Larry LeSueur

Laurence Edward LeSueur (June 10, 1909 – February 5, 2003) was an American journalist, who was a war correspondent during World War II. He worked closely with Edward R. Murrow and was one of the original Murrow's Boys. He died in 2003 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.

Larry LeSueur was born on June 10, 1909 in New York City. Both his father and 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 began studies at New York University (NYU) in 1927. LeSueur studied English at NYU and in 1932 he received his bachelor's degree. LeSueur's first jobs out of college were at Macy's and Women's Wear Daily. Shortly after he began working as a reporter for United Press, a wire syndicate.

In 1939 LeSueur traveled to England, where he approached Edward R. Murrow about a job. He was subsequently hired by CBS and Murrow. LeSueur covered the war across Europe, filing radio reports from Russia and London. He covered the war on London After Dark, along with Murrow and Eric Sevareid, reporting the ongoing London Blitz. 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 Dachau and Mauthausen concentration camp liberations. He delivered the first broadcast to American listeners from a liberated Paris via underground radio broadcast which had not been cleared by military censors. For this he was cited by the War Department for "outstanding and conspicuous service" and awarded the French Legion of Honor and French Liberation Medal.

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