Frank Bourgholtzer graduated from Indiana University’s School of Journalism in 1940 and joined the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) as a writer in 1946. He was first assigned to the White House, where he covered the campaigns of Harry S. Truman in 1948 and Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. In 1953 Bourgholtzer was assigned to the Paris bureau as a foreign correspondent; he then worked for the bureaus in Paris, Bonn, Vienna, and Moscow. In 1969 he was reassigned to the Los Angeles bureau, from which he covered a mixture of California news and stories about the Soviet Union. He retired from NBC in 1986, but throughout the 1980s, he continued to report on daily life in the Soviet Union.
