Frank Bourgholtzer (October 26, 1919 – October 8, 2010Times staff and wire reports
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''Los Angeles Times'', October 13, 2010. ''Retrieved August 29, 2019.'') was an American

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and

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Career

Born in

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, Bourgholtzer attended Indiana University, where he majored in government and minored in economics and journalism.Distinguished Alumni Awards
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Indiana University Bloomington, The Media School. ''Retrieved August 29, 2019.'' He graduated with a BA in 1940. Bourgholtzer returned to New York after graduation and wrote comic book scripts until joining the

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as a reporter in 1943. He became a Capitol Hill correspondent for the paper in 1945. The following year, Bourgholtzer joined

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as the TV news service's first full-time

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correspondent.Variety staff
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''Variety'', October 13, 2010. ''Retrieved August 29, 2019.'' From 1947 until 1953, he covered

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. During the first live televised tour of the White House, Bourgholtzer convinced the president to play on the piano in the East Room. From the early 1950s through the 1960s, Bourgholtzer worked overseas for NBC News and served as bureau chief in Paris, Bonn, Vienna, Moscow, and Yemen. In 1969 he joined NBC's Los Angeles bureau, where he stayed until retiring in 1986. After retirement, he continued to complete special news assignments, primarily focused on the Soviet Union.

Awards and recognition

In 1965, Bourgholtzer received an Overseas Press Club Award for "best TV reporting from abroad" that recognized his 1964 coverage of the war in Yemen for NBC. When announcing Bourgholtzer's death in 2010, NBC's Brian Williams called him "a renaissance man, elegant but down to earth, an exceptional reporter.""Longtime NBC newsman Frank Bourgholtzer dies"
NBC Nightly News, October 11, 2010. ''Retrieved August 29, 2019.''

Death

Bourgholtzer died at home in

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at age 90 on October 8, 2010.

References

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