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Apr 26, 2003 · Barney Oldfield. Born 1909-01-01 Tecumseh, NE (USA) Died 2003-04-26. Los Angeles, CA (USA) Buried. North Platte, NE (USA) Fort McPherson Military Cemetery. Oldfield was a famous publicist, newspaper reporter and one time sports stringer for the Lincoln Star newspaper.
Dec 18, 2020 · Marc Lancaster. Dec 18, 2020. Share. Barney Oldfield lived a remarkable life by any measure, as a guy from Tecumseh, Nebraska who ended up handling publicity for Hollywood stars like Elizabeth Taylor, Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan, and becoming a close confidant of heavyweight champion George Foreman. In addition to rubbing shoulders with ...
Apr 25, 2019 · The program airs at 8 p.m. April 25 and 10 p.m. April 29. As the 75th anniversary of D-Day approaches, the dramatic story of University of Nebraska journalism graduate and WWII press officer Barney Oldfield will be highlighted in the April 25 and April 29 episode of “Nebraska Stories” on NET.
A look back at the war correspondents recruited by Nebraskan and US Army press officer Barney Oldfield, including Omaha’s Bob Reuben, a Reuters news correspondent. Reuben was the first journalist to land in Normandy and the first correspondent to file a news report with a Normandy dateline, sent by carrier pigeon to Barney Oldfield 150 miles ...
13 hours ago · He first learned about Reuben through his research on Col. Barney Oldfield, another Nebraskan. ... Several of Reuben’s relatives traveled to Nebraska last month for an advance screening of the ...
It was the 4-ton Isted Lion, a statue the Germans had held as war booty for 80 years. Seventy-five years ago, Colonel Barney Oldfield, a Nebraska-born U.S. Army public affairs officer,...
Apr 28, 2003 · HOLLYWOOD — Barney Oldfield, Variety’s first Nebraska correspondent, Hollywood press agent and retired Air Force colonel, died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from cirrhosis of the...
