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'Running Toward the Fire': UNL film tells story of Nebraska-born war reporter's D-Day jump into Normandy
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'Running Toward the Fire': UNL film tells story of Nebraska-born war reporter's D-Day jump into Normandy
- Steve Liewer Omaha World-Herald
- May 30, 2024
- May 30, 2024
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Robert Reuben dozed fitfully alongside the soldiers cramped in the cabin of the C-47 Army transport as it droned over the English Channel towards occupied France.
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As a Reuters war correspondent, Robert Reuben jumped into Normandy with the 101st Airborne Division before dawn on D-Day and spent nearly six months at the front chronicling the Normandy campaign, the liberation of Paris, and the battles for Liege and Aachen. His story is told in a new documentary, "Running Towards the Fire," produced by UNL journalism professor Barney McCoy.
COURTESY BARNEY MCCOY, UNL
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Reuters war correspondent Robert Reuben, an Omaha native, stands in front of a French château in Normandy.
COURTESY BARNEY MCCOY, UNL
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In 1952, Robert Reuben quit journalism to open the Pen & Quill restaurant and nightclub in Manhattan Beach, California, near Los Angeles International Airport. The Omaha native owned it until his death from cancer, in 1964, at age 45.
JOAN SCHWARTZ
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As a Reuters war correspondent, Robert Reuben jumped into Normandy with the 101st Airborne Division before dawn on D-Day and spent nearly six months at the front chronicling the Normandy campaign, the liberation of Paris, and the battles for Liege and Aachen. His story is told in a new documentary, "Running Towards the Fire," produced by UNL journalism professor Barney McCoy.
- COURTESY BARNEY MCCOY, UNL
Reuters war correspondent Robert Reuben, an Omaha native, stands in front of a French château in Normandy.
- COURTESY BARNEY MCCOY, UNL
In 1952, Robert Reuben quit journalism to open the Pen & Quill restaurant and nightclub in Manhattan Beach, California, near Los Angeles International Airport. The Omaha native owned it until his death from cancer, in 1964, at age 45.
- JOAN SCHWARTZ
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