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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".
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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
David attended Born in New York City in 1915, David Franz Schoenbrun taught French and Spanish and became a freelance writer after graduating from City College in 1934. Schoenbrun was born in New York City in 1915.
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.


He began his career teaching French and Spanish after graduating from City College in 1934. He attended Murrow Professor Emeritus at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He attended college CCNY (AB and graduate work).
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 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 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.
 
Schoenbrun was recruited to Camp Ritchie for his knowledge of French and is considered to be one of the Ritchie Boys.
 
David Franz Schoenbrun (March 15, 1915 – May 23, 1988) was an American broadcast journalist. He had gone to Europe in 1941 with the War Information Office as editor of the Western European desk. He joined the Army in 1943, was assigned to Military Intelligence and covered the invasion of southern France in 1944.
 
He murrow appointed him chief Paris correspondent for CBS News in 1947. 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 the only American correspondent inside the French garrison at the historic 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu won by North Vietnam and the first broadcast journalist to report from North Vietnam.
 
He worked as a author of several best-selling books, Schoenbrun left CBS in 1964 in a policy dispute and most recently had been a news analyst for Independent Network News. He worked with such figures of early television news as Fred W. He worked as a his broadcast career began there with a weekly program for the United Nations radio.
 
He known for his reporting on postwar France, both as a radio and television reporter, Mr. He provided weekly news program for the United Nations radio. He served as Operations intelligence officer, OWI in Algiers.
 
He wrote that he tried unsuccessfully to make America aware of the reality that only the Communists could truly win in Vietnam after the French colonial failure. He was one of the reporters known as Murrow's Boys. 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.
 
He murrow's original team in the 1940's, died at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan yesterday morning. He joined the Columbia Broadcasting System in May 1947, after working for Government news services during World War II. He , the only journalist to broadcast from Vietnam when he described the French debacle at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, suffered a heart attack Monday and died in a New York City hospital.
 
He studied Charles de Gaulle. He worked as a murrow who as an author became one of the world's best-known Francophiles, has died at age 73. Schoenbrun died of a heart attack in New York City, at the age of 73.


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* Born 1915.
* 15 March 1915 — Born in New York City.
* Murrow's original team in the 1940's, died at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan yesterday morning.
* 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’.
* 21 June 1943 — Entered Class 9 (French) but ‘Dropped’.
* Schoenbrun, the only journalist to broadcast from Vietnam when he described the French debacle at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, suffered a heart attack Monday and died in a New York City hospital.
* 1944 — Covered the invasion of southern France.
* Murrow who as an author became one of the world's best-known Francophiles, has died at age 73.
* 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.
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