Larry LeSueur papers

Laurence Edward "Larry" LeSueur was a Peabody-award winning radio correspondent best known as one of "Murrow's Boys," a band of international correspondents assembled in Europe before and during World War II by Edward R. Murrow. He was born in New York in 1909, and began his career as a print journalist for United Press in the 1930s. He left New York for London in 1939, introduced himself to Murrow, and secured a position with him on the CBS Radio Network. He reported from the Russian front in 1941 and 1942, with a weekly radio broadcast called "An American in Russia," and wrote a book on the experience called Twelve Months that Changed the World, published in 1943.

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, LeSueur was one of the first journalists to land at Normandy and report back news of the battle to Americans at home. He covered Europe throughout the war, including broadcasting news of the liberation of Paris. After the war, LeSueur continued broadcasting for CBS Radio as White House correspondent, most notably from the Paris Peace Conference. He left CBS in 1963 but continued covering the White House, for Voice of America, until his retirement in 1984. He died on February 5, 2003 at the age of 93.