Bernabe Polanco Garcia, crewman of the S.S. Stockholm, Edward P. Morgan, ABC radio news commentator, and Linda Morgan, the "miracle girl" survivor of the S.S. Andrea Doria at St. Vincent's Hospital, New York City, in July, 1956. Edward P Morgan was an American journalist and writer who reported for newpapers, radio, and television media services including ABC, CBS and PBS networks. S.S. Andrea Doria of the Italian Line, 1953 The SS Andrea Doria was an ocean liner sailing from Genoa, Italy for the Italian Line. ...
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A native of Walla Walla, Washington, Morgan began his news career with the Seattle Star in 1932. He worked in print journalism for two decades, for United Press International, the Chicago Daily News and Collier's Weekly before joining CBS as a radio and TV reporter. Walla Walla is the county seat of Walla Walla County, Washington, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 29,6866. ...
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From 1955 to 1967, Morgan broadcast an evening radio program of news and commentary, "Edward P. Morgan and the News," that won him the George Foster Peabody Award, one of broadcasting's top honors, in 1956. The George Foster Peabody Awards, more commonly known as simply the Peabody Awards, are annual awards given for excellence in radio and television broadcasting and cable television within the United States. ...
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In 1956, Morgan was based in New York City and working for the ABC Radio Network. He bravely broadcast a professional new report of the collision of the ocean liners S.S. Andrea Doria and S.S. Stockholm off the Massachusetts coast, not telling listeners that his 14-year-old daughter had been aboard the Andrea Doria and was believed to have been killed. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ...
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S.S. Andrea Doria of the Italian Line, 1953 The SS Andrea Doria was an ocean liner sailing from Genoa, Italy for the Italian Line. ...
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His daughter, Linda Morgan, was discovered alive the next day, having been catapulted to a deck of the Stockholm when its bow knifed into her cabin. Dubbed by media the "miracle girl", she had received only a broken arm. Morgan then made another memorable broadcast emotionally describing the difference between reporting the news about strangers and how different it was with his own loved ones involved, describing also the extreme emotions he had experienced. He retired as an ABC commentator and Newsday Syndicate columnist in 1975. Edward P. Morgan died January 27, 1993 at his home in McLean, Virginia. Morgan was survived by his daughter Linda, and two step-children. 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...
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1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003) Events Media:January January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. ...
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