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Adrian Cronauer is Conference Speaker!
A good friend of Film & History is Adrian Cronauer, a man whose "life" was captured in the Robin Williams/Barry Levinson film Good Morning, Vietnam (1987). Veteran, communications lawyer, POW/MIA expert, his varied career makes him the perfect keynote speaker for our conference on "War in Film, TV, and History."
Former U.S. Air Force sergeant Adrian Cronauer coauthored the original story for the major motion picture, Good Morning, Vietnam! In that film, Cronauer was portrayed-loosely-by Robin Williams whose performance was nominated for an Academy Award. A subsequent special program on National Public Radio about the role of military radio in Vietnam earned Cronauer a 1992 Ohio State Award and two 1991 Gold Medals from the New York Radio Festival.
He is a life member of the American Legion, Vietnam Veterans of America, the VFW and VietNow. He serves as a national officer of the Knights Templar, is an honorary Kentucky Colonel, and a member of the Australian Returned & Services League. Recently, he was awarded the Order of St. Maurice by the U.S. Infantry Reserve. He spends...