John Chancellor

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John William Chancellor (1927–1996), an American journalist and who spent the majority of his time with NBC News, was born in 1927.

He is regarded as a pioneer in television news.

He worked as anchor of NBC Nightly News from 1970 to 1982 and then went on to do editorials and commentaries for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw until 1993.

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Early career

Chancellor May grew up in Chicago, Illinois, left high school, worked odd jobs, and joined the Army, serving in a public relations unit during World War II. He attended the University of Illinois Navy Pier campus, completing the last two years of instruction at the University of Illinois in Urbana–Champaign, 1949. He began working as a copy boy for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1947 and then moved to Chicago to cover national television news, the Huntley-Brinkley Report, NBC's evening newscast.

When working on The Huntley-Brinkley Report, the Chancellor addressed topics of national interest.

The Chancellor covered the 1957 merger of the Little Rock Central High School, where a teenage Black girl, Elizabeth Eckford, wanted to attend an integrated academy. The Chancellor's coverage brought the world the white crowd that surrounded her. Segregationists followed him around town after the Chancellor began to cover the Little Rock story, growing impatient. The Chancellor did not run for office. Despite the enraged crowds around him, he kept reporting.

The Chancellor spent a long time as a foreign correspondent in Europe, with posts in Vienna, London, Moscow, and Brussels (NATO Headquarters).

Chancellor Dave Garroway was fired by NBC's Today show in July 1961, a position he held for fourteen months. The Chancellor asked for, and was granted, a freedom from his show responsibilities in the summer of 1962, but was not familiar with Today's soft news focus. He left the program in September and took over as NBC News' political reporter. He, Frank McGee, Edwin Newman, and Sander Vanocur formed a team that covered the national political conventions in the 1960s so well that industry observers referred to them as the "Four Horsemen."

He was arrested while refusing to cede his spot on the floor to "Goldwater Girls," supporters of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater at the 1964 Republican National Convention. When security came to arrest him, he was coerced to sign off: "I've been promised release, ladies and gentlemen," my office said. This is John Chancellor John Chancellor, who is also in jail." He became the head of the Voice of America in 1965, at the behest of President Lyndon Johnson, a position he held until 1967.

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