13 Facts About Bryson Rash

Bryson Brennan Rash was an American journalist who reported on radio and television for CBS, NBC, and ABC affiliates.

Bryson Rash was ABC's White House correspondent from 1942 through 1956, thereafter reporting from Washington for the NBC network for the next twenty years.

Bryson Rash graduated from Washington University in St Louis, and earned a Juris Doctor from American University.

Bryson Rash became an announcer for KWK and KMOX in St Louis, and then worked for WLW in Cincinnati in 1936.

In 1951, Bryson Rash did the first nationwide television broadcast for the signing ceremony for the Treaty of San Francisco.

Bryson Rash returned to NBC in 1957, working at WRC-TV, the network's owned-and-operated station in Washington, where he did both local newscasts and network radio and television reports.

Bryson Rash was elected president of the National Press Club that year.

Bryson Rash won Emmy Awards for public service in 1963 and 1973, and won a Peabody Award for his reporting on District of Columbia home rule.

Bryson Rash was inducted into the "Journalism Hall of Fame" of Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists.

Bryson 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".

Bryson Rash retired from NBC in 1977, and continued to work as an independent journalist.

Bryson Rash hosted programs on WETA-TV, winning a local Emmy Award in 1988.

Bryson Rash died from emphysema at his home in Washington, DC.