Lowell Thomas

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American journalist, news analyst and businessman (1892-1981)

United States JournalistsLived 1892 to 1981 · aged 89

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Photos 9

Thomas's boyhood home in Victor, Colorado

Thomas in Arabia 1918

Thomas' first photo of Lawrence, taken in Jerusalem as they were introduced in the office of the Military Governor, February 28, 1918

Movietone Title Card

Thomas with FDR in 1936

Thomas in 1939

Thomas with his second wife Marianna Munn

Awards 7

1992National Aviation Hall of Fame

1980James Madison Medal

1976Presidential Medal of Freedom

1973Peabody Awards

1970Golden Plate Award

Horatio Alger Award

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

In their orbit 1

ChildLowell Thomas Jr.

Connected to Lowell 6

Susan OliverAlso in Amelia Earhart (1976)

Merian C. CooperAlso in This Is Cinerama (1952)

Lance KerwinAlso in Amelia Earhart (1976)

Malcolm ForbesAlso in The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed (1977)

Tay GarnettAlso in The Best of Cinerama (1963)

Ernest B. SchoedsackAlso in This Is Cinerama (1952)

About this person

Lowell Jackson Thomas was an American writer, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker, known as a world traveler. He authored more than fifty non-fiction books, mostly travel narratives and popular biographies of explorers and military men. Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, Thomas appeared regularly on radio and occasionally on television as a travel and news commentator. Until the 1950s, he was a narrator of Movietone newsreels shown in cinemas.

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