John Holliman

John Holliman ( born October 23, 1948 † 12 September 1998) was an American journalist.

Holliman was one of the founding reporters from CNN and began there in 1980 as a correspondent for agriculture. He gained worldwide fame in January 1991 when he was one of three Western journalists in Baghdad (along with Bernard Shaw and Peter Arnett ), the outbreak of the first Gulf War for CNN live commentary. Later he focused on the space coverage. He was responsible for the coverage of the return of John Glenn provided into space when he died in a car accident near his home in the suburbs of Atlanta.

In May 1999, the U.S. space agency NASA named her Presseauditorium at Kennedy Space Center after Holliman.