The black and white prints of RFE/RL were donated to OSA by the Hoover Institute, California in year 2015. The images are duplicates of those held at Hoover. The originals, and most probably the negatives are with the donor as well. OSA only received the paper prints with captions, and digitized the entire collection in year 2018.
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Biography of Louis Halasz
Radio Free Europe Correspondent to the United Nations
Louis Halasz is Radio Free Europe's correspondent to the United Nations. His United Nations reports concerning the East European countries are sent by wire to Radio Free Europe's studios in Munich, Germany for broadcast to Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria.
Although he is now an American citizen, Mr. Halasz was born in Hungary and educated at the University of Debrecen where he received his Doctorate in Law and Economics in 1938. He was employed as a journalist with the Hungarian News Agency until the last months of the German occupation of Hungary when he was forced to go into hiding because of his activities with the anti-Nazi underground. Following the war in 1945, Mr. Halasz became an editor of "A Holnap" ("The Tomorrow"), daily newspaper of the Freedom Party, an opposition party to the Communists. When the paper was suppressed by the Communists, Mr. Halasz, under threat of arrest, escaped in May 1948 from the country with his wife, Margaret.
He came to the United States in 1951 when he joined the staff of Radio Free Europe, first as a writer for Radio Free Europe's Hungarian Desk, and, for the past three years as a staff member of Radio Free Europe's Central Newsroom. He has made several speaking tours for the Crusade for Freedom, which supports Radio Free Europe with a fund-raising drive of the American people.