John Franklin MacVane was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.
13 Facts About John MacVane
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John MacVane gained prominence covering World War II in Europe for NBC News.
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John MacVane received a bachelor's degree from Williams College in 1933 and a master's degree from Oxford University in 1935.
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John MacVane left the country in June 1940 shortly before its fall.
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John MacVane soon joined the newly-established NBC News division as a broadcast journalist and covered the London Blitz alongside Edward R Murrow of CBS News.
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John MacVane continued to work as a war correspondent throughout World War II.
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John MacVane was the only American correspondent to accompany Allied forces during the Dieppe Raid.
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John MacVane accompanied the invasion fleet during the North African campaign in 1942.
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John MacVane returned to London to broadcast the first full eyewitness report of the invasion.
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John MacVane was one of the first correspondents to enter Paris after its liberation.
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John MacVane continued to report from the Western Front until the fall of Berlin, and witnessed the meeting of American and Soviet forces at the Elbe near the end of the war.
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In 1946 John MacVane convinced NBC to open up a bureau at the United Nations.
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John MacVane left NBC in 1950 to serve as an adviser to the United States mission to the UN.