Dick Carlson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Dick Carlson

American journalist and diplomat

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1941

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: diplomat, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Richard Warner Carlson (born Richard Boynton; February 2, 1941) is a former American journalist, who was director of the Voice of America during the last six years of the Cold War.
At the same time, he led Radio Marti broadcasting to Cuba, and was director of the U.S.
Information Agency and the USIA Documentary Film Service.
Carlson has been a newspaper and wire service reporter, a magazine writer, a TV and radio correspondent, a documentary filmmaker, and is the father of conservative pundit Tucker Carlson.