Jerry Rosholt

Background

Rosholt was born during 1923 in Glasgow, Montana.

Education

Rosholt attended Luther College, but was interrupted by World World War World War II After the war, he was graduated from Luther with a degree in mathematics in 1948.

Career

He has one younger brother, Norman Tegnear Rosholt. During the war, he served with the 95th Infantry Division. As a journalist in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, Rosholt was head writer the radio personality Cedric Adams at Washburn Crosby Company . He also worked for the Associated Press in Minneapolis.

In 1962, Rosholt started working for National Broadcasting Company News in Philadelphia at WRCV-television In 1964, he represented National Broadcasting Company for the News Election Service, supervising the collection of votes for NES in three states.

In 1966, he transferred to New York City, writing for W National Broadcasting Company radio. Following his reports on the August 1967 riots in Newark, New Jersey, he was promoted to the Huntley-Brinkley Report.

He also covered the United States. - United States.S.R. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks), the Sadat-Begin Peace Talks, the William Calley trial, several Civil Rights demonstrations, anti-Vietnam War protests and national political conventions from 1964 to 1988. In 1972, when John Chancellor took over as anchor of the National Broadcasting Company Nightly News, Chancellor selected Rosholt as his personal producer and head editors

They worked together until Chancellor was replaced by Tom Brokaw.

Transferring to National Broadcasting Company News Computers, Rosholt finished his career rising to the level of director and retiring in 1988. In 1996, Rosholt was asked by Darell Henning, curator of Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, to compile a database of Norwegian immigrants who fought in the United States. Civil War. In 2003, Vesterheim opened an exhibit on Norwegian-American soldiers.

Accompanying the exhibit was the database and a book, also written by Rosholt, titled Ole Goes to War: Men from Norway Who Fought in America"s Civil War.

The book contained stories and pictures Rosholt had found during his research.

Achievements

• During college, Rosholt twice won national forensic championships in extemporaneous speech, both times winning the college division and then representing the college division in the university division and winning lieutenant Luther College later honored him with the first Oliver Eittreim Award for Excellence in Broadcast Media (1977) and a Distinguished Service Award (1998). Foreign this report, Rosholt was awarded the Distinguished Journalist Award by Sigma Delta Chi (now known as the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award) From 1960 to 1962, Rosholt represented Lutheran Film Associates in the distribution of the motion picture Question 7. During the final years of the Huntley-Brinkley Report and during the period of time that David Brinkley was anchor of the National Broadcasting Company Nightly News, Rosholt was a field producer, notably covering the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, which won Emmys in every category of television news coverage. In September 2006, Rosholt was awarded the Street Olav"s medal by King Harald V of Norway “in recognition of great services to Norway, in particular active involvement with the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum on its Civil War project" The medal was presented on October 21 in Decorah, Iowa, by Norwegian Consul General Rolf Hansen.