Alexander Kendrick (July 6, 1910 in

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

– May 17, 1991) was a

broadcast journalist Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are broadcast by electronic methods instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters. It works on radio (via air, cable, and Internet), television (via air, cable, ...

. He worked for

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...

during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

and was part of a second generation of reporters known as

Murrow's Boys The Murrow Boys, or Murrow's Boys, were the CBS radio broadcast journalists most closely associated with Edward R. Murrow during his time at the network, most notably in the years before and during World War II. Murrow recruited a number of newsm ...

. Before partnering with

Edward R. Murrow Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe f ...

, Kendrick had worked at newspapers in

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and

. Kendrick covered World War II in Europe once he had joined Murrow and CBS. During the war he traveled on

Murmansk Run The Arctic convoys of World War II were oceangoing convoys which sailed from the United Kingdom, Iceland, and North America to northern ports in the Soviet Union – primarily Arkhangelsk (Archangel) and Murmansk in Russia. There were 78 convoys ...

and covered the Eastern Front. After the war ended, Kendrick became the London Bureau Chief for CBS. He is often remembered for helping to bring

Dan Rather Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. (; born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist, commentator, and former national evening news anchor. Rather began his career in Texas, becoming a national name after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hur ...

into journalism. Kendrick was also credited by Walter Cronkite as being Ed Sullivan's source of discovering the Beatles.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-reports-on-the-beatles-in-1963/ ; https://www.goretro.com/2009/07/real-man-who-discovered-beatles.html; Bruce Spizer, The Beatles Are Coming!: The Birth of Beatlemania in America,

Books

*''Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow'' (1969) *''The Wound Within; America in the Vietnam Years, 1945-1974'' (1974)

References

* Overseas Press Club
Alexander Kendrick Memorial Scholarship

1910 births 1991 deaths Television personalities from Philadelphia American male journalists American reporters and correspondents CBS News people 20th-century American writers Journalists from Pennsylvania 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American male writers Central High School (Philadelphia) alumni {{US-journalist-1910s-stub