Hans von Kaltenborn (July 9, 1878 - June 14, 1965) was an American radio commentator. Events 455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1878 ( MDCCCLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. He was heard regularly on the radio for over 30 years, beginning with CBS in 1928. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. He was generally known as H. V. Kaltenborn. He was known for his highly precise diction, his ability to ad lib and his depth of knowledge of world affairs.
Kaltenborn was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up in Merrill. He began his career as a newspaper reporter, but moved to radio when it began to establish itself as a bona fide source of news. When he was 19, he ran off from home and joined up to fight in the Spanish-American War. After that he spent some time in Europe, returning to take a job with the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The Brooklyn Eagle, also called The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, was a daily newspaper published in Brooklyn, New York from October 26 At 24, he went to college, enrolling as a special student at Harvard University. When he finished, he returned to the Eagle, traveling during summers to distant locales.
Kaltenborn was one of the first news readers to provide analysis and insight into current news stories. His vast knowledge of foreign affairs and international politics amply equipped him for covering crises in Europe and the Far East in the 1930s. The Far East is a term often used by people in the Western world to refer to the countries of East Asia. His vivid reporting of the Spanish Civil War and the Czech Crisis of 1938 helped established the credibility of radio news in the public mind and helped to overcome the nation's isolationist sensibilities. The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted Coup d'état committed by parts of the army against the government of As authors Christopher H. Sterling and John M. Kittross wrote, Kaltenborn reported on the Spanish Civil War "while hiding in a haystack between the two armies. Listeners in America could hear bullets hitting the hay above him while he spoke. "
Kaltenborn, who became a CBS Radio Network analyst in 1936, was known as a commentator who never read from a script. The CBS Radio Network provides news sports and other programming to more than 1000 radio stations throughout the United States His talks were extemporaneous, created from notes he had previously written. He broadcast twice a week and paid his own travel expenses in Europe; most of his income came from American lectures. His analysis was welcomed into homes especially during World War II and the time leading up to America’s entry into it. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including
He had an international reputation and was able to speak intelligently about events because he had interviewed many of those involved. From the contacts he developed in his travels and his ability to speak fluent German and French, Kaltenborn seemed chosen for the role he developed at CBS. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people
During the Munich crisis in September 1938, much of what listeners heard was Kaltenborn speaking without scripts even after sometimes having been up for most of a night covering the breaking news. Munich (München; Minga is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Some claimed that when Kaltenborn was awakened during the Munich vigil, one merely had to utter "Munich" and Kaltenborn could talk for hours on the subject. Kaltenborn virtually lived at CBS's New York headquarters during the crisis, resting on a cot in Studio 9 during the rare times he was not broadcasting.
Kaltenborn joined NBC in 1940. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's On election night in 1948, he and Bob Trout, a former CBS colleague, were at the NBC news desk to broadcast the returns of the White House race between President Harry S. Truman and challenger Thomas E. Dewey. Robert (Bob Trout ( October 15, 1909 - November 14, 2000) was an American broadcast news reporter best known for his radio work before and during A News bureau is an office for gathering or distributing News. Thomas Edmund Dewey ( March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was the Governor of New York (1943-1955 and the unsuccessful Republican Throughout the evening, the returns were too close to call. As the evening progressed, Kaltenborn could see a swing in Dewey’s favor. It was enough for him to project Dewey the winner, although the returns were still close. What Kaltenborn didn’t foresee was another swing in the votes going to Truman. As evening turned to early morning, Kaltenborn retracted his original projection and announced Truman as the winner.
On his newscast, Kaltenborn described how Truman did an impersonation of the journalist describing how he (Truman) was losing the election. Kaltenborn took the President’s comments with class as he stated, “We can all be human with Truman. Beware of that man in power who has no sense of humor. ” Kaltenborn laughed at himself as everyone else laughed with him.
Another incidence of embarrassment came when Dizzy Dean was Kaltenborn's guest on the program. Jerome Hanna "Dizzy" Dean ( January 16, 1910 – July 17, 1974) was an American Pitcher in Major League Baseball Exasperated by Dean mispronouncing his name--various sources say "Cattlinbomb," "Cottonborn," etc. --Kaltenborn decided to throw the pitcher a curve and asked him what he would do about Russia. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Ol' Diz didn't miss a beat. He said, "I'd take some bats and balls and gloves and sneak them behind the Iron Curtain and teach them Rooshin kids how to play baseball. The " Iron Curtain " was the symbolic ideological and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II until the end Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Why, if Joe Stallion knowed how much money there was in concessions he'd get out of politics and into an honest business. Joseph Stalin ( ნამდვილი გვარი ჯუღაშვილი|Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili; March 5 1953 was General Secretary of the Communist Party "
Though Kaltenborn left full-time broadcasting in 1953, he provided memorable analyses during NBC's television coverage of the Republican and Democratic conventions in 1956. Those live newscasts were anchored by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley in their first on-air pairing. Kaltenborn was in his mid-seventies when the television age arrived, and some see his time in TV as a disappointment. Forever the radio newsman, Kaltenborn would report everything, including the movements of the subject he was describing, despite the fact that millions of people were watching it.
Kaltenborn had very specific views about radio’s role in presenting the news. Later in life he wrote on the subject through many of his books. He was one of four journalists who portrayed themselves in the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still. The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 1951 Black-and-white Science fiction film that tells the story of a humanoid alien visitor who comes Kaltenborn also appears as himself in the 1939 Frank Capra film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Mr Smith Goes to Washington is a Drama film directed by Frank Capra about one man's effect on American politics.
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