page_title: Adrian Cronauer
section_title: Personal life and death
hierarchical_section_title: Adrian Cronauer / Personal life and death
caption_attribution_description: English: Adrian J. Cronauer was a former U.S. Air Force sergeant. He co-authored the original story for the major motion picture, "Good Morning, Vietnam" In that film, Cronauer was por-trayed—loosely-—by Robin Williams whose performance was nominated for an Academy Award. Mr. Cronauer sat on the Board of Directors of the National D-Day Memorial and has served as a member of the Virginia Public Broadcasting Board, and the Board of Governors of the New School for Social Research in New York City. He served two terms as a trustee of the Virginia War Memorial He was a resident of Troutville, Virginia when he died on July, 18, 2018. He is resting in the Southwest Virginia Veterans Cemetery in Dublin, Virginia.
context_page_description: Adrian Joseph Cronauer was a United States Air Force Airman 1st Class and radio personality whose experiences as an innovative disc jockey on American Forces Network during the Vietnam War inspired the 1987 film Good Morning, Vietnam starring Robin Williams as Cronauer.
context_section_description: Cronauer attended the University of Pittsburgh where he led a group that founded the school's first student radio station, now WPTS-FM.  His subsequent media work included being the classical morning host at WVWR in Roanoke, Virginia (now Virginia Tech's WVTF), during which time he created the proposal that would culminate in Good Morning, Vietnam.
  He earned a master's degree in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research in New York City and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Cronauer's law practice concentrated in information and communications law. Cronauer consented to disbarment in the District of Columbia in October 2014 for reportedly misleading consumers through misrepresentations and deceptive and fraudulent loan modification and foreclosure prevention practices. Later he worked as a special assistant to the director of the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office.
  Cronauer was a member of Mensa and a "lifelong card-carrying Republican", having taken an "active role" in both Bob Dole's 1996 unsuccessful presidential campaign and George W. Bush's 2004 successful presidential reelection campaign.
  Cronauer died on July 18, 2018, at his home in Western Virginia at the age of 79. Cause is not open to the public.
caption: Cronauer's grave
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