Jesse Zousmer(1912-1966)
- Producer
Jesse Zousmer was the vice president and director of television news
for ABC at the time of his death in the crash of a Canadian Pacific
airliner at the Tokyo airport in 1966. He had been credited in his
three years with ABC with innovating the network's news division,
following a distinguished career at CBS. He had a long association with
Edward R. Murrow, first as news writer for the first six years of
Murrow's nightly radio newscast, and as a producer on "Hear It Now" and
its television successor, "See It Now." Zousmer, with John Aaron,
created and produced "Person to Person" for CBS, but left in a dispute
with the network in 1959. He then co-produced several news specials for
NBC before joining ABC in 1963.
