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Ray Scherer, White House correspondent for NBC News during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations was one of the first reporters to do television reports to the nation from inside the White House grounds.
A TV pioneer, Mr. Scherer is the co-author with Robert J. Donovan, another ex-White house reporter, of the new book, “Unsilent Revolution: Television News and Public Life.” The book illuminates the impact of television news on various facets of American life, among them politics, civil rights, the space program, the rise and fall of Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Vietnam and the other milestones of our times.
During his years with NBC he reported on numerous major stories. He rode back to Missouri with Harry Truman when the man from Independence left the White House, sat up all night reporting from Hyannis the night Kennedy narrowly won the presidency, stayed on the air for hours on end when Ike had his heart attack, and spent several days touring the Pedernales River with Lyndon Johnson while filming the NBC documentary, “LBJ, The Hill Country.”
In 1968 Mr. Scherer was dispatched to Europe as NBC’s London correspondent and spent four years covering news from the capitals of Europe for radio and television. He served from 1975 to 1986 as vice president in Washington for RCA.
Mr. Scherer joined NBC covering the White House in 1947 after beginning his reporting
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