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Article: DEATHS IN THE NEWS
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 29, 1988
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David Schoenbrun, a war correspondent recruited for CBS News by
Edward R.
Murrow, died Monday in New York at the age of 73. Mr. Schoenbrun, a
former high school French teacher, was introduced to Murrow by Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower. Mr. Schoenbrun had gone to Europe in 1941 with
the U.S. War Information Office as an editor. He joined the Army in
1943 and covered the invasion of southern France in 1944. Murrow,
famed for his radio coverage of London during the Nazi blitz, hired
Mr. Schoenbrun as a correspondent in Paris, where he became a close
friend of President Charles de Gaulle. He later served in
Washington, D.C., as CBS' main political correspondent.
Leon Shimkin, who helped build ...