Lex Coleman

Lex Coleman (Lester K. Coleman) Dr. Coleman is the Developer of "Audiophonic Visual Isolation" ( AVI ), a process to improve individual speech and linguistics skills, particularly related to TEFL applications. AVI has been adopted by Federal, State, and Local government agencies in the USA, the State of Florida Department of Education and by several major corporations worldwide.

Professor Coleman is a master of dialect, a professional voice actor, a Emmy Award winning television news producer, author, and former White House radio correspondent.Time Magazine, 04/27/97

Biography

Early life and education

*"D.Arts" University La Rochville,France, CUNY,Communications & Linguistics Studies
*"M.A." Auburn University, Communications
*"B.A." Jacksonville State University, Law Studies

Career

He began his career as a reporter with United Press International (UPI) in Alabama and North Carolina. He moved into broadcast news and was propelled into the national limelight, breaking the story that Alabama Governor, George C. Wallace's wife tapped the governors bedroom telephone. The story won him the Edward R. Murrow Award. He won his first Emmy for exposing the fraud behind the Boston Greenline trolley cars for WBZ TV.

He was RKO's first White House correspondent covering the presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. He was a senior producer for Jack Anderson Confidential. Coleman went on to co-produce segments for 20/20 and 60 Minutes. He moved to CBS foreign desk, covering the Hajj in Saudi Arabia and the civil war in Lebanon. Later he won the overseas press club award and a second Emmy for his contribution to exposing the plight of farmers caught in the Lebanese drug trade for NBC News.

He was a producer with ABC News in London for Senior European Correspondent, Pierre Salinger in the late 1980s. Their reports linking the Kenyan 3 to the bombing of Pan Am 103 won them an Emmy.

He was slightly wounded in Lebanon in 1990, forcing him to leave active reporting. In 1993 he co-authored a book with noted crime writer, Donald Goddard, "Trail of the Octopus," a biography about his late twin brother, Lester Coleman, a former U.S.intelligence agent turned Whistle Blower in the Pan Am 103 bombing cover-up.

He subsequently served as Director of Public Affairs for the Boys Scouts of America, and a similar position at the American University in Cairo.

Dr. Coleman, until recently, served as Professor of Mass Communications and Chair of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, American University of Technology, Halat - Byblos, Lebanon. He is writing a book about his Lebanese experience, titled,"Lebanon Land"

Published works

Books

*"Squeal" Behind the New England Mafia, Spoonwood Press.
*"Trail of the Octopus", The Untold Story of Pan Am 103.
*"Lebanon Land", Publication date, Fall 2009.

Documentaries

*"A Matter of Fraud, A Question of Ethics", Harte-Hankes Broadcasting, Writer, Producer.
*"Right Track, Wrong Trolley", Westinghouse Television, Reporter, Producer.
*"The Ethal Donahue Affair", Post-Newsweek Television, Reporter, Producer
*"The Lebanese Connection", NBC News, Writer, co-producer.
*"The Maltese Double Cross", TV4 United Kingdom, Contributing writer, producer.

Awards

*Emmy Award: Right "Track Wrong Trolley", WBZ TV, Boston
*Emmy Award: "The Lebanese Connection", NBC News, London
*OverSeas Press Club Award, "The Lebanese Connection", NBC News
*Edward R. Murrow Award, "The Wallace Tapes", WSGN Birmingham, Al
*The Society of Professional Journalists Award for Public Service