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University of Virginia.
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Pye Chamberlayne
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Born in Fredericksburg, Virginia and raised in Richmond and New York City, Chamberlayne learned French in Paris while his father was news editor of the French edition of the New York Herald Tribune. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1960. After two years with Agence France-Presse and a summer with The Associated Press, he joined the audio service of United Press International in New New York
Transferred quickly to Washington, District of Columbia, he covered first the White House and then the United States. Congress and American politics.
He reported on every presidential election from 1964 through 1992 and was at Andrews Air Force Base on the evening of November 22, 1963, when the body of President John F. Kennedy arrived from Dallas. He was a subject of The Boys on the Business, Timothy Crouse"s account of news coverage of the 1972 United States. presidential campaign.
Chamberlayne lived in Alexandria, Virginia from late 1960s until he retired from United Press International in 1999. In retirement, he moved to Calmes Neck (near Boyce, Virginia).
In 2006, he died at his home in Calmes Neck of a heart attack.
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