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Irv Drasnin was born in Charleston, West Virginia, on March 18, 1934, a son of immigrants: his father, Joseph, a U.S. Treasury Agent, was from Tsarist Russia, as was his mother, Clara Aaron. The family moved to Los Angeles when he was four years old.
As part of their generous gift to establish the UCLA Drasnin Communication Archive, Irv and Xiaoyan Drasnin provided UCLA with copies of dozens of Irv’s documentaries and an extensive array of supporting background material (raw footage, scripts, edits, etc.), which will be digitized and hosted on this page in the future.
Aug 2, 2024 · That will soon change, thanks to a $2.3 million pledge by alumnus Irv Drasnin, a broadcast journalist and documentarian, and his wife, Xiaoyan Zhao Drasnin, a communication researcher and writer.
- Jonathan Riggs
Jul 9, 2012 · Irv Drasnin, a China expert who worked at CBS with Edward Murrow and Charles Kuralt, interviewed Rittenberg off screen, making him appear larger than life.
The story of an American in Mao’s China who joined the Chinese Communist Party and assumed an unprecedented role for a foreigner in Chinese politics, achieving prominence in the Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s, until he crossed paths with Mao’s wife and ended up in Beijing’s Prison #1 for ten years.
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For the CBS Evening News his assignments covered a wide range of major news events of the 1960's including the civil rights movement. He was the producer of CBS News coverage in Selma, Alabama (March, 1965).
