Karlton Jerome Rosholt (January 20, 1923 – April 4, 2008) was an American journalist and author. Background Rosholt was born in 1923 in Glasgow, Montana. His parents were Carl Lauritz Rosholt (1881–1952) and Ida Emilia Solem (1893–1926). He has one younger brother, Norman Tegnear Rosholt. Rosholt attended Luther College, but was interrupted by World War II. During the war, he served with the 95th Infantry Division. After the war, he was graduated from Luther with a degree in mathematics in 1948. During college, Rosholt twice won national forensic championships in extemporaneous speech, both times winning the college division and then representing the college division in the university division and winning it. Luther College later honored him with the first Oliver Eittreim Award for Excellence in Broadcast Media (1977) and a Distinguished Service Award (1998). Career As a journalist in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, Rosholt was the head writer for the radio personality Cedric Adams at WCCO. He also worked for the Associated Press in Minneapolis. In 1957, following the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union, Rosholt was the first American journalist to report that the successful launch signified a new age of space exploration, not just a defeat of the United States in the race to be first to enter space. For this report, Rosholt was awarded the Distinguished Journalist Award by Sigma Delta Chi (now known as the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award.) From 1960 to 1962, Rosholt represented Lutheran Film Associates in the distribution of the motion picture Question 7. In 1962, Rosholt started working for NBC News in Philadelphia at WRCV-TV. In 1964, he represented NBC for the News Election Service, supervising the collection of votes for NES in three states. In 1966, he transferred to New York City, writing for WNBC radio. Following his reports on the August 1967 riots in Newark, New Jersey, he was promoted to the Huntley-Brinkley Report. During the final years of the Huntley-Brinkley Report and during the period of time that David Brinkley was anchor of the NBC Nightly News, Rosholt was a field producer, notably covering the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, which won Emmys in every category of television news coverage. He also covered the U.S. - U.S.S.R. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), the Sadat-Begin Peace Talks, the William Calley trial, several Civil Rights demonstrations, anti-Vietnam War protests and national political conventions from 1964 to