Gabe Pressman
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Gabriel Stanley "Gabe" Pressman (February 14, 1924 – June 23, 2017) was an American journalist who worked for WNBC-TV in New York City for more than 60 years.
His career spanned more than seven decades; he covered the sinking of the Andrea Doria in 1956, JFK and Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, the Beatles' first trip to the United States, and the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
He was one of the first journalists to leave the studio for on-the-scene coverage" at major events.
Pressman's numerous awards include a Peabody and 11 Emmys, as well as a New York icon.
Early life and education
Benjamin Pressman (1893-1970), the son of Jewish immigrants, was born in Austria, and Lena Rifkin Pressman was born in Russia. His father, a dentist, became a professional magician later in life; he got his start in magic by teaching children about good dental hygiene. Gabe had a younger brother, Paul (1929–2003), who was a psychiatrist.
Pressman graduated from Morris High School. He got his start in journalism as a young boy of 8 or nine, and he created a newspaper for his family with cheeky headlines such as "Grandma's Spongecake Made With Real Sponges." Later, he worked as a cub reporter for the Peekskill Evening Star in Peekskill, PEekskill, during the summers.
He studied at New York University, majoring in History and Government, but his education was interrupted during World War II. He enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of 19 and served from 1943 to 1946. Although serving as a communications officer aboard the submarine chaser USS PC-470 in the South Pacific, he participated in the Philippines Campaign.
Pressman resumed his education after the war, graduating from NYU with a bachelor's degree in 1946 and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism the following year.
Personal life
From 1953 to their divorce in 1967, a journalist was married to Emma Mae Kracht from 1953 to 1967. They had a son and two daughters. He married Vera Elisabeth Olsen, a psychotherapist, with whom he had another son in 1972.
On June 23, 2017, a pressman died at Mount Sinai Hospital Manhattan, aged 93.
Career
Pressman served for a short time as a journalist for the Newark Evening News after obtaining his master's degree from Columbia in 1947. He received a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship from Columbia University, and he spent the next 15 months in Europe as a freelance journalist, including the Overseas News Agency (a Jewish Telegraphic Agency affiliate). He was briefly arrested in Berlin in 1948 while living in the city's Soviet district, which was seen as a sign of increasing hostilities from the Soviet government toward the west. He had been taken to the Polish Consulate Berlin when he was arrested, but two hours later, he was released.
Among the events he covered in Europe was Cardinal József Mindszenty's 1949 show trial, who sluggishly opposed the communist government of Hungary's People's Republic, which Pressman covered for The New York Times and Edward R. Murrow's radio broadcast.
After returning from Europe, Pressman spent time as a reporter for various New York City newspapers before heading to television in 1954 for NBC's radio station WNBC. The bulk of his television career was with NBC. The exception was a seven-year period from 1972 to 1979 when he worked for what was then the Metromedia station, WNEW-TV, Channel 5 (now WNYW). Since 1945, Pressman has chronicled the lives of ten New York City mayors, ten New York State governors, 15 senators from New York, and 13 United States Presidents.
Pressman, who referred to himself as "just a little Jewish guy from the Bronx," became a fixture of New York City. "A profund, matinee-idol anchorman he was not," Journalist Robert D. McFadden wrote about Pressman. Gabe was the short, rumpled, pushy guy from Channel 4 who appeared to be on the front, elbowing his way to the front and yelling his microphone in the face of a witness or a big shot, to generations of mayors, governors, and ordinary New Yorkers.
Pressman was the first television journalist to do live and on-scene coverage of events. Pressman went out on the street to interview New Yorkers for their reactions after President Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963; he was in a crowd of people listening to NBC Radio when he announced that Kennedy had died. Later that evening, he returned from a darkened Times Square and spoke with a New York City patrolman about the city's somber mood.
Pressman was co-anchor (with Bill Ryan) of New York's first early-evening half-hour newscast, the Pressman-Ryan Report, born out of a devastating 1963 New York City newspaper strike. He anchored NBC News, WNBC-TV, and WNBC-AM radio in the New York area. He was sent by the network to cover many historical events, including the 1956 sinking of the Andrea Doria, Elvis Presley's Army stint in Brooklyn, one-on-one interviews with Marilyn Monroe, Fidel Castro, the assassination of Malcolm X, assassination of John Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., a reporter for NBC News in upstate New York, where he covered the assassination of John Kennedy,
Since being arrested after being arrested, a pressman has been credited with assisting with the establishment of the "perp walk" in New York City, which was born in the 1970s. "We need pictures to tell your stories," Morgenthau recalled, "We need pictures to record your cases," and "You're breaking my heart."
His fame as an intrepid reporter is the subject of a delicate lampoon on a recording of Bob and Ray ("The Two and Only," Columbia Records, 1970). actor J.D. played a reporter branded "Gabe Pressman" on the television. In Billy Crystal's HBO film 61*, Cullum appears in a way that could have a negative affect on Roger Maris' baseball exploits (played by Barry Pepper).
He served as president of the New York Press Club from 1997 to 2000, and as the head of the organization, he campaigned for the interests of New York's journalists, both print and online.
Pressman worked part-time at WNBC, mainly as a blog writer for New York City news on the station's website, and he was on Twitter until his death in June 2017. In 2014, he said it was an arthritic knee that prevented him from chasing stories like he used to. He covered the 255th annual Saint Patrick's Day Parade in New York, which is reportedly the last time a Pressman was on air.