Murray Fromson | |
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| Born | (1929-09-01)September 1, 1929 The Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 9, 2018(2018-06-09) (aged 88) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery[1] |
Murray Fromson (September 1, 1929[2] – June 9, 2018)[3] was aCBS correspondent and professor emeritus atUniversity of Southern California'sSchool of Journalism, andCenter on Public Diplomacy. He was educated in theLos Angeles Unified School District, includingBelmont High School inDowntown Los Angeles.[citation needed]
Fromson first went toVietnam 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 theKorean andVietnam Wars, theLeonid Brezhnev years of the formerSoviet Union, conflicts inMalaya,Indonesia,Burma, and developments inChina.
In early 1968, while reporting theVietnam War forCBS News, Fromson was injured by rocket fire, during the battle forKhe Sanh following theTet Offensive. He then returned to the U.S. where he worked for CBS out ofChicago.
In theUnited States, he reported presidential politics,civil rights, the anti-war movement, and the conspiracy trial in Chicago (the trial of the so-called "Chicago Seven").
When theRichard Nixon Justice Department threatened tosubpoena journalists' notes and television outtakes in the late 1960s, Fromson proposed the formation of theReporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
He and hisCBS colleagues were awarded twoOverseas Press Club awards for their reporting on the fall ofSaigon in 1975.
Fromson joined USC's journalism faculty in 1982 and soon founded and directed theCenter for International Journalism. The program recruited and trained more than 100 journalists specializing in reporting onCuba,Mexico and otherLatin American nations.
He was Director of USC's School of Journalism in theUSC Annenberg School for Communication for five years from 1994 to 1999 when he stepped down to work on a memoir about theCold War.
In the year 2000, he was named a fellow in theJoan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at theJohn F. Kennedy School of Government, a part ofHarvard University.