Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker. He authored more than fifty non-fiction books, mostly travel narratives and popular biographies of explorers and military men. Between 1930 and the mid-1950s, Thomas appeared regularly on radio and television as a travel and news commentator, and was a narrator of Movietone newsreels shown in cinemas. Thomas was especially known for the writings and documentary films that turned

T. E. Lawrence Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the First W ...

(Lawrence of Arabia) into an international celebrity. Later in his career, Thomas was involved in promoting the

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widescreen system. In 1954, he led a group of New York City-based investors to buy majority control of Hudson Valley Broadcasting, which, in 1957, became Capital Cities Television Corporation.

Early life

Thomas was born in Woodington, Ohio, to Harry and Harriet (

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Wagoner) Thomas. His father was a doctor, his mother a teacher. In 1900, the family moved to the mining town of

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. Thomas worked there as a gold miner, a cook, and a reporter on the newspaper. In 1911, Thomas graduated from Victor High School where one of his teachers was Mabel Barbee Lee. The following year, he graduated from

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with a bachelor of science degree. The next year, he received both a B.A. and an M.A. from the

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and began work for the ''Chicago Journal'', writing for it until 1914. Thomas also was on the faculty of

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(now part of

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), where he taught oratory from 1912 to 1914. He then went to

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where he studied for a master's at

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(he received the degree in 1916) and again taught oratory at the university.

Career

Thomas became interested in travel as a young man, and his skills for self-promotion helped him to persuade railroads to give him free passage in exchange for articles extolling rail travel. When he visited

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in 1914, he took a movie camera with him and became one of the first to use the new medium to make travelogues. After the United States entered

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, Thomas went to Europe to report on the conflict and from there to

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and

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, where he met T.E. Lawrence, who was acting as British liaison to the local leaders of the

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against the

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Lawrence of Arabia

Thomas shot dramatic footage of Lawrence in Arab dress, then returned to America and began giving public lectures in 1919 on the war in Palestine, "supported by moving pictures of veiled women, Arabs in their picturesque robes, camels and dashing Bedouin cavalry." His lectures were very popular and audiences large. He agreed to take the lecture to Britain, but only "if asked by the King and given Drury Lane or Covent Garden" as a lecture venue. His conditions were met, and he opened a series at Covent Garden on August 14, 1919. "And so followed a series of some hundreds of lecture–film shows, attended by the highest in the land". In 1924, Thomas published the memoir ''With Lawrence in Arabia.'' Thomas genuinely admired Lawrence and continued to defend him against later attacks on Lawrence's reputation. Lawrence's brother Arnold allowed Thomas to contribute to ''T.E. Lawrence by his Friends'' (1937), a collection of essays and reminiscences published after Lawrence's death. In the 1962 film '' Lawrence of Arabia'', a fictionalized version of Thomas called Jackson Bentley was portrayed by Arthur Kennedy. (Kennedy was in his late-forties when the film was made, although Thomas had been in his mid-twenties at the time of the events.)

Narration and Cinerama

Thomas was a magazine editor during the 1920s, but he never lost his fascination with the movies. He narrated

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's twice weekly Movietone newsreels until 1952, and provided the

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for numerous short subject film series, including ''Lowell Thomas' Magic Carpet of Movietone'' and ''Going Places with Lowell Thomas''. Movietone_title_card

Thomas went into business with

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and

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to exploit

, a film exhibition format using three projectors and an enormous curved screen with seven-channel surround sound. He narrated the Cinerama documentaries ''

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'' (1952) and '' Seven Wonders of the World'' (1956), and both produced and narrated '' Search for Paradise'' (1957).

Radio commentator and newscaster

Thomas was first heard on radio delivering talks about his travels in 1929 and 1930: for example, he spoke on the NBC Radio Network in late July 1930 about his trip to

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. Then, in late September 1930, he took over as the host of the Sunday evening ''Literary Digest'' program, replacing the previous host,

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. On the program, he told stories of his travels. The show was fifteen-minutes long, and heard on the NBC Network. Thomas soon changed the focus of the program from his own travels to interesting stories about other people. By October 1930, he was including more news stories. It was at this point that the program, which was now on six days a week, moved to the CBS Radio network. After two years, he switched back to the NBC Radio network but returned to CBS in 1947. He was not an employee of either NBC or CBS, contrary to today's practices, but was employed by the broadcast's sponsor

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. He returned to CBS to take advantage of lower capital-gains tax rates, establishing an independent company to produce the broadcast which he sold to CBS, like coverage of the Coronation Ice Show in Lake Placid, New York in 1934. He hosted the first television news broadcast in 1939 and the first regularly scheduled television news broadcast beginning on February 21, 1940, over W2XBS (now

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) New York, which was a camera simulcast of his radio broadcast. Franklin D

In the summer of 1940, Thomas anchored a television broadcast of the

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, the first live telecast of a political convention, which was fed from Philadelphia to W2XBS and on to W2XB Schenectady (now

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). He was not actually in Philadelphia but was anchoring the broadcast from a New York studio and merely identifying speakers who addressed the convention to the few thousand people who had television sets in those three cities. In April 1945, Thomas flew in a normally single-person

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over Berlin while it was being attacked by the Soviet Union, reporting live via radio. In 1953, Thomas was featured in ''

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'' that was broadcast simultaneously on the NBC and CBS television networks. The program was viewed by 60 million persons. Thomas presented a tribute to the classic days of radio. His persistent debt problems were remedied by Thomas' manager/investing partner, Frank Smith who, in 1954, became the President of co-owned Hudson Valley Broadcasting Company, which, in 1957, became Capital Cities Television Corporation. Lowell Thomas Magic Dials

The television news simulcast was a short-lived venture for Thomas, as he favored radio. It was over radio that he presented and commented upon the news for four decades until his retirement in 1976, the longest radio career of anyone in his day, since surpassed by

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. His signature sign-on was "Good evening, everybody" and his sign-off was "So long, until tomorrow," phrases that he used as titles for his two volumes of memoirs.

Personal life

Thomas' wife Frances often traveled with him. She died in 1975, and he married Marianna Munn in 1977. They embarked on a honeymoon trip that took him to many of his favorite old destinations. Thomas died at his home in Pawling, New York in 1981. He is buried in Christ Church Cemetery. Marianna died in Dayton, Ohio on January 28, 2010.

Legacy and honors

In 1945, Thomas received the Alfred I. duPont Award. In 1971, Thomas received the Golden Plate Award of the

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, and was honored at the 1973

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. In 1976, President

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awarded him the

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. He has two stars on the

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. Thomas was inducted into many Halls of Fame: * 1966 National Ski Hall of Fame * 1977

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* 1978

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* 1989

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* 1992

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* 2018 Laurentian Ski Hall of Fame. Named after him are the Thomas Mountains in

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, a museum in

, as well as awards from a number of organizations: 1947 Overseas Press Club of America, 1980

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, 1984 Society of American Travel Writers Foundation, and 2012 Broadcast Pioneers of Colorado. The communications building at

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in Poughkeepsie, New York is named for Thomas, after he received an honorary degree from the college in 1981. The Lowell Thomas Archives are housed as part of the university library.

Works

Bibliography

*''With Lawrence in Arabia'', 1924 *''The First World Flight'', 1925 *''Beyond

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'', 1925 *
Count Luckner, the Sea Devil
', 1927 *''European Skyways'', 1927 *''The Boy's Life of Colonel Lawrence'', 1927 *''Adventures in

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for Boys'', 1928 *''Raiders of the Deep'', 1928 *''The Sea Devil's Fo'c'sle'', 1929 *''Woodfill of the Regulars'', 1929 *''The Hero of Vincennes: the Story of

George Rogers Clark George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 – February 13, 1818) was an American military officer and surveyor from Virginia who became the highest-ranking Patriot (American Revolution), Patriot military officer on the American frontier, nort ...

'', 1929 *''The Wreck of the Dumaru'', 1930 *'' Lauterbach of the China Sea'', 1930 *''

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--Land of the Black Pagoda'', 1930 *''Rolling Stone: The Life and Adventures of Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore'', 1931 *''Tall Stories'', 1931 *''Kabluk of the

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'', 1932 *''This Side of Hell'', 1932 *''Old Gimlet Eye: The Adventures of General

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'', 1933 *'' Born to Raise Hell'', 1933 *''The Untold Story of Exploration'', 1935 *''Fan Mail'', 1935 *''A Trip to

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With Bobby and Betty'', 1936 *''Men of Danger'', 1936 *''

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Stories and a Life of Kipling'', 1936 *''Seeing

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With Lowell Thomas'', 1936 *''Seeing

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With Lowell Thomas'', 1937 *''Seeing

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With Lowell Thomas'', 1937 *''Adventures Among the Immortals'', 1937 *''Hungry Waters'', 1937 *''Wings Over

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'', 1937 *''Magic Dials'', 1939 *''In

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We'll Find It'', 1939 *''Soft Ball! So What?'', 1940 *''How To Keep Mentally Fit'', 1940 *''Stand Fast for Freedom'', 1940 *''Pageant of Adventure'', 1940 *''Pageant of Life'', 1941 *''Pageant of Romance'', 1943 *''These Men Shall Never Die'', 1943 *''Out of this World: Across the Himalayas to Tibet'' (1951) *''Back to

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'', 1951 *''Great True Adventures'', 1955 *''The Story of the New York Thruway'', 1955 *'' Seven Wonders of the World'', 1956 *''History As You Heard It'' 1957 *''The Story of the

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'', 1957 *''The Vital Spark'', 1959 *''Sir

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, A Biography'', 1961 *''More Great True Adventures'', 1963 *''Book of the High

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'', 1964 () *''Famous First Flights That Changed History'', 1968 () *''

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Jack'', 1971 () *'' Doolittle: A Biography'', 1976 () *''Good Evening Everybody: From Cripple Creek to

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'', 1976; subtitled on cover "An Autobiography by Lowell Thomas" () *''So Long Until Tomorrow'', 1977 ()

Filmography

Director

* ''With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia'' (1918) * ''Out of This World'' (1952) * ''High Adventure with Lowell Thomas'' (1957–59)

Narrator

The following is a selection of films with Thomas as host or narrator. Magic_Carpet_of_Movietone_-_1932_promo

* '' Africa Speaks'' (1930) * ''Lowell Thomas Driftin' Around'' (1931–32) * '' The Blonde Captive'' (1931) * ''

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'' (1932–52) * ''The Throne of the Gods'' (1933) * '' Mussolini Speaks'' (1933) * ''Lowell Thomas' Magic Carpet of Movietone'' (1933–43) * ''Going Places with Lowell Thomas'' (1934–38) * '' Schlitz on Mt. Washington'' (1937) * ''Killers of the Sea'' (1937) * '' Titans of the Deep'' (1938) * ''

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'' (1940) * ''

This is Cinerama ''This Is Cinerama'' is a 1952 American documentary film directed by Mike Todd, Michael Todd Jr., Walter A. Thompson and Fred Rickey and starring Lowell Thomas.

'' (1952) * '' Seven wonders of the world'' (1956) * '' Search for Paradise'' (1957) * ''Winter Olympics'' (1960) * ''World's Fair report with Lowell Thomas'' (1963) * ''The Best of Cinerama'' (1963) * ''The Great Shikar'' (1970) * ''Lowell Thomas Remembers'' (1975)Lowell Thomas Remembers
at University of South Carolina library

Subject

The following is a list of films with Thomas as the Subject. * ''Sports Parade: King Salmon'' (1941) * '' The Big Picture: Challenge of Ideas'' (episode 512) * ''Yesterday's witness: a tribute to the American newsreel'' (1977) * ''Eulogy, Lowell Thomas'' (1981) * ''Lowell Thomas: Man About the World'' (2000) * ''Lowell Thomas: American storyteller'' (2008) * ''The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Rise of Broadcast Journalism'' (2019)

References

;Sources * Bowen, Norman (ed) (1968) ''The Stranger Everyone Knows'' Doubleday * Hamilton, John Maxwell (2011) ''Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting'' LSU Press pg 248

External links

*
''With Lawrence in Arabia''
at

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*
Memories of Lowell Thomas
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Lowell Thomas interview
at American Heritage
"Creating History: Lowell Thomas and Lawrence of Arabia" online history exhibit
at Clio Visualizing History.
An Evening with Lowell Thomas
(August 13, 1981), on the

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-channel of Pikes Peak Library District. {{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas, Lowell 1892 births 1981 deaths American broadcast news analysts 20th-century American businesspeople American male journalists American radio journalists American travel writers Peabody Award winners People from Darke County, Ohio Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients University of Denver alumni Princeton University alumni Valparaiso University alumni T. E. Lawrence Fellows of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society