Daniel Schorr was born on August 31, 1916 in New York City, New York, USA as Daniel Louis Schorr. He was an actor and writer, known for Watergate (1994), The Game (1997) and The Net (1995). He was married to Lisbeth Bamberger. He died on July 23, 2010 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
[on being on the enemies list]: I consider my presence on the enemies list, a greater tribute than the Emmys list.
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[on declining the coverage of the 1984 Republican National Convention]: It was improper to mix a politician with a journalist.
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[His first Twitter in December 2009]: Big day in my career. First time I composed my commentary for All Things Considered on my computer. Good-bye, typewriter.
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He is survived by his son, Jonathan Schorr; his daughter, Lisa Schorr Kaplan; and one grandchild.
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He attended City College of New York in New York City. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1943.
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He was the son of Belarussian Jewish immigrants who came to America and settled in the Bronx, New York.
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He was a journalist for the Jewish Daily Bulletin and then the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in New York City. He then joined Aneta, the news agency of the Netherlands East Indies, before and after his service in the Army.
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He returned to the United States where he worked for the New York Times and interviewed Robert Moses regarding Lincoln Center project but he returned to the Netherlands until February 1953.
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In February 1953, a severe storm devastated the Netherlands. He reported for the dispatches, which impressed Edward R. Murrow to invite him to come to work for CBS News.
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After working for CBS from 1953 until 1976, he worked as a journalism professor at the University of California in Berkeley and a freelance writer for the Des Moines Register and the Tribute in Des Moines, Iowa.
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From 1979 to May 1985, he became CNN's first employee as senior news analyst.
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Friends with musician Frank Zappa, and appeared, on stage, with Zappa to appeal to the audience to register for the vote.
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Former CBS News bureau chief in Moscow.
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Last surviving member of "Murrow's Boys", the legendary team of watchdog journalists who were brought together at CBS by Edward R. Murrow after World War II.
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As of January 2005, still on the air as a news analyst for National Public Radio.
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