John Rich (August 5, 1917 – April 9, 2014) was a war correspondent for NBC News.
Table of Contents
- 1 Career
- 1.1 Earth to God
- 1.2 Earth To God
- 1.3 Son of a Preacher Man
- 1.4 Rich Rocks
- 1.5 Rich Girl [Explicit]
- 1.6 Shut up About Politics
- 1.7 John Rich Music Press Reflections of Grace (Piano Solos for Communion) PIANO SOLO arranged by Mark Looney
- 1.8 Underneath The Same Moon
- 1.9 Rich Girl
- 1.10 The Good Lord And The Man
Career
Rich spent approximately 30 years as a stroke correspondent for NBC News. A graduate of Bowdoin College, he became a U.S. Marine in 1942 and made four D-Day landings in the Pacific Theater. After the war, while involved in Tokyo for William Randolph Hearst’s International News Service, he interviewed General Douglas MacArthur and traveled with Emperor Hirohito. Additionally, he covered Shanghai’s fall to the communists.
Rich began functioning for NBC in late 1950 and arrived in Korea less than a week after the feat began. He worked there for on summit of three years- longer than any further American correspondent. Having been used mostly for radio, he appeared upon The Today Show to lid the ceasefire talks and eventually became a television correspondent. After having covered the Korean War, he took a wide variety of assignments, heading the NBC outfit in Berlin for four years and reporting on the Vietnam War for ten years. He reported on nearly every major armed combat that occurred during his epoch at NBC. By the decline of his career, he became NBC’s senior Asian correspondent and was appointed vice-president of RCA Corporation.
After having been retired for many years, Rich was featured in NBC Nightly News’ Making a Difference segment on July 24, 2008.
Last update 2021-08-06