Ben Moses
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| Born | 1948 Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Writer, director, producer |
Ben Moses (born 1948) is an American documentarian, television producer, director, writer, and filmmaker best known for Good Morning, Vietnam and the documentary A Whisper to a Roar. Moses has been the executive in charge of television production and programming for General Electric, the executive producer of the ABC-TV affiliate in Washington, DC, and was a producer for Young & Rubicam Advertising in New York.
Moses was born and raised in southern Illinois, and it was his interest in amateur radio that introduced him to the world beyond his small hometown. He received his first "ham" radio license at the age of ten and started talking to other ham operators all over the world via short-wave radio. He received his First Class Television Engineering License at the age of 16. During college at Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied electrical engineering, he worked at the local public television station, KETC, as a cameraman and engineer, and joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). His sophomore year he attended Jacksonville University in Florida, studying theater, and worked as a cameraman at Jacksonville's Channel 10 and was the all-night DJ at WZOK Radio.
The following year, he was recruited to join the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps and trained at Fort Holabird, Maryland. Then he was assigned to the 519th MI Battalion in Miami, Florida, where he interviewed Cuban refugees fleeing Fidel Castro’s government. During the last six months of his enlistment, his unit was deployed to Vietnam, where he joined Armed Forces Radio-Saigon and met the station’s program director, Airman Adrian Cronauer. Their close friendship resulted in Moses' decision to write the story of their experiences at Armed Forces Radio – Saigon, which he titled "Good Morning, Vietnam"
After the Army, Moses' first network television job was in 1970 as a camera assistant for CBS on The Jackie Gleason Show in Miami Beach. He married Andrea Duda, one of the show's dancers, and they moved to New York, where in 1971 he became a producer for Young & Rubicam Advertising. Eighteen months later he joined General Electric as executive in charge of television programming and production for the company’s new General Electric Theatre series of TV documentaries and movies, one of which -– “The Wolfmen”—received an Academy Award. While in New York, Moses earned his private pilot's license and began to write articles for Flying Magazine.
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