Larry LeSueur

Laurence Edward LeSueur (June 10, 1909 – February 5, 2003) was an American journalist and a war correspondent during World War II. He worked closely with Edward R. Murrow and was one of the original Murrow Boys.

Early life LeSueur was born on June 10, 1909, in New York City. Both his father and his paternal grandfather were journalists; his grandfather ran a newspaper while an Indian Agent in Tama, Iowa, and his father was a foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune. LeSueur's first jobs out of college were at Macy's and Women's Wear Daily. He was subsequently hired by CBS and Murrow. He reported extensively from the Soviet Union after he was assigned to Moscow in 1941.

LeSueur covered D-Day, the Liberation of Paris, as well as the Liberation of Dachau and Mauthausen concentration camp. It took a week until his broadcasts from the first day of Normandy could be heard by US listeners.

He was awarded the Medal of Freedom for his reporting on World War II.

Awards and honors French Legion of Honor French Liberation Medal Medal of Freedom Peabody Award: 1948 – Institutional Award for Outstanding Programming in the Promotion of International Understanding.

Selected publications Twelve Months That Changed the World (1943)