Radio-TV mirror (Jan-June 1953)

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World traveler The Roleighs — John, Shannon and Elizabeth. When Philadelphia radio listeners tune in the news commentaries of John Raleigh they can be sure that they're getting the real lowdown — because John has been all over the world as a foreign correspondent, and brings his knowledge of far 16 places into his reports. The KYW news commentator served as foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the National Broadcasting Company with the outbreak of war in 1939, covering the German armies as they invaded Poland. One of the experiences John will never forget was his interview with Adolph Hitler in Warsaw on the German leader's arrival to inspect the Polish capital. Less than two months later, he was one of two American newsmen arrested and questioned by the Gestapo for eight hours following the attempted bomb assassination of Hitler in Munich. Later, on leaving Germany, Raleigh smuggled out valuable military information — supposedly known only to the German High Command — which he turned over to American and British military authorities. It was this expose which proved that the renegade "Lord Haw -Haw" who broadcasted over the Nazi propaganda radio was actually a British traitor, William Joyce. Raleigh met his wife, Elizabeth — a former correspondent, too — in New York, married her secretly in Mexico City while on assignment there, and then went with her to the Philippines, China and Java as correspondent for the United Press and CBS. The fact that they were married was still a secret when two competing information services appointed Elizabeth foreign correspondent for them. It was a pretty exciting honeymoon! Now the Raleighs have settled down for a while, spending most of their time with Shannon Raleigh, their very bright tenyear-old daughter. John Raleigh of KYW with his fabulous collection of toy soldiers.