Joseph Roos
Joseph Roos (1908-1999) was a journalist, editor, motion picture publicist, and founder of the News Research Service, an "anti-Nazi" reporting agency backed by the Los Angeles Jewish Community Committee.
Roos was born in Vienna, Austria, and arrived in the United States in 1928. He became a Chicago newspaperman during the height of the Great Depression. In 1934 Roos moved from Chicago to southern California becoming a story editor for a book publishing company and later as a publicist for Universal Pictures.
