Journalist, Broadcaster, and Author. A world traveler and one of the 20th century's preeminent journalists, he is remembered for introducing the legendary Lawrence of Arabia to the world. His career spanned seven decades and touched nearly all disciplines of life. His father was a doctor and his mother taught school. In 1900 he moved with his family to Victor, Colorado where he graduated from high school in 1910. The following year he attended Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana and graduated with bachelor's degrees in science and education. In 1912 he received Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts Degrees from the University of Denver in Colorado and began his journalism career with the Chicago Journal. While there, he taught oratory at the Chicago-Kent College of Law (now part of Illinois Institute of Technology). In 1915 he went to New Jersey where he attended Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey and received a master's degree in 1916 and taught oratory there. After visiting Alaska, he came up with the idea of travelogue about faraway locations. Following the US entry into World War I, he was chosen as part of an official party to document, in writing and on film, a complete history of the conflict, so as to encourage the American public to support it. After securing financing from commercial sources, he went to the Western Front but found nothing inspiring, and then travelled to Italy, where he learned of British Field Marshall Edmund Allenby's campaign against the Ottoman Empire in Palestine. Traveling to Jerusalem, he met T.E. Lawrence, a captain in the British Army, who would later be known as the notable Lawrence of Arabia. He shot dramatic footage of Lawrence in action and following the end of World War I, he went on a nationwide tour, narrating his film "With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia", and they both would become well renowned. During the 1920s he worked as a magazine editor but maintained his interest in movies, narrating 20th Century Fox's Movietone newsreels until 1952. In 1930 he became a broadcaster with CBS Radio, switched to NBC Radio in 1932, but returned to CBS Radio in 1947, remaining there until his retirement in 1976. His signature sign-on was "Good evening, everybody" and his sign-off was "So long, until tomorrow". He achieved a number of firsts in broadcasting, including the first hosted television news broadcast (1939), the first regularly scheduled televised news broadcast (1940), and the first live telecast of a political convention, the 1940 Republican National Convention. From 1955 until 1958 he hosted the CBS television show "High Adventure," a series of travelogue specials on remote world locations and the 1970s PBS television series "Lowell Thomas Remembers" that recapped major news events from 1919 until 1975. A prolific writer, he authored numerous books and memoirs on his travels and historical events, including "With Lawrence in Arabia" (1924), "Beyond Khyber Pass" (1925), "Born to Raise Hell" (1935), "Seven Wonders of the World" (1956), "Doolittle: A Biography" (1976), and "So Long Until Tomorrow" (1977). In 1976 President Gerald Ford awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1989 he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. He died from a heart attack at the age of 89. In films, he was fictionalized as the character 'Jackson Bentley', played by actor Arthur Kennedy, in the 1962 film "Lawrence of Arabia" and was also portrayed in its "sequel" by actor Adam Henderson in "A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia" (1990). He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to radio and films. The Lowell Thomas Award, given annually by the Explorers Club to those who distinguished themselves in the field of exploration, is named in his honor.