Robert Goralski
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Robert Stanley Goralski | |
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| Born | January 2, 1928 |
| Died | March 23, 1988 (aged 60) McLean, Virginia, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | News correspondent |
Robert Stanley Goralski (January 2, 1928 – March 23, 1988) was a United States news correspondent for NBC News for 15 years in the 1960s and 1970s during a 35-year career in communications.
Biography
Robert Goralski was born in
Journalism career
From 1947 to 1951 he was a full-time news broadcaster at WDWS, Champaign, Illinois, in his student years, becoming news director after graduation. He married the former Margaret Walton, originally of Wilton Junction, Iowa, and later of Silvis, Illinois, in 1948. They met at the University of Illinois-Urbana. As a Naval Reservist, he was recalled to duty during the Korean War, serving as a combat correspondent. After leaving the naval service, he continued his journalism career.
From 1952 to 1956 Goralski worked with Radio Free Asia at Tokyo, Japan, Karachi, Pakistan, and New Delhi, India.[1] He produced, wrote and narrated the series "The Voice of Asia." From 1956 to 1961, Goralski moved to the Voice of America, in Washington, D.C., where he supervised broadcasts as English editor for Asia and Chief of the Burmese Service. He also oversaw production and programming, broadcast and wrote commentaries and feature programs for other services. He also had temporary assignments abroad, primarily in Asia.
NBC News
From 1961 to 1975, Goralski was a television and radio correspondent with NBC News. He served for extended periods as White House, State Department, Pentagon and Energy correspondents. As a White House correspondent, Goralski anchored coverage of John F. Kennedy's funeral for NBC.[2]
In the mid-1960s, Goralski shifted to covering the Pentagon, and spent two years total in Southeast Asia, covering the war in Vietnam. On June 5, 1967, Goralski was one of seven American newsmen from the wire services, the three major American television networks and several individual newspapers across the United States that flew on board the aircraft carrier USS America in the Mediterranean. These seven were soon joined by others, 29 in all including media representatives from England, Greece, and West Germany. At night, Goralski of NBC News and Bill Gill of ABC News teamed up to present the "Gill-Goralski Report" on the shipboard television station, WAMR-TV, a half-hour on the latest developments in the Mideast and around the world.
In the mid-1970s he was back in
After NBC
In 1975, Goralski left broadcasting and accepted a position as Director of Information for
"'We avoid them like the plaque,[sic]' says Robert Goralski, director of Gulf's public relations."[3]
From 1983 until his death in 1988, he was a self-employed author, lecturer and consultant. In 1981, Goralski published the "World War II Almanac, 1931-1945", (G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York,
Death
Goralski died of cancer in
Goralski is survived by his three children, Douglas, Dorothy, and Katherine. His wife, Margaret, who served on the Board of Directors at the Claude Moore Colonial Farm in Langley, Virginia, died after a long illness on January 26, 2013. She was 84.
See also
Notes
- ^ "NEWSMAN ROBERT GORALSKI DIES". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 16, 2021.
- YouTube
- OCLC 1330888409.
- ^ "Archives". Los Angeles Times. March 23, 1988.
References
- Goralski, Robert (1981). World War II Almanac 1931-1945: A Political and Military Record. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 0-399-12548-5.
- Goralski, Robert, Resume, NBC biographical materials, courtesy of his wife, Margaret.
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