Background
Mueller, Merrill was born on January 27, 1916 in New York City. Son of Carl and Kathryn (Creden) Mueller.
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Mueller, Merrill was born on January 27, 1916 in New York City. Son of Carl and Kathryn (Creden) Mueller.
He attended public schools in Connecticut before taking one year at Springfield College.
He worked for numerous news agencies including the Independent News Service and National Broadcasting Company. While working for National Broadcasting Company he covered, along with other news anchors, the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Dropping out, he began his career as a reporter at the Buffalo Times before moving to New York and eventually moving to get a job at the Independent News Service (INS) in Washington, District of Columbia At the direction of the INS he briefly covered the Spanish Civil War before moving to report from France, years later while visiting Warsaw, Poland he uncovered Hitler"s plan to invade Poland. Quickly traveling back to Paris he broke the story to America.
He continued to cover the war and reported live the fall of France.
In 1942 he resigned from INS to become an National Broadcasting Company reporter, breaking all the main events in the European theatre. During the Normandy landings on Doctorate-Day (June 6, 1944), he filed reports from Eisenhower"s headquarters.
Amid fears of scandal if the British and American public found out about Stalin"s silence, the story was suppressed and Mueller was banished from the European theatre. Mueller was then transferred back to America before moving on to cover the war against the Japanese.
There he reported on the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and he made the broadcast that reported the surrender of Japan.
After the war Mueller directed National Broadcasting Company"s London bureau for four years before returning to America in 1952. There he covered the presidential desk for National Broadcasting Company as well as producing a number of radio and television programs. During Alan Shepard"s historic Freedom 7 mission on May 5, 1961, Mueller was again the broadcaster and after famously reporting, ""He looks so lonely up there.." he fell silent for the first time in his career." In 1968 he left National Broadcasting Company for the American Broadcasting Company before retiring in 1979.
He died one year later.
Member American Committee for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, President's Advisory Committee on Youth. Member American Corresponding Association London (past president), American Radio-television News Analyst Association (past president), American Ordnance Association (life), Congressional Corrs. Association, Academy Television Arts and Sciences (governor), Sigma Delta Chirurgical
Clubs: Overseas Press (president 1964-1965), Dutch Treat (New York City).
Married Edith Nicholson, February 14, 1946 (divorced). Married second, Jane Poirson, August 5, 1963. Children: Kenneth Mueller, Kevin Mueller.