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Why Don Hollenbeck Fascinated Me Enough to Write His Biography

In writing CBS's Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism(Columbia University Press), I wish I could say that I wrote out of a sense that Faulkner was right:"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

Sure, the paranoid state of mind and demonizing of the press so evident in the era of McCarthyism exists today in the age of terrorism. Hollenbeck, who was portrayed as a Commie-loving traitor by conservative columnists and killed himself in 1954 (captured in George Clooney's 2005 movie"Good Night, and Good Luck"), would be dismissed by today's conservative partisans as a member of the effete left/liberal media elite.

But, true confession, I wrote the biography of the talented CBS correspondent only because his career--a story of firings and failed marriages, McCarthyism and suicide, conscience and courage--intrigued me.

First, I wanted to know why the gifted journalist--described by a CBS president as"one of the few great writers that broadcasting has produced"--took his own life. Both my p

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Hollenbeck, Don, 1905-1954

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Biography

Don Hollenbeck was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on March 30, 1905. He attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and graduate from the College of Journalism. He began his first job at the Nebraska State Journal in 1926. Later, in 1928, he went to work for the Omaha Bee-News. He moved to New York in 1937 and worked as a picture editor for the Associated Press. In 1943, now working for NBC, he became part of their London staff and then transferred to Algiers where he covered the British Fifth Army troop landings at Salerno, Italy. He joined the CBS radio news staff in 1946 and won the Polk Memorial Award in 1950 from Long Island University for his radio program, "CBS Views the Press." On June 22, 1954 Hollenbeck died by suicide.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Don Hollenbeck, Broadcast Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-0319

Scope and Contents The papers consist of correspondence and radio transcripts created during Hollenbeck’s career with the NBC and th

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Don Hollenbeck

American journalist

Don Hollenbeck (March 30, 1905 – June 22, 1954) was a CBS newscaster, commentator, and associate of Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. He was the writer and producer of CBS Views the Press, a Peabody Award-winning radio show that critiqued powerful print journalists. Hollenbeck was also a frequent critic of McCarthyism and was subject to a smear campaign for his supposed Communist leanings. He died by suicide in 1954 after a tumultuous personal and professional life.

Background

Donald Hollenbeck was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and began reporting the news while at the University of Nebraska.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Hollenbeck's first assignment was to the Nebraska State Journal in 1926. During World War II, he was assigned to the foreign staff of NBC in London in March 1943. From there he went to Algiers just in time to take a place with the British troops landing at Salerno, Italy in September. He went in with the second wave—the assault wave which took the full force of German shells,