Philippe Labro (born 27 August 1936) is a French author, journalist and film director.

He received the Prix Interallié for his autobiography L'Étudiant étranger in 1986.

[1] At the age of eighteen, he left France to study at Washington and Lee University in Virginia.

While covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy for French newspaper France-Soir, he met Jack Ruby in Dallas days before he shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald; he was thus subsequently officially interviewed by the Warren Commission.

From 1985 to 2000, he was director of programmes at RTL becoming the vice president of the station in 1992.