Harsch, Joseph Close

Harsch, Joseph Close
▪ 1999

      American newspaper and broadcast journalist who, during his 60-year career with The Christian Science Monitor, was noted for his presence at many of the period's most historic events and for his vivid reporting of those events; Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II made him an honorary C.B.E. in 1965 (b. May 25, 1905, Toledo, Ohio—d. June 3, 1998, Jamestown, R.I.).

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