Jerry Rosholt

As a journalist in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, Rosholt was the head writer for the radio personality Cedric Adams at WCCO.

In 1964, he represented NBC for the News Election Service, supervising the collection of votes for NES in three states.

During the final years of the Huntley-Brinkley Report and during the period of time that David Brinkley was anchor of the NBC 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.

Transferring to NBC News Computers, Rosholt finished his career rising to the level of director and retiring in 1988.

[2] 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 U.S. Civil War.

The medal was presented on October 21 in Decorah, Iowa, by Norwegian Consul General Rolf Hansen.