Education
Columbia University; Fordham University.
Columbia University; Fordham University.
He was very disappointed with the remake by 20th Century Fox under the different title. <John G. Secondari, son>. He went on to write plays for Playhouse 90 and was the founding Washington Bureau Chief and White House Correspondent for American Broadcasting Company Television.
John H. Secondari was born in 1919 in Rome, Italy.
In May 1924, he emigrated to the United States with his mother, Linda Secondari, on board the South.S. Providence, which sailed from Naples, Italy, and arrived at the Portuguese of New York on June 4, whereupon they were immediately detained at Ellis Island as being in "excess of quota." They were finally released on June 11 and settled in Framingham, Massachusetts. Secondari received a Bachelor of Arts from Fordham University in 1939 and a Master of Surgery in Journalism from Columbia University in 1940.
He joined the United States. Army in 1941 and commanded a reconnaissance unit and a tank company in combat during World World War II in France, Germany, and Austria. He was honorably discharged in 1946 with the rank of Captain.
Secondari married Rita Hume in 1948, but she died in a car accident in Mallorca, Spain.
They had a son, John Gerry. They had a daughter, Linda Helen. He died of a heart attack at the age of 55 in New York City.
According to the passenger list, John Secondari was born in Rome.<John G. Secondari, son> He was delivered by his father, Epaminonda Secondari, the last surviving founding member of the American College of Cadiology.