Lowell Thomas was a man of many renowned reputations including author, explorer, and a journalist of almost all mediums. His spirit and vivacity within his writing gave him the ability to make any story sound newsworthy and could capture the attention of any reader.
His career began as a reporter for the Chicago Evening Journal while he was in college, but his most famous work was done when he travelled to Europe to film World War I. Arriving in the Middle East to film the British entering Jerusalem, he captured an officer named Captain T. E. Lawrence. Thomas reordered climatic images of Lawrence and would eventually travel the world screening With Allenby in Pakistan and Laurence in Arabia. The show would make Thomas a millionaire and Lawrence a celebrity with showings in Australia, Asia, and New Zealand. During his work covering the war he served as a foreign correspondent for the New York Globe.
He would go on to write books, including one about Lawrence, but soon gained fame as a broadcaster. He worked for CBS as a nightly commentator replacing Floyd Gibbons and would host the first television news broadcast in 1930. However, Thomas loved radio and would work delivering the news into people's homes from areas all over the globe until his retirement.
Norman R. Bowen remarked that "no other journalist or world figure, with the possible exception of Winston Churchill, has remained in the public spotlight for so long." Thomas' hunger for adventure lead him to give his audiences a window into the world. Lowell Thomas is unlike any other broadcast journalist, due to his ability to marry so many different mediums so effectively.
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http://www.satwf.com/getdoc/c07a81a6-153a-4d90-bdaa-4c64f0d067af/Who_is_Lowell_Thomas
http://www.pbs.org/lawrenceofarabia/players/thomas.html
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