Overview

• Philippe Labro died on June 4, 2025, at the age of 88 after battling cancer, and his passing has prompted widespread tributes across French media and culture.
• He was one of only two French journalists on the ground in Dallas for France-Soir reporting the 1963 Kennedy assassination, an assignment that cemented his reputation.
• From 1985 to 2000, Labro served as director of programming at RTL and later co-founded the television channel Direct8 with Vincent Bolloré, now known as C8.
• Over five decades, he authored some twenty books, directed seven films including Rive droite, rive gauche, and wrote songs for Jane Birkin, Johnny Hallyday and Eddy Mitchell.
• He candidly chronicled his early-2000s struggle with depression in his memoir Tomber sept fois, se relever huit, revealing his battles with doubt and anxiety.