Bryson Rash

Bryson Brennan Rash (August 18, 1913 – November 12, 1992) was an American journalist who reported on radio and television for CBS, NBC, and ABC affiliates. He was ABC's White House correspondent from 1942 through 1956, thereafter reporting from Washington for the NBC network for the next twenty years.

Career Rash was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. After his voice changed, he lost the role. He became an announcer for KWK and KMOX in St. Louis, and then worked for WLW in Cincinnati in 1936. After a month at WLW, CBS hired Rash as an announcer for WJSV in Washington, D.C. He also performed broadcasts for the Federal Housing Administration.

NBC hired Rash in 1937. In 1939, he was a member of the first mobile television unit in the nation during an experimental broadcast from the National Mall at the United States Department of Agriculture. He also covered the 1939 British royal visit. and the nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll in 1956. He was also elected president of the National Press Club that year. Rash was acclaimed for his fairness and objectivity, said The Washington Post upon his death, citing a New Yorker magazine cartoon in which two men argue over him, "he's not a Nixon man, but then he wasn't a Johnson man, a Kennedy man, an Eisenhower man, a Truman man or a Roosevelt man, either".

Personal life Rash met his wife, Julie, in 1937. They married in 1940 and had two children.