Paul White (listening on a phone line to the White House) inform Trout that the Administration itself announced the surrender. This allowed Trout to announce the news a few seconds before Attlee made the announcement in his radio speech. Trout then intoned: The Japanese have accepted our terms fully! That is the word we have just received (newsroom cheers) from the White House in Washington and (Trout chuckles) I didn't expect to hear a celebration here in our newsroom in New York, but you can hear one going on behind me. We switched to London, I don't know what happened, I'm not even sure whether you heard the first words of Prime Minister Attlee or not. I couldn't hear anything in our speaker here, with the confusion. Suddenly we got the word from our private telephone wire from the White House in Washington. The Japanese have accepted FULLY the surrender terms of the United Nations. THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is the end of the Second World War! It is not, of course, the official V-J day, but the United Nations, on land, on sea, on air, to the four corners of the earth and the seven seas, are united and are victorious! Personal life For the last twenty years of his life, Trout and his wife lived in Madrid and New York City, where they kept a West Side apartment. He died at age 91 on November 14, 2000 in the Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan; there were no immediate survivors. His wife, the former Catherine "Kit" Crane, whom he married in 1938, had died in 1994. They had no children. Kit was "a significant partner in his career, serving as his personal manager, providing him with research for his broadcasts, and critiquing his on-air performances"; together, they maintained a large, systematically organized collection of his papers, correspondence, press clippings, photographs, and recordings, which was bequeathed to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. References External links - a four-hour interview recorded on June 21, 1999 Robert Trout exhibit at University of Texas at Austin Trout discusses the Farewell to Studio Nine special, including a recording of his two versions of the end of World War II 1909 births 2000 deaths American radio journalists American television journalists CBS News people Television anchors from New York City Peabody Award winners American male journalists