Robert Kroon

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Robert L. Kroon (1924,

foreign correspondent from Africa, Asia and Europe for nearly 60 years.[1]

Career

Kroon began his work for the

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Kroon began reporting as a

Geneva, Switzerland, during this time and also reported for Dutch news media outlets while at Time.[1] Kroon reported on several important conflicts for Time magazine. Kroon covered the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising.[1] He also reported from the Belgian Congo as the colony gained its independence from Belgium in the early 1960s.[1]

Additionally, Kroon went on to report for such major news centers as NBC and The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, several Dutch and Belgian radio stations, as well as Benelux television broadcasters later in his career."[1] Kroon always tried to work for a wide range of Dutch media while continuing to report for major international publications, according to Kroon's former boss, Dutch journalist Wibo van de Linde, who was Kroon's boss at Avro and Tros (a weekly news magazine on Dutch television) for 15 years.[1]

Kroon continued to work as a contributor for the

Paris, France, throughout the 1990s.[1] Kroon interviewed a wide range of political leaders and prominent entertainers throughout his career as a journalist. He counted Sukarno, Suharto, Charles de Gaulle, Frank Sinatra, Charlie Chaplin and Peter Ustinov among his most important subjects.[1]

Recently, an endorsement by Robert L. Kroon has appeared in the book 22 Faces written by Judy Byington and published by

MKultra
conspiracy theories, demonic possession and salvation from occult sacrifice by divine intervention. The book was published long after Robert Kroon died, and many question whether Robert Kroon would endorse such a book.

Death

Kroon was diagnosed with

U.N. adviser on sport, Adolf Ogi. Ogi writes, "In this book, Bob looks back on his youth in the Netherlands under Nazi occupation, the independence of Indonesia, and his reports for a U.S. weekly from countries behind the Iron Curtain, at a time when American journalists were not welcome there."[1]
His memoir has not yet been published as of July 2007.

Kroon had reportedly been responding well to his chemotherapy treatment. However, he was admitted to hospital on 20 June 2007 and died four days later in a hospital clinic near Lake Geneva.[1] Kroon was 82. He was survived by his son and daughter, Peter Kroon and Tesa Kroon, as well as his partner, Yvonne Kilian.[1]

References

  1. ^
    The Associated Press
    . 2007-06-25. Retrieved 2007-07-18.

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