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David Franz Schoenbrun (March 15, 1915 – May 23, 1988) was an Americanbroadcast journalist.

Schoenbrun was born inNew York City in 1915. He began his career teaching French and Spanish after graduating from City College in 1934.^[1]

Schoenbrun enlisted in the Army in 1943 and became aWorld War II correspondent covering North Africa through to the liberation of France, for which he was decorated with theCroix de Guerre and theLegion of Honour.^[2] Schoenbrun was recruited toCamp Ritchie for his knowledge of French and is considered to be one of theRitchie Boys.

After the war, from 1947 to 1964, Schoenbrun worked forCBS, serving primarily as the network's bureau chief inParis, where he met and interviewed the PresidentCharles de Gaulle a number of times. He was one of the reporters known asMurrow's Boys.^[3]

In 1959, at the age of 44, Schoenbrun received theAlfred I. duPont Award.^[4]

From the 1960s through the 1980s, Schoenbrun served as a news analyst for WNEW Radio in New York (nowWBBR) and otherMetromedia broadcast properties, and later for crosstownWPIX Television and itsIndependent Network News operation. In the mid-1970s, he served as a foreign affairs analyst for a short-lived public television channel in Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]}

Schoenbrun is the author ofOn and Off the Air, a personal account of the history of CBS News through the 1970s. Schoenbrun also wrote several books concerning World-War-II-era France and other works drawn from his experiences as a newsman.

Schoenbrun died of a heart attack in New York City, at the age of 73.^[1]

• Schoenbrun, David (1957).As France Goes.Harper.ASIN B0006D8POY.
• Schoenbrun, David (1963).Casebook of a Southern Senator. Esquire.ASIN B0007FRPN8.
• Schoenbrun, David (1968).Vietnam: How We Got In, How To Get Out.Holiday House.ISBN 978-0689102424.
• Schoenbrun, David (1968).The Three Lives of Charles de Gaulle.Atheneum Books.ASIN B0000CN0TD.
• Schoenbrun, David (1973).The New Israelis.Atheneum Books.ASIN B000P1QLIE.
• Schoenbrun, David (1976).Triumph in Paris: The exploits of Benjamin Franklin.Harper & Row.ISBN 978-0060138547.
• Schoenbrun, David (1980).Soldiers of the Night.E. P. Dutton.ISBN 978-0525206637.
• Schoenbrun, David (1986).America Inside Out.Mcgraw-Hill.ISBN 978-0070554771.
• Schoenbrun, David (1989).On and off the Air: An Informal History of CBS News.Dutton Adult.ISBN 978-0525247654.
• Schoenbrun, David (1990).Maquis: The Story of the French Resistance.Robert Hale Ltd.ISBN 978-0709042341.

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