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Frazier Hunt
Frazier Hunt (1885-1967) was an American radio announcer, writer and war correspondent during World War I and World War II. He wrote several books about his experience during both ...view moreFrazier Hunt (1885-1967) was an American radio announcer, writer and war correspondent during World War I and World War II. He wrote several books about his experience during both World Wars as well as historical biographies on famous Americans such as General George Armstrong Custer, Billy the Kid, and Douglas MacArthur.
Born in Rock Island, Illinois, in 1885, Hunt spent his boyhood in Indiana, Chicago and Mexico. He returned to a small mid-western town to edit the local paper. It was with this background that he came to New York City in 1916 and joined the staff of The Sun. From New York he went to France and from there to Russia, where for months he had the Revolution all to himself. In 1919, he smuggled a copy of the Treaty of Versailles, scooping the story.
Hunt had the unique experience of covering for newspapers and magazines every war and revolution, from the original Mexican revolution and World War I down through the great Pacific campaigns of World War II. He served as the European editor for Cosmopolitan Magazine, interviewing Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler. He also traveled to the Far East, covering the Sino-Japanese War.
Following four months at General MacArthur’s headquarters in New Guinea in 1944, he wrote MacArthur and the War Against Japan. In the early 1940s he was one of America’s well-known radio commentators on the CBS Radio Network with Frazier Hunt and the News.
Hunt was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. He died in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania on December 24, 1967, aged 82.view less
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