Birth Name:

Shirer, William Lawrence

Male

Birth Date:

Tue, Feb 23, 1904

Time of Birth:

02:55 AM

Place of Birth:

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Age:

120

Zodiac Sign:

Pisces

Astrology Data:

Sun

3°

Pis

20'

Moon

20°

Tau

10'

Asc

25°

Sag

33'

MC

19°

Lib

26'

About William L. Shirer

William Lawrence Shirer (/ˈʃaɪrər/; February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993) was an American journalist and war correspondent. He wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany that has been read by many and cited in scholarly works for more than 50 years. Originally a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the International News Service, Shirer was the first reporter hired by Edward R. Murrow for what became a CBS radio team of journalists known as "Murrow's Boys". He became known for his broadcasts from Berlin, from the rise of the Nazi dictatorship through the first year of World War II (1940). With Murrow, he organized the first broadcast world news roundup, a format still followed by news broadcasts.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• William Shirer obituary

• More on William Shirer

• 1984 audio interview of William Shirer, RealAudio at Wired for Books (archived 2012)

• American Heritage article from 1984

• William L. Shirer Papers at Stewart Memorial Library, Coe College

• William L. Shirer on IMDb

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for William L. Shirer: Sun 3 Pisces, Moon 20 Taurus, Mercury 10 Aquarius, Venus 29 Capricorn, Mars 27 Pisces, Jupiter 28 Pisces, Saturn 14 Aquarius, Uranus 29 Sagittarius, Neptune 3 Cancer, Pluto 18 Gemini, Asc 25 Sagittarius, Mc 19 Libra, Sun Trine Neptune, Moon Quincunx Midheaven, Mercury Conjunct Saturn, Sun Sesquiquadrate Midheaven, Moon Semi Square Neptune, Moon Semi Sextile Pluto, Mercury Semi Square Mars, Mercury Semi Square Ascendant, Venus Sextile Mars, Venus Sextile Jupiter, Venus Semi Sextile Uranus, Mars Conjunct Jupiter, Mars Semi Square Saturn, Mars Square Uranus, Mars Square Ascendant, Jupiter Semi Square Saturn, Jupiter Square Uranus, Jupiter Square Neptune, Jupiter Square Ascendant, Saturn Semi Square Uranus, Saturn Trine Pluto, Uranus Opposition Neptune, Uranus Conjunct Ascendant, Pluto Trine Midheaven

Categories related to William L. Shirer: Massachusetts, American radio reporters and correspondents, American male journalists, February 23 births, Writers from Chicago, National Book Award winners, 20th-century American historians, George Polk Award recipients, Historians from Massachusetts, CBS News people, 1993 deaths, Historians of World War II, 1904 births, Historians of Nazism, Peabody Award winners, American war correspondents, Coe College alumni, People from Lenox, Viennese interwar correspondents

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