Mario biasetti biography

Mario Biasetti, a veteran television journalist for CBS News and Fox who covered wars, revolutions and papal trips around the world for over 60 years, has died.
Born in the Abruzzo region of Italy in 1926, Mario moved to Boston as a young boy not long before World War II broke out.
Mario Biasetti is the Dean of the Television Journalists in Rome.

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PART V – MARIO’S WOMEN

Dear Blog Readers, some of you have been asking about the women in Mario’s life. Indeed, if you have read the past five posts the only woman to make a cameo in that macho world of Network TV News is Jackie Kennedy. Today I will tell you about the two behind-the-scene heroines who made Mario’s career possible, his Mamma and his wife, and about two right-in-the-thick-of-it women leaders he interviewed.

Mario’s Mamma, Rosa Barcella, was born in the Abruzzo region of Italy in 1891. She lived with her husband and three children in the town of Cocullo. Her husband emigrated to the US, followed by their first son. Eventually, beating a deadline on a fascist law that prevented males over 12 years of age from leaving the country, Rosa and Mario took a ship to the US landing in New York on Christmas Eve, 1939.

The arrival to the New World was an extraordinary event for Rosa. The hustle and bustle in New York, the traffic, the skyscrapers, the window displays, the noise. Mario saiys it was so different from anything she had ever s

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Vatican City, Nov 17, 2017 / 03:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Last week Albino Luciani, better known by his papal name, John Paul I, took the next step on the path to sainthood. Yet apart from the fame garnered by various theories that sprouted due to the enigmatic nature of his death, for many little is known of his saintly life and brief pontificate.

Born Oct. 17, 1912, in Italy’s northern Veneto region, Albino Luciani, known also as “the smiling Pope,” was elected Bishop of Rome Aug. 26, 1978. He made history when he became the first Pope to take a double name, after his two immediate predecessors, St. John XXIII and Bl. Paul VI.

He sent shock waves around the world when he died unexpectedly just 33 days later, making his one of the shortest pontificates in the history of the Church.

In addition to the novelty of his name and the surprise of his death, Luciani was also the first Pope born in the 20th century, and is also the most recent Italian-born Bishop of Rome.

Yet behind all the novelty of the month before his death and mystery of those that ensued, John

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ROME – Mario Biasetti, a veteran television journalist for CBS News and Fox who covered wars, revolutions and papal trips around the world for over 60 years, has died at age 96, his family said.

Biasetti, the last living member of the Foreign Press Association who had fought in the Second World War, (as a teenage American infantry soldier) only finally retired from Fox News at the end of March this year, saying he wanted to write his memoirs.

As a cameraman for CBS he was always to be seen in hotspots such as the TWA hijacking in Beirut, which began June 14, 1985.

In his last years he covered mainly Italy and the Vatican for Fox and was effectively the network’s Rome bureau chief.

A well-known figure at the bar of the Foreign Press Club in Humility Street and its previous historic premises at the Via della Mercede, Mario remained in great shape despite his years, which he attributed to working in the vineyard at his property in the Umbrian countryside near Todi, as well as his unquenchable curiosity for following the news.

He liked to confide to his friends tha