Bob Siegrist

              1950

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BOB SIEGRIST
Brilliant News Analyst with the Nationally-Recognized News Division of Radio Station WGN and the Network of the Mutual Broadcasting System … A Dynamic and Forceful Speaker.


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BOB SIEGRIST Popular Radio Newscaster and Speaker
Born to the chaos which followed World War I, schooled in the Depression of the 1930's matured in World War II, BOB SIEGRIST has lost none of his deeprooted faith in God, the United States of America and its incomparable system of freedom and opportunity which he calls personal enterprise.

In fact, Siegrist himself is a rising example of that very system.  At just 31, he is in his fourth year as a news analyst with the nationally-recognized News Division of Radio Station WGN, Chicago and the network of the Mutual Broadcasting System, the world's largest broadcasting chain.

As such, BOB SIEGRIST is gaining nation-wide recognition as one of the hardest-hitting most forthright young men in his complex profession.  On the ironical side, it is interesting to note that he was born in Lansing, Michigan, in 1919; the same year as the birth of the Communist party, which had its first official breath of life in the same Chicago from which the violently anti-communist Siegrist now holds forth daily in his never-ceasing efforts to warn and inform of its evils and effects.  Says he of this irony, We were born in absolute opposition to each other.

Bob Siegrist served for 42 months as an Army enlisted man.  He so distinguished himself in the Army's Public Relations activities and in its Troop Orientation program that the door to his continuation professionally in civilian life was wide open upon his discharge from service February 1, 1946.  This recognition came through his creation and editorship of a camp newspaper at Camp Skokie Valley, Glenview, Ill.; his handling of press and radio contacts for an Army war show; his establishing of the first Orientation program for troop information; his writings, announcing, and producing of many Army programs aired on all major Chicago stations; his daily radio programs in behalf of Percy Jones Hospital Center via WELL, Battle Creek, and a weekly program via WXYZ, Detroit, and the Michigan Radio Network.

The cornerstone of his belief is the value and power of free speech, free radio, and free press, and the resultant service which must at all times be rendered through honest reporting that the public at all times be informed: for as he stated on the first broadcast of his third year at WGN, As John wrote, 'The Truth shall make you free'.

He is an equally-strong advocate of constitutional government; believing in accordance with the original American concept, that there is nothing so wrong with our system that cannot be rectified through proper exercise of principles constitutionally provided as the founding fathers had intended—never through irresponsible borrowings from always-suspect foreign ideologies.

A native of Lansing, Bob spent many days watching the state legislature at work.  He was graduated from Lansing Eastern High School in 1936.  In his senior year he formed a dance band to further his education, which continued at Michigan State.  The band, however, quickly grew from a sideline to a full-time business, and one of the better-known organizations in this territory in those prewar days.

His first contact with radio came in 1937 on the Campus station, WKAR.  He wrote on the side for the college humor magazine, and served as columnist for the Lansing State Journal.  Recent articles by Bob Siegrist have been published in Partners, published by the National Labor-Management Foundation, and in the magazine of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

As a public speaker, he is considered by his audiences as packing a much harder punch in person than when heard on the radio or seen on television.  Here is a typical report:

Bob Siegrist was well received by the University Club of Waukegan.  As a speaker he is very forceful, concise and accurate.  The question and answer period was as intense and as long as the lecture itself.



LECTURE SUBJECTS

The World, America and You
Today's News for History
The News Today
Americanism vs. Communism
Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam — The Road to Korea