report from North Vietnam; he later wrote that he had tried without success to warn Americans that only the Communists could win in Vietnam after the French defeat. He received the Alfred I. duPont Award in 1959. He left CBS in 1964 after a policy dispute and from the 1960s through the 1980s was a news analyst for WNEW Radio and other Metromedia stations and later for WPIX Television and its Independent Network News; he also presented a weekly program for United Nations radio and was Murrow Professor Emeritus at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. His books include ''On and Off the Air'', a history of CBS News, and several best-selling works on wartime France and Charles de Gaulle; he became one of the best-known American Francophiles. Schoenbrun died of a heart attack at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan on 23 May 1988, aged 73.


== Research notes ==
== Research notes ==
Line 112: Line 107:
| row_source || demographics
| row_source || demographics
|}
|}
== Timeline ==
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed soldier-timeline">
<div class="soldier-timeline-body">
* 15 March 1915 — Born in New York City.
* 1934 — Graduated from City College of New York.
* 1941 — Editor of the Office of War Information's Western European desk.
* 1943 — Enlisted in the U.S. Army.
* 21 June 1943 — Entered Class 9 (French) but ‘Dropped’.
* 1944 — Covered the invasion of southern France.
* May 1947 — Joined CBS as chief Paris correspondent.
* 1954 — Only American correspondent inside the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu.
* 1959 — Received the Alfred I. duPont Award.
* 1964 — Left CBS.
* 23 May 1988 — Died in Manhattan, New York City.
</div>
</div><div style="clear: both;"></div>


== Sources ==
== Sources ==
Line 119: Line 131:
* NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
* NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
* 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
* 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
* Dan Gross, ''Timeline of David F. Schoenbrun for Camp Ritchie'' (private research document; 2 source documents reviewed)
* Dan Gross, ''Timeline of Schoenbrun, David F. for Camp Ritchie'' (private research files; selected non-private narrative findings; 2 source files: DAVID F. SCHOENBRUN.doc, DAVID SCHOENBRUN.doc)
Retrieved from "https://ritchieboys.org/wiki/Schoenbrun,_David_Franz_(32904876)"