David F. Schoenbrun
Personal details
Birth nameDavid Franz Schoenbrun
Born15 March 1915
New York City
Died23 May 1988
New York City
NativityUnited States
ReligionJewish
Known forJournalist
AwardsFrench Croix de Guerre; French Legion of Honor
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch United States Army
ASN32904876
Camp RitchieClass 9 (21 June – 18 August 1943)
EnlistedNew York City, New York
Awards and honors
French Croix de Guerre French Legion of Honor
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David Franz Schoenbrun (March 15, 1915 – May 23, 1988) was an American broadcast journalist.

Biography edit

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.

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 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.

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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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
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Timeline edit

  • Born 1915.
  • Murrow's original team in the 1940's, died at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan yesterday morning.
  • 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.
  • Murrow who as an author became one of the world's best-known Francophiles, has died at age 73.

Sources edit

  • 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)
  • 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)