| Jack O'Brian | |
| Birthname: | John Dennis Patrick O'Brian |
| Birth Date: | 16 August 1914 |
| Birth Place: | Buffalo, New York |
| Citizenship: | United States |
| Death Place: | New York, New York |
| Occupation: | Journalist for Buffalo Courier-Express, Associated Press, New York Journal American, WOR |
John Dennis Patrick O'Brian (August 16, 1914 - November 5, 2000) was an American entertainment journalist best known for his longtime role as a television critic for New York Journal American.[1]
A supporter of Senator Joseph McCarthy,O'Brian wrote a series of red-baiting attacks on CBS News and WCBS TV reporter Don Hollenbeck, accusing him of having Communist sympathies. These attacks may have been a major factor in Hollenbeck's eventual suicide in 1954, and are referenced in the 1986 film Murrow and the 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck.[2] [3]
After the death of Dorothy Kilgallen, his colleague at the Journal American, in November 1965, O'Brian took over her old Voice of Broadway column.[4]
O'Brian was married to Yvonne Johnston, who died in 1996. They were the parents of two daughters, Bridget and Kate O'Brian, who was president of Al Jazeera America.[5]