John Rich (war correspondent)

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John Rich (August 5, 1917 – April 9, 2014) was an American war correspondent for NBC News.[1]

Career

Rich spent nearly 30 years as a war correspondent for NBC News. A graduate of

Emperor Hirohito
. Additionally, he covered Shanghai's fall to the communists.

Rich began working for NBC in late 1950 and arrived in Korea less than a week after the war began. He worked there for over three years – longer than any other American correspondent. Having been used mostly for radio, he appeared on

RCA Corporation
.

After having been retired for many years, Rich was featured in NBC Nightly News' Making a Difference segment on July 24, 2008.

Korean War coverage and photos

Rich, a

Peabody Award winner, had finally released the photographs that he had taken while covering the Korean War in 1950. The photos, taken with a Nikon Camera and covering a wide variety of subjects from children to generals, are all in color, presenting a rare picture of the "Forgotten War", which is known mostly through black and white images. He had taken hundreds of photos of the Korean War, but never of any other war. Forty of the photos were displayed at the KORUS HOUSE in the Korean Embassy in Washington DC from July 24, 2008 and remained so until August, 11. The photos were then also featured in an article in the November 2008 issue of the Smithsonian Magazine
.

In 2010, Rich sold the rights to distribute 173 photos to Seoul Selection for the first time. The same 173 photos were also turned into a book on May 12 with the same title.[2]

In his later life, Rich lived on the coast of Maine in the house in which he was born.

Books

References

  1. ^ "John Hubbard Rich, Jr obituary". Portland Press Herald. 12 April 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  2. ^ Korea Times: Korean War in Color Archived 2015-06-15 at the Wayback Machine

External links

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