David Schoenbrun

Schoenbrun was born in New York City in 1915. He began his career teaching French.[1]

Schoenbrun enlisted in the Army in 1943 and became a World War 2 correspondent covering North Africa through to the liberation of France, for which he was decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honour.[2]

After the war, from 1947 to 1964, Schoenbrun worked for CBS, serving primarily as the network's bureau chief in Paris, where he met and interviewed the President Charles de Gaulle a number of times. He was one of the reporters known as Murrow's Boys.[3]

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

From the 1960s through the 1980s, Schoenbrun served as a news analyst for WNEW Radio in New York (now WBBR) and other Metromedia broadcast properties, and later for crosstown WPIX Television and its Independent Network News operation. In the mid-1970s, he served as a foreign affairs analyst for a short-lived public television channel in Los Angeles.

Schoenbrun is the author of On 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.

• Appeal of June 18

• David Schoenbrun at IMDb
• David Schoenbrun at Find a Grave
• Appearances on C-SPAN