Schoenbrun, David F. (32904876)

David F. Schoenbrun
Personal details
Birth name	David Franz Schoenbrun
Born	15 March 1915 New York City, U.S.
Died	23 May 1988 New York City, U.S.
Nativity	United States
Religion	Jewish
Known for	Journalist
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Army
ASN	32904876
Enlisted	New York City, New York

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David Franz Schoenbrun (March 15, 1915 – May 23, 1988) was an American broadcast journalist.

Biography

David Franz Schoenbrun (March 15, 1915 – May 23, 1988) was an American broadcast journalist.

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.

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Technical record

Field	Imported value
Approx Age at Death	73
Nara ASN	32904876
Nara Name	SCHOENBRUN DAVID F
Nara State	23
Nara County	61
Nara POE	2364
Nara DOE	100543
Nara Grade Alpha	PVT
Nara Grade Code	8
Nara Branch Alpha	NO
Nara Branch Code	2
Branch	No branch assignment
Nara Term or Enlistment	5
Term of enlistment	Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Defer. Date	0
Nara Source	0
Nara Nativity	23
Nativity.1	NEW YORK
Nara Year of Birth	15
Nara Race	1
Nara Race Description	White citizen
Nara Education	8
Nara Civilian Occupation	6
Nara Marital Status	2
Nara Height (inches)	4
Nara Weight (lbs)	137
row_source	demographics

Sources

• Wikipedia: David Schoenbrun
• Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data
• Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records
• NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
• 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)