Gordon Manning
Gordon Manning | |
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Born | May 28, 1917 |
Died | September 6, 2006 | (aged 89)
Nationality | American |
John Gordon Manning Jr. (28 May 1917 – 6 September 2006) was a news executive at
Biography
Manning was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where his parents worked in a watchmaking factory. He graduated from Boston University in 1941, having served as editor of the student newspaper in college.
Manning joined the staff of
Journalism career
After the war, Manning worked in a series of menial editing jobs until he was assigned to write a feature article on New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra for Collier's magazine. The response to that feature resulted in Manning being hired as a managing editor at Collier's.
When Collier's ceased publication, Manning joined the staff of Newsweek. Manning's coverage of the
Accomplishments
While at CBS News, Manning helped direct coverage of the
In May, 1970, six members of a CBS News camera team disappeared in Cambodia while covering the civil war there. Manning flew to the scene and hired a Cambodian Army unit to protect him in the search for the missing journalists. Four of them, led by correspondent George Syvertsen, were discovered in shallow graves near the side of a road where they had been ambushed and killed by the Khmer Rouge. Manning supervised the recovery of the bodies and evacuation to their homes for proper burials.
When
Death
Manning died at