Murray Fromson

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Murray Fromson
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting placeMount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery[1]

Murray Fromson (September 1, 1929

Belmont High School in Downtown Los Angeles.[citation needed
]

Biography

Journalist

Fromson first went to Vietnam in 1956 to report the final departure of the French. Periodically over the next four decades he has observed the country at war and peace from the time of the U.S. involvement up through the early 21st century.

Both as a correspondent and producer, Fromson covered some of the major news events of the past half century, including the

Burma, and developments in China
.

In early 1968, while reporting the Vietnam War for CBS News, Fromson was injured by rocket fire, during the battle for Khe Sanh following the Tet Offensive. He then returned to the U.S. where he worked for CBS out of Chicago.

In the

civil rights, the anti-war movement, and the conspiracy trial in Chicago (the trial of the so-called "Chicago Seven
").

When the Richard Nixon Justice Department threatened to subpoena journalists' notes and television outtakes in the late 1960s, Fromson proposed the formation of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

He and his

Saigon
in 1975.

Educator

Fromson joined USC's journalism faculty in 1982 and soon founded and directed the Center for International Journalism. The program recruited and trained more than 100 journalists specializing in reporting on

Latin American
nations.

He was Director of USC's School of Journalism in the

USC Annenberg School for Communication for five years from 1994 to 1999 when he stepped down to work on a memoir about the Cold War
.

In the year 2000, he was named a fellow in the

John F. Kennedy School of Government, a part of Harvard University
.

References

  1. ^ Murray Fromson
  2. ISBN 9780837909288
    . Retrieved June 9, 2018 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Longtime CBS News correspondent Murray Fromson dies at 88". June 9, 2018. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved June 9, 2018.

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