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Schwartz, Tony

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Personal name headingSchwartz, Tony
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Variant(s)Schwartz, Anthony, 1923-2008
Birth date1923-08-19
Death date2008-06-15
Place of birthManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Place of deathManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Profession or occupationMedia consultants
Type of familymale
Found in1, 2, 3 and a zing, zing, zing.
WWW site for Tony Schwartz, viewed Mar. 7, 2005: (Tony Schwartz; b. in Manhattan in 1923, graduate of Peekskill High School (1941) and Pratt Institute (1944); media pioneer, audio documentarian; created and produced a weekly radio program of people and sounds of New York on WNYC; wrote a weekly column for Media Industry Newsletter; created more than 20,000 radio and television spots for products, political candidates, and non-profit public interest groups; Visiting Electronic professor at Harvard University's School of Public Health; author of The responsive chord (1973) and Media, the second god (1983))
New York times WWW site, June 17, 2008 (Tony Schwartz; b. Anthony Schwartz, Aug. 19, 1923, Manhattan; d. there Saturday [June 14, 2008], aged 84; self-taught, sought-after, and highly reclusive media consultant who helped create the "daisy ad" for Lyndon B. Johnson's presidential campaign)
Wikipedia, 10 May 2019 (Anthony Schwartz (August 19, 1923-June 15, 2008) was an American sound archivist, sound designer, pioneering media theorist, and advertising creator; known as the "wizard of sound"; perhaps best known for his role in creating the controversial Daisy television ad for the 1964 Lyndon Johnson campaign; born New York, New York, died New York, New York; earned a degree in graphic design from the Pratt Institute and worked as a civilian artist for the United States Navy during World War II; later earned honorary degrees from John Jay College, Emerson College, and Stonehill College)
Associated languageeng