Bryson Rash

Bryson Brennan Rash (August 18, 1913 – November 12, 1992) was an American journalist who reported on radio and television for CBS, NBC, and ABC affiliates.

He was ABC's White House correspondent from 1942 through 1956, thereafter reporting from Washington for the NBC network for the next twenty years.

[1] Broadcasting for WMAL-AM, he conducted a radio report broadcast nationwide from the opening of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945, and helped to convince President Harry S. Truman to make the first televised Oval Office address in October 1947.

[3] In 1951, Rash did the first nationwide television broadcast for the signing ceremony for the Treaty of San Francisco.

[1][4] He was also inducted into the "Journalism Hall of Fame" of Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists.