Anecdotes

Journalist, songwriter and author, his parents are deemed Justs having sheltered members of the family of Maurice Bernart.

Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001

Father, with Françoise, of Jean and Clarisse.

From 1985 to 2000, he was director of programmes at RTL becoming the vice president of the station in 1992.

Labro was a French journalist, writer, director, media man and lyricist .

He has written and directed many films and was a close friend of Jean-Pierre Melville, as he recalls in the 2008 documentary Code Name Melville.

At the age of eighteen, he left France to study at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. He then travelled across the United States. On his return to Europe, he became a reporter.

From 1960 to 1962, during the Algerian war, Labro was a member of the military.

In April 2010, he became Commander of the Légion d'honneur.

While covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy for French newspaper France-Soir, he met Jack Ruby in Dallas days before he shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald; he was thus subsequently officially interviewed by the Warren Commission.