Edward R. Murrow
April 8, 1956: CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow talking to reporters during a stop in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Born	April 25, 1908(1908-04-25) Guilford County, North Carolina
Died	April 27, 1965 (aged 57) New York

Edward R. "Ed" Murrow (April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American journalist and media figure. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada. Mainstream historians consider him among journalism's greatest figures; Murrow hired a top-flight cadre of war correspondents and was noted for honesty and integrity in delivering the news. A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of TV news reports that helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Image File history File linksMetadata EdMurrow. ... Wiesbaden is a city in central Germany. ... is the 115th day of the year (116th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Guilford County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... “NY” redirects here. ... is the 115th day of the year (116th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Journalism is a discipline of gathering, writing and reporting news, and more broadly it includes the process of editing and presenting the news articles. ... For other uses, see News (disambiguation). ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... For other persons named Joseph McCarthy, see Joseph McCarthy (disambiguation). ...

Early life

Edward R. Murrow was born on April 25, 1908 near Polecat Creek, near Greensboro, in Guilford County, North Carolina, the youngest son of Quaker parents. He looked after his 6 sisters and 8 brothers. He was a "mixture of English, Scots, Irish and German" descent ([1]). His home was a log cabin without electricity or plumbing, on a farm bringing in only a few hundred dollars a year from corn and hay. Greensboro Skyline Greensboro redirects here. ... Guilford County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. ... “Quaker” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Log cabin (disambiguation). ... Binomial name L. Corn (Zea mays L. ssp. ... For other uses, see Hay (disambiguation). ...

When Murrow was six his family moved to the state of Washington, homesteading thirty miles from the Canadian border, in Blanchard, Washington. For the capital city of the United States, see Washington, D.C.. For other uses, see Washington (disambiguation). ... The Homestead principle in law is the concept that one can gain ownership of something which currently has no owner by using that thing. ...

He attended high school in nearby Edison, becoming president of the student body in his senior year and excelling on the debating team. He was on the Skagit County championship basketball team. By that time, the teenage Murrow was going by the nickname "Ed". During his second year of college Murrow changed his name from Egbert to Edward. Edison is a census-designated place located in Skagit County, Washington. ... Debate (North American English) or debating (British English) is a formal method of interactive and position representational which is givin by ralph arbons arguments. ... Skagit County is a county located in the state of Washington. ... This article is about the sport. ...

In 1926, he enrolled in Washington State College in Pullman, Washington, eventually majoring in speech. A member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Murrow was also active in college politics and in 1929, while attending the annual convention of the National Student Federation of America, his speech urging college students to become more interested in national and world affairs led to his election as president of the federation. He then moved to New York after graduating in 1930. Washington State University (WSU) is a major public research university in Pullman, Washington. ... Pullman is located at (46. ... ΚΣ (Kappa Sigma) is an international fraternity with currently 236 chapters and 42 colonies in North America. ... “NY” redirects here. ...

He worked as assistant director of the Institute of International Education from 1932 to 1935, serving as the Assistant Secretary of the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars, which helped prominent German scholars (mostly Jews) who had been dismissed from academic positions. He married Janet Huntington Brewster on March 12, 1935. Their son, Charles Casey, was born November 6, 1945, in West London. About the Institute of International Education The Institute of International Education (IIE) is a world leader in the international exchange of people and ideas. ... Janet Huntington Brewster (September 18, 1910 -December 18, 1998) was an American philanthropist, writer and radio broadcaster. ... is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Satellite image of the inner part of West London Ayad Dibis is the best in West London. ...

Career at CBS

Murrow joined CBS — the Columbia Broadcasting System — as director of talks in 1935, and remained with the network for his entire career in broadcast journalism. At that time, CBS did not have a news staff, save for newscaster/announcer Bob Trout. Murrow's job was to line up newsmakers who would appear on the network to talk about the issues of the day. But the onetime Washington State speech major was intrigued by Trout's on-air delivery, and Trout gave Murrow tips on how to communicate effectively on the radio. This article is about the broadcast network. ... Broadcast journalism refers to television news and radio news, as well as the online news outlets of broadcast affiliates. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Continuity announcer. ... Robert (Bob) Trout (1909 - 2000) was an American broadcast news reporter, best known for his radio work before and during World War II. He became known to some as the Iron Man of Radio for his incredible ability to ad lib while on the air, as well as his stamina...

In 1937, Murrow went to London to serve as the director of CBS's European operations. The position did not involve on-air reporting; rather, his job was persuading European figures to broadcast over the CBS network, which was in direct competition with the NBC (National Broadcasting Company)'s two radio networks. In this role, Murrow recruited journalist William L. Shirer to take a similar post on the Continent. The two men would become the progenitors of broadcast journalism. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Shirer (at far left) after winning a National Book Award in 1961 for his The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pictured with fellow authors and award winners Conrad Richter and Randall Jarrell. ... Continental Europe, also referred to as mainland Europe or simply the Continent, is the continent of Europe, explicitly excluding European islands and, at times, peninsulas. ...

Radio

Murrow gained his first glimpse of fame during the March 1938 Anschluss, in which Adolf Hitler engineered the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany. While Murrow was in Poland arranging a broadcast of children's choruses, he got word from Shirer of the annexation — and the fact that Shirer could not get the story out through Austrian state radio facilities. Murrow immediately sent Shirer to London, where he delivered an uncensored, eyewitness account of the Anschluss. Murrow then chartered a plane to fly from Warsaw to Vienna, so he could take over for Shirer. German troops march into Austria on 12 March 1938. ... Hitler redirects here. ... Ceremonies during the annexation of Hawaii. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... For other uses, see Warsaw (disambiguation) and Warszawa (disambiguation). ... “Wien” redirects here. ...

At the request of CBS-New York (most reference books say it was either chief executive William S. Paley or news director Paul White), Murrow and Shirer put together a "European News Roundup" of reaction to the Anschluss, which brought correspondents from various European cities together for a single broadcast. The March 13, 1938 special, hosted by Bob Trout in New York, included Shirer in London (with Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson), reporter Edgar Ansel Mowrer of the Chicago Daily News in Paris, reporter Pierre J. Huss of the International News Service in Berlin, and Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach in Washington, D.C. Another reporter, Frank Gervasi in Rome, was unable to find a transmitter to broadcast reaction from the Italian capital, but phoned his script to Shirer in London, who read it on the broadcast. William S. Paley (1901-1990) This article is about the broadcast executive. ... Paul W. White (b. ... is the 72nd day of the year (73rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ellen Cicely Wilkinson (8 October 1891, Manchester-6 February 1947) was the Labour Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough and later for Jarrow on Tyneside. ... Edgar Ansel Mowrer was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for his reporting on the rise of Adolf Hitler. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... Pierre John Huss (1903-?) was a journalist and author, best known as a war correspondent during World War II. Huss was for many years chief International News Service (INS) correspondent in Berlin. ... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach was an American lawyer, politician, and judge. ... For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... Nickname: Motto: SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Government  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area  - City 1,285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban 5...

Murrow himself reported live from Vienna, in the first on-the-scene news report of his career: "This is Edward Murrow speaking from Vienna... It's now nearly 2:30 in the morning, and Herr Hitler has not yet arrived."

The broadcast was considered revolutionary at the time. Featuring multi-point, live reports in the days before modern technology (and without each of the parties necessarily being able to hear one another), it came off almost flawlessly. The special became the basis for the World News Roundup — broadcasting's oldest news series, which still runs each weekday morning and evening on the CBS Radio Network. The CBS World News Roundup is a radio newscast that airs weekday mornings and evenings on the CBS Radio Network. ... The CBS Radio Network provides news, sports and other programming to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. ...

In September 1938, Murrow and Shirer were regular participants in CBS's coverage of the crisis over the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, which Hitler coveted for Germany and eventually won in the Munich Agreement. Their incisive reporting heightened the American appetite for radio news, with listeners regularly waiting for Murrow's shortwave broadcasts, introduced by analyst H. V. Kaltenborn in New York saying, "Calling Ed Murrow... come in Ed Murrow." Sudetenland (Czech and Polish: Sudety) was the German name used in English in the first half of the 20th century for the Western regions of Czechoslovakia inhabited mostly by Germans, specifically the border areas of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Silesia associated with Bohemia. ... For the annual global security meeting held in Munich, see Munich Conference on Security Policy Chamberlain holds the paper containing the resolution to commit to peaceful methods signed by both Hitler and himself on his return from Germany in September 1938. ... A solid-state, analog shortwave receiver Shortwave radio operates between the frequencies of 3 MHz (3,000 kHz) and 30 MHz (30,000 kHz) [1] and came to be referred to as such in the early days of radio because the wavelengths associated with this frequency range were shorter than... Hans von Kaltenborn (July 9, 1878 - 14 June 1965) was an American radio commentator. ...

During the following year, leading up to the outbreak of World War II, Murrow continued to be based in London. William Shirer's reporting from Berlin brought him national acclaim, and a commentator's position with CBS News upon his return to the United States in December 1940. (Shirer would describe his Berlin experiences in his best-selling book, Berlin Diary.) When the war broke out in September 1939, Murrow stayed in London, and later provided live radio broadcasts during the height of the London Blitz. Those broadcasts electrified radio audiences as news programming never had before. Previously, war coverage had mostly been provided by newspaper reports, along with newsreels seen in movie theaters; earlier radio news programs had simply featured an announcer in a studio reading wire service reports. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Berlin Diary (1934-1941) is a first-hand account of the rise of the Third Reich and its road to war, as witnessed by the American journalist William L. Shirer. ... For other uses, see Blitz. ... A newsreel is a documentary film that is regularly released in a public presentation place containing filmed news stories. ... A news agency is an organization journalists established to supply news reports to organizations in the news trade: newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. ...

Two famous phrases

Murrow's reports, especially during the Blitz, began with what became his signature opening, "This is London." Murrow delivered it with his vocal emphasis on the word this, followed by the hint of a pause before the rest of the phrase.

His former speech teacher, Ida Lou Anderson, suggested the opening as a more concise alternative to the one he had inherited from his predecessor at CBS Europe, Cesar Saerchinger: "Hello America. This is London calling." Murrow's phrase became synonymous with the newscaster and his network. (The emphatic this would later become a catch phrase for the network — "This...is CBS" — and for imitators, such as James Earl Jones' "This...is CNN", and Amy Goodman's "This...is Democracy Now."). James Earl Jones (b. ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Amy Goodman (b. ... Democracy Now! is an independent, award-winning news and opinion radio program airing on over 300 stations across North America every weekday, as well as both satellite television networks. ...

Murrow achieved great celebrity as a result of his war reports. They led to his second famous catch phrase. At the end of 1940, with every night's German bombing raid, Londoners who might not necessarily see each other the next morning often closed their conversations not just with "so long," but with "so long, and good luck." The future British monarch, Princess Elizabeth, said as much to the Western world in a live radio address at the end of the year, when she said "good night, and good luck to you all." Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ...

So, at the end of one 1940 broadcast, Murrow ended his segment with "Good night, and good luck." Speech teacher Anderson insisted he stick with it, and another Murrow catch phrase was born. This one has most recently been echoed by MSNBC's anchor Keith Olbermann on the nightly news program, Countdown. MSNBC, a combination of MSN and NBC, is a 24-hour cable news channel in the United States and Canada, and a news website. ... Keith Olbermann (born January 27, 1959) is an American news anchor, commentator and radio sportscaster. ... Countdown with Keith Olbermann is an hour-long nightly newscast on MSNBC which airs live at 8:00 p. ...

When he returned to the U.S. in 1941, his first trip back in three years, CBS hosted a dinner in his honor on December 2 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. There were eleven hundred guests in attendance with millions more listening via radio. Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a welcome-back telegram, which was read at the dinner, and Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish gave an encomium which commented on the power and intimacy of his war-time dispatches: is the 336th day of the year (337th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The hotels name with a single hyphen is engraved and gilded over the entrance. ... FDR redirects here. ... Library of Congress, Jefferson building The Library of Congress is one of four official national libraries of the United States (along with the National Library of Medicine, National Agricultural Library, and National Archives and Records Administration). ... Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. ... Encomium is a Greek word which, in a general sense, means the praise of a person or thing. ...

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor occurred less than a week after this speech, and the U.S. entered the war as a combatant on the Allied side. This article is about the actual attack. ...

Murrow flew on Allied bombing raids in Europe during the war, providing additional reports from the planes as they droned on over Europe (recorded for delayed broadcast). Murrow's skill at improvising vivid descriptions of what was going on around or below him, derived in part from his college training in speech, aided the effectiveness of his radio broadcasts.

As hostilities expanded, Murrow expanded the CBS news staff. The result was a group of reporters acclaimed for their intellect and descriptive power, including Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, Howard K. Smith, Mary Marvin Breckinridge, Cecil Brown, Richard C. Hottelet, Bill Downs, Winston Burdett, Charles Shaw, Ned Calmer, and Larry LeSueur. Many of them, Shirer included, were later dubbed "Murrow's Boys" — despite Breckinridge being a woman. Pioneering broadcast journalist Eric Sevareid. ... Charles Collingwood (June 4, 1917 - October 3, 1985) was a CBS television newscaster. ... Howard K. Smith Howard Kingsbury Smith (May 12, 1914 – February 15, 2002) was an American journalist, radio reporter, television anchorman and commentator, and one of the original Murrow boys. ... Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson (1905-2002) , usually known as Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, or Marvin Breckinridge, was an American photojournalist, cinematographer, and philanthropist. ... Cecil Brown is the author of the book Suez to Singapore, which describes the sinking of HMS Repulse in December 1941. ... Richard C. Hottelet (Sep. ... William Randall Bill Downs (Aug. ... Winston Burdett (Dec. ... Charles Shaw (June 25, 1911—14 December 1987), was an American journalist who worked with Edward R. Murrow during World War II and then went on to be News Director and broadcast journalist at WCAU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Philadelphia. ... Ned Calmer (July 16, 1907--March 9, 1986) was a Chicago-born American journalist and author. ... Born Laurence Edward LeSueur, Larry LeSueur (June 10, 1909-Feb. ... Murrow’s Boys, or “The Murrow Boys,” were the CBS broadcast journalists most closely associated with Edward R. Murrow during his years at the network, specifically the years before and during World War II. Murrow recruited a number of newsmen and women to CBS during his years as a correspondent...

After the war, Murrow recruited journalists such as Alexander Kendrick, David Schoenbrun, Daniel Schorr and Robert Pierpoint into the circle of the Boys, as a virtual "second generation," though the track record of the original wartime crew set it apart. (Schorr remains active in broadcasting as a commentator/analyst for National Public Radio.) Alexander Kendrick (b. ... David Schoenbrun (born in New York City, New York March 15, 1915-died in New York City, New York May 23, 1988) was an American broadcast journalist. ... Daniel Schorr (born August 31, 1916) is a journalist who has covered the world for more than 60 years. ... Robert Pierpoint was an American broadcast journalist who worked for CBS. Before becoming CBS White House Correspondent Pierpoint covered the Korean War. ... “NPR” redirects here. ...

Murrow's report from the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany provides an example of his uncompromising style of journalism, something that caused a great deal of controversy and won him a number of critics and enemies. He described the exhausted physical state of the concentration camp prisoners who had survived, mentioned "rows of bodies stacked up like cordwood" and he refused to apologize for the harsh tone of his words: Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp (Elie Wiesel is second row, seventh from left). ...

Postwar broadcasting career

Radio

The relationship between Ed Murrow and Bill Shirer ended in 1947, in one of the great confrontations of American broadcast journalism, when Shirer resigned from CBS. The dispute started when J.B. Williams, maker of shaving soap, withdrew its sponsorship of Shirer's Sunday news show. CBS, of which Murrow was then vice president for public affairs, did not find Shirer another sponsor and allowed the show to keep running on a "sustaining" (non-sponsored) basis, which resulted in a loss of income for its moderator.

Shirer contended that the root of his troubles was the network and sponsor not standing by him because of his comments critical of the Truman Doctrine, as well as other comments that were considered outside of the mainstream. Shirer and his supporters felt he was being muzzled because of his views. Meantime, Murrow, and even some of Murrow's Boys, felt that Shirer was coasting on his high reputation and not working hard enough to bolster his analyses with his own research. Murrow and Shirer never regained their close friendship. The Truman Doctrine was a proclamation by U.S. president Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947. ...

The episode hastened Murrow's desire to give up his network vice presidency and return to newscasting, and foreshadowed Murrow's own problems to come with his friend and CBS boss, William S. Paley. William S. Paley (1901-1990) This article is about the broadcast executive. ...

Murrow and Paley had become close when the network chief himself joined the war effort, setting up Allied radio outlets in Italy and North Africa. After the war, he would often go to Paley directly to settle any problems he had. "Ed Murrow was Bill Paley's one genuine friend in CBS", noted Murrow biographer Joseph Persico.

Murrow returned to the air in September 1947, taking over the nightly newscast sponsored by Campbell's Soup and anchored by his old friend and announcing coach Bob Trout. (Trout left for NBC but returned to CBS in 1952.) Campbell Soup Company ( NYSE: CPB) (also known as Campbells) is undeniably the most well-known producer of canned soups and related products in the United States (and possibly the world). ... Robert (Bob) Trout (1909 - 2000) was an American broadcast news reporter, best known for his radio work before and during World War II. He became known to some as the Iron Man of Radio for his incredible ability to ad lib while on the air, as well as his stamina...

In 1950, Murrow narrated a half-hour radio documentary called "The Case for the Flying Saucers." It offered a balanced look at unidentified flying objects, a subject of widespread interest in the early 1950s. Murrow interviewed both Kenneth Arnold (whose 1947 report kickstarted interest in UFOs) and astronomer Dr. Donald Menzel (who argued that UFO reports could be explained as people misidentifying prosaic phenomena). This documentary is available online; see external links below. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ... “UFO” redirects here. ... Kenneth A. Arnold (born March 29, 1915 in Sebeka, Minnesota; died January 16, 1984 in Bellevue, Washington) was an American businessman and pilot. ... Donald Howard Menzel (April 11, 1901 – December 14, 1976) was an American astronomer. ...

From 1951 to 1955 Edward R. Murrow was the host of This I Believe which was revived on Radio Luxembourg as a program with British hosts from 1956 to 1958 and which was revived recently in 2005 by National Public Radio and in 2007 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was the subject of BBC Radio 4's Archive Hour on the 14th July 2007. All the essays broadcast are accessible, within to a growing collection of contemporary submissions, at the This I Believe website, including, for example, Albert Einstein's contribution. Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... This I Believe was a five-minute CBS radio network program hosted by journalist Edward R. Murrow from 1951 to 1955. ... Radio Luxembourg (1933-1992, 2005-)was an important forerunner of pirate radio and modern commercial radio in Europe. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... “NPR” redirects here. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ... old Radio 4 logo BBC Radio 4 is a UK domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...

Murrow continued to present daily radio news reports on the CBS Radio Network until 1959. He also recorded a series of spoken-word historical albums called I Can Hear It Now, which inaugurated his partnership with producer Fred W. Friendly. Fred W. Friendly Fred W. Friendly (October 30, 1915 – March 3, 1998) was the former president of CBS News and the creator, with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now. ...

In 1950, the records evolved into the weekly CBS Radio show Hear It Now, hosted by Murrow and co-produced by Murrow and Friendly.

Television and Films

Edward R. Murrow on the first broadcast of WNDT in 1962.

As the 1950s began, Murrow began appearing on CBS Television, in editorial "tailpieces" on the CBS Evening News and coverage of special events. This came despite his own misgivings about the new medium and its emphasis on pictures rather than ideas. Image File history File links WNET_Edward_R._Murrow_1962. ... Image File history File links WNET_Edward_R._Murrow_1962. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963. ...

On November 18, 1951, the Hear It Now format Murrow and Friendly pioneered on radio moved to television as See It Now. After the pre-title sequence and introduction, viewers saw and heard host Murrow, with a knowing smile, explain, This is an old team, trying to learn a new trade. is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... See It Now was a television newsmagazine and documentary broadcast by CBS in the 1950s. ...

See It Now focused on a number of controversial issues in the 1950s, but it is best remembered as the show that criticized the Red Scare and contributed to the political downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Some factual claims in this article need to be verified. ... For other persons named Joseph McCarthy, see Joseph McCarthy (disambiguation). ...

In 1953, Murrow launched a second weekly TV show — a series of celebrity interviews entitled Person to Person. Just as Murrow had nearly single-handedly pioneered TV news journalism, with Person to Person he also set the standard for celebrity interviews, producing a format that is still followed. The Best of Person to Person is currently being distributed under the Koch Vision label. A person-to-person call is an operator assisted telephone call in which the calling party wants to speak to a specific party and not to anyone who answers. ... Koch Vision, a division of Koch Entertainment LP, was founded in 1999 as part of Koch Entertainments entry into the television programming and home video market. ...

On March 9, 1954, Murrow, Friendly, and their news team produced a 30-minute See It Now special entitled "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy." Murrow used excerpts from McCarthy's own speeches and proclamations to criticize the senator and point out episodes where he had contradicted himself. Murrow knew full well that he was using the medium of television to attack a single man and expose him to nationwide scrutiny, and he was often quoted as having doubts about the method he used for this news report. is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Murrow and his See It Now co-producer, Fred Friendly, paid for their own newspaper advertisement for the program; they were not allowed to use CBS' money for the publicity campaign or even use the CBS logo. Nonetheless, this 30-minute TV episode contributed to a nationwide backlash against McCarthy and against the Red Scare in general, and it is seen as a turning point in the history of television. Fred W. Friendly (October 30, 1915–March 3, 1998) is the former president of CBS News and the creator, with Edward R. Murrow of the documentary television program See It Now. ...

The broadcast provoked tens of thousands of letters, telegrams and phone calls to CBS headquarters, running 15 to 1 in favor of Murrow. In a Murrow retrospective produced by CBS for the A&E Network series Biography, Friendly noted how truck drivers pulled up to Murrow on the street in subsequent days and shouted "Good show, Ed. Good show, Ed." Biography is one of A&Es longest-running and most popular programs. ... Biography is a documentary television program. ...

Murrow offered McCarthy a chance to comment on the CBS show, and McCarthy provided his own televised response to Murrow three weeks later on See It Now. The senator's rebuttal contributed nearly as much to his own downfall as Murrow or any of McCarthy's other detractors did; Murrow had learned how to use the medium of television, but McCarthy had not.

Murrow's hard-hitting approach to the news, however, cost him influence in the world of television. See It Now occasionally scored high ratings (usually when it was tackling a particularly controversial subject), but in general it did not score well on prime-time television.

When a quiz show phenomenon began and took TV by storm in the mid-1950s, Murrow realized the days of See It Now as a weekly show were numbered. (Biographer Joseph Persico notes that Murrow, watching an early episode of The $64,000 Question air just before his own See It Now, is said to have turned to Friendly and asked how long they expected to keep their time slot). Quiz Show is a 1994 film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

The weekly version of See It Now ended in 1955, after sponsor Alcoa withdrew its advertising, but the show remained as a series of occasional TV special news reports that defined television documentary news coverage. Despite the prestige, CBS had difficulty finding a regular sponsor, since the program aired intermittently in its new time slot and could not develop a regular audience. This article is about the company. ... A Television Special is a television program that is essentially a television movie or a short film usually intended to be broadcast sporadically, typically once a year at most. ... A television documentary is a documentary or a series of documentaries that are meant to be broadcasted on television. ...

In 1956, Murrow took time to appear as the onscreen narrator of a special prologue for Michael Todd's epic production, Around the World in 80 Days. Although the prologue was generally omitted on telecasts of the film, it was included in home video releases. Several people have been called Michael Todd: Michael Todd (Movie Industry Executive) Michael Todd (Computer Pioneer) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Around the World in Eighty Days is a 1956 movie based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne, involving a dare proposed to English aristocrat Phileas Fogg by his gentlemens club to undertake a bold journey to travel around the world in only 80 days. ...

Murrow's reporting brought him into repeated conflicts with CBS and especially Paley, a contretemps that Friendly summarized in his book Due to Circumstances Beyond our Control. See It Now ended in summer 1958 after a clash between Murrow and Paley in Paley's office. Murrow had complained to Paley he could not continue doing the show if the network repeatedly provided (without consulting Murrow) equal time to subjects who felt wronged by the program.

According to Friendly, Murrow asked Paley if he was going to destroy See It Now, into which the CBS chief executive had poured so much. Paley replied that he did not want a constant stomach ache every time Murrow covered a controversial subject^{[citation needed]}.

See It Now's final broadcast, "Watch on the Ruhr" (about postwar Germany), aired July 7, 1958. Three months later, on October 15, 1958, in a speech before the Radio and Television News Directors Association in Chicago, Murrow blasted TV's emphasis on entertainment and commercialism at the expense of public service. is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The harsh tone of the Chicago speech seriously damaged Murrow's friendship with Bill Paley, who felt Murrow was biting the hand that fed him. Before his own death, Friendly said that the RTNDA address did more than the McCarthy show to break the relationship between CBS's chairman and its most-respected journalist.

Beginning in 1958, Murrow hosted a talk show entitled Small World that brought together political figures for one-to-one debates. A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... Small World may refer to a number of things, including the following: Small World, a comic novel by the British author David Lodge. ...

After contributing to the first episode of the documentary series CBS Reports, Murrow took a sabbatical from summer 1959 to mid-1960, though he continued to work on CBS Reports and Small World during this period. Friendly, executive producer of CBS Reports, wanted the network to allow Murrow to again be his co-producer after the sabbatical, but he was eventually turned down.

Murrow's last major TV milestone was reporting and narrating the CBS Reports installment "Harvest of Shame", a report on the plight of migrant farm workers in the United States. Directed by Friendly and produced by David Lowe, it ran in November 1960, just after Thanksgiving. Harvest of Shame is the final documentary presented by legendary broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow on CBS. It concerns the plight of U.S. migrant agricultural workers. ... The First Thanksgiving, painted by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930). ...

Murrow portrayed himself in the British film production of Sink the Bismarck! in 1960, recreating some of the wartime broadcasts he did from London for CBS. Sink the Bismarck! is a 1960 black-and-white war film based on the book The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck by C. S. Forester, and recounts the true story of the Royal Navys attempts to find and sink the famous German battleship during World War II. It...

Murrow finally resigned from CBS to accept a position as head of the United States Information Agency, parent of the Voice of America, in 1961. President John F. Kennedy offered Murrow the position, which he viewed as "a timely gift". CBS president Frank Stanton had reportedly been offered the job but declined, suggesting that Murrow be offered the job. The United States Information Agency (USIA), which existed from 1953 to 1999, was a United States agency devoted to what it called public diplomacy. ... Voice of America logo Voice of America (VOA), is the official external radio and television broadcasting service of the United States federal government. ... John Kennedy and JFK redirect here. ... Frank Nicholas Stanton (March 20, 1908 – December 24, 2006) served as the president of CBS between 1946 and 1971 and then vice chairman until 1973. ...

On September 16, 1962, Murrow introduced educational television to New York City via the maiden broadcast of WNDT, which became WNET. is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Summary of television work

• 1951-58 See It Now (host)
• 1953-59 Person to Person (host)
• 1958-60 Small World (moderator and producer)

United States Information Agency (USIA) Director

Murrow's appointment as head of the United States Information Agency was seen as a vote of confidence in the agency, which provided the official views of the government to the public in other nations. The USIA had been under fire during the McCarthy era, and Murrow brought back at least one of McCarthy's targets, Reed Harris. Murrow insisted on a high level of presidential access, telling Kennedy, "If you want me in on the landings, I'd better be there for the takeoffs." However, the early effects of his cancer kept him from taking an active role in the Bay of Pigs planning. He did advise the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis but was ill at the time the president was assassinated. Asked to stay on by President Lyndon B. Johnson, Murrow did so but resigned in early 1964, citing illness. The United States Information Agency (USIA), which existed from 1953 to 1999, was a United States agency devoted to what it called public diplomacy. ... Map showing the location of the Bay of Pigs. ... President Kennedy in a crowded Cabinet Room during the Cuban Missile Crisis. ... “LBJ” redirects here. ...

Murrow's celebrity gave the agency a higher profile and may have helped it earn more funds from Congress. His transfer to a governmental position did lead to an embarrassing incident shortly after taking the job, when he was compelled to ask the BBC not to show "Harvest of Shame," which had been included in a collection of U.S. network television documentaries made available to other countries by the USIA. For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...

According to some biographers, near the end of Murrow's life, when health problems forced him to resign from the USIA, Paley reportedly invited Murrow to return to CBS. Murrow, possibly knowing he could not work, declined Paley's offer.

Honors

• In 1964, Murrow was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
• He was made an honorary knight of Great Britain by Queen Elizabeth II on March 5, 1965. (a Knight Commander of the British Empire) and received similar honors from the governments of Belgium, France, and Sweden.
• He received "Special" George Polk Awards in 1951 and 1952.
• In 1967, he was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for his Edward R. Murrow - A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I The War Years.
• The School of Communication at Washington State University is named in his honor.
• Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, NY is named after him.
• Murrow Boulevard is a large thoroughfare in the heart of Greensboro, NC.

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Death

Murrow was a heavy smoker all his life, and was rarely seen without a cigarette, smoking around 60 to 65 a day. His show, See It Now, was the first television program to have a report about the connection between smoking and cancer. Murrow said during the show that "I doubt I could spend a half hour without a cigarette with any comfort or ease". Murrow's brother Lacey was also a heavy smoker and developed cancer. Lacey committed suicide in 1966. Ed developed lung cancer and lived two years after an operation to remove his left lung. He died at his home on April 27, 1965 two days after his 57th birthday. After his cremation, his ashes were scattered on the site of his upstate New York home, Glen Arden Farm. Upon his death, Murrow's colleague and friend Eric Sevareid said of him, "He was a shooting star; and we will live in his afterglow a very long time". CBS carried a memorial program, which included a rare on-camera appearance by Paley to honor Murrow. Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion, or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (where cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system). ... For other uses, see Suicide (disambiguation). ... Lung cancer is the malignant transformation and expansion of lung tissue, and is the most lethal of all cancers worldwide, responsible for 1. ... Human respiratory system The lungs flank the heart and great vessels in the chest cavity. ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Pioneering broadcast journalist Eric Sevareid. ...

The Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy

After Murrow's death in 1965, Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy was established at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Mr. Murrow's library and papers are housed in the Murrow Memorial Reading Room that also serves as a special seminar classroom and meeting room for Fletcher activities. Tufts University is a private research university in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts, suburbs of Boston. ... The Cabot Intercultural Center of The Fletcher School at Tufts University The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, also called simply The Fletcher School, is the oldest graduate school of international relations in the United States. ...

The Center awards Murrow fellowships to mid-career professionals who engage in research at Fletcher, ranging from the impact of the "new world information order" debate in the international media during the 1970s and 1980's to, currently, telecommunications policies and regulation. Many distinguished journalists, diplomats, and policymakers have spent time at the center, among them the late David Halberstam, who worked on his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Best and the Brightest, as a writer-in-residence in the early 1970s. Veteran journalist Crocker Snow, Jr. was named director of the Murrow Center in 2005. It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... Telecommunication involves the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. ... David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 – April 23, 2007) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... The Best and the Brightest (1972) is an account by journalist David Halberstam on the origins of the Vietnam War. ... Crocker Snow, Jr. ...

Legacy

Edward R. Murrow's exemplary career remains one of the cornerstones of broadcast journalism, and his widely-agreed status as broadcasting's greatest journalist has not waned in the decades since his death.

During the 1950s, Murrow and his CBS colleague Walter Cronkite had not admired one another's broadcasting styles, which differed drastically. (Cronkite had turned down Murrow's offer to join CBS during World War II, but accepted when Murrow came calling again in 1950. Six years later, CBS paired Murrow and Cronkite as anchors for its Republican National Convention coverage, in an effort to counter NBC's team of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, who had been teamed for that network's Democratic National Convention coverage, which drew a larger audience than CBS' did. The Murrow/Cronkite pairing did not last past the GOP convention.) Nonetheless, in a 1998 retrospective produced by CBS for the A&E program Biography, Cronkite said of Murrow, "He's the head of the parade, he's the pinnacle of the pyramid. He led the way." This does not cite any references or sources. ... Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. ... Biography is one of A&Es longest-running and most popular programs. ... Biography is a documentary television program. ...

In 1971, the RTNDA established the Edward R. Murrow Award, honoring outstanding achievement in the field of electronic journalism. There are two other awards also known as the "Edward R. Murrow Award". The Edward R. Murrow Award is an award presented by the Radio-Television News Directors Association in recognition of what the Association terms outstanding achievements in electronic journalism. ... The Edward R. Murrow awards are presented by the Radio-Television News Directors Association in recognition of what the Association terms outstanding achievements in electronic journalism. ...

Murrow in popular culture

• Murrow played himself in the 1960 film Sink the Bismarck![2].
• In 1986, HBO broadcast the made-for-cable biographical movie, Murrow, with Daniel J. Travanti in the title role.

David Strathairn as Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck.

• Good Night, and Good Luck., a 2005 Oscar-nominated film directed and co-written by George Clooney about the conflict between Murrow and anti-communist Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations as well as the retaliation and intimidation that he and other newsmen suffered by going up against McCarthy and the corporations and government institutions that supported him. Most of this took place on Murrow's show See It Now. Murrow was portrayed by actor David Strathairn, who received an Oscar nomination.
• Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC's Countdown program, considers Murrow his idol and closes his own show nightly with Murrow's trademark "Good Night and Good Luck".
• A 1995 episode of the BBC comedy series Goodnight Sweetheart had time traveller Gary Sparrow meeting Murrow in 1941 and attempting to pass on information about the impending attack on Pearl Harbor.
• In the NBC TV series NewsRadio (1995-1999), the character Bill McNeal, played by Phil Hartman, jokingly refers several times to Edward R. Murrow's legacy and ingenuity in radio journalism, once being asked by station secretary Beth, "Who's Edward Armurro?"
• The book Carl Erskine's Tales from the Dodgers Dugout: Extra Innings (2004) includes short stories from former Dodger pitcher Carl Erskine. Murrow is prominent in many of these stories.
• In 1998, the final episode of Murphy Brown had Murphy meeting Edward R. Murrow while visiting Heaven. Computer editing was used to insert footage of the real Murrow into the show. On a number of occasions during the show's 1988-98 run, newscaster Jim Dial refers to Murrow and other news legends, suggesting that they would join him in lamenting the state of current television. Eventually, responding to his question of, "What would Edward R. Murrow say? What would Eric Sevareid say?" Corky Sherwood, tired of Jim's criticisms, responds, "They wouldn't say anything, Jim. You know why? Because they're dead!"
• In the film "The Insider", Lowell Bergman, a television producer for the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes, played by Al Pacino, is confronted by Mike Wallace, played by Christopher Plummer after an exposé of the tobacco industry is edited down to suit CBS corporate and then, itself, gets exposed in the press for the self-censorship. Wallace passes an editorial piece printed in the New York Times to Bergman which "…accuses us of betraying the legacy of Edward R. Murrow."
• On an episode of the television series Perfect Strangers where Larry becomes a professor of Balki's class he grades and gives a C- to a paper he thinks Balki wrote. Only to learn that it was his boss' Columbia School of Journalism paper. A paper where the professor was Edward R. Murrow.
• On their 2003 album Say You Will, Fleetwood Mac recorded a song called Murrow Turning Over in His Grave, referring to him as an icon of responsible journalism.
• Murrow was also parodied in the ABC Sitcom Dinosaurs as a newscaster, Edward R. Hero.
• In the episode "Take Your Daughter to Work Day" of the NBC sitcom The Office, a children's show sequence features a puppet cat reporter named Edward R. Meow, an obvious reference to Murrow.
• On the sitcom Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld hosts an assembly at Edward R. Murrow High School, however it is portrayed as a middle school.
• The cartoon short Person to Bunny, featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd, is an obvious parody of Murrow's Person to Person TV show. However, Murrow is only seen with his back facing to the audience.

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Image Gallery

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Quotes

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Edward R. Murrow

• About television: "This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire, but it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box." – RTNDA Convention Speech, October 15, 1958
• "No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." – Speech to staff, March 9, 1954
• "If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial equality, then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status. Every act that denies or limits the freedom of the individual in this country costs us the. . . confidence of men and women who aspire to that freedom and independence of which we speak and for which our ancestors fought." – Ford Fiftieth Anniversary Show, CBS and NBC, June 1953, "Conclusion." Murrow: His Life and Times, A.M. Sperber, Freundlich Books, 1986
• "We proclaim ourselves as indeed we are: The defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world. But we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
• "We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate his responsibility." - From the March 9, 1954, "See It Now" television broadcast on Senator Joe McCarthy.
• "A nation of sheep begets a government of wolves."
• "This is London."
• "This I believe." (name of a radio program hosted by Murrow from 1951 to 1955.)
• "Good night, and good luck."
• "Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser then when it reached only to the end of the classroom."

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Sources

1. ^  Bernard Goldberg (2005)

External links and references

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Edward R. Murrow

• Edward R. Murrow bibliography via UC Berkeley library
• New York Times obituary, April 28, 1965
• Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy at Tufts University
• The Edward R. Murrow Legacy at Washington State University
• The Case for the Flying Saucers, 1950
• "Murrow, Edward R." in Current Biography, 1942.
• "Murrow, Edward R." in American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), Vol. 16.
• Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism, by Bob Edwards (ISBN 0-471-47753-2)
• Edward R. Murrow at the Radio Hall of Fame
• Museum of Broadcast Communications, biography
• American Masters, a PBS series
• This I Believe, 1951, from National Public Radio
• RTNDA Convention Speech, 1958
• Edward R. Murrow and the Time of His Time by Joseph Wershba, CBS News writer, editor and correspondent, beginning in 1944; producer of 60 Minutes (1968-1988)
• The Night America Trembled, Murrow narrates The War of the Worlds for the Studio One television series, 1957
• Murrow, Edward R. and Ed Bliss, "In Search of Light: The News Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow" (New York: Alfred A. Knopf)
• Kendrick, Alexander "Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow" (New York).
• Sperber, A.M. "Murrow: His Life and Times" (New York:Freundlich Books 1986) reprinted by Fordham University Press
• Good Night, and Good Luck at the Internet Movie Database
• A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy, transcript of the See It Now episode on Senator McCarthy
• The transcript of See it Now, March 9, 1954: "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy hosted by the [3]UC Berkeley, Media Resources Center
• The transcript of See it Now, April 6, 1954: McCarthy rebuttal to Edward R. Murrow hosted by the [4]UC Berkeley, Media Resources Center
• State Library of North Carolina, biography
• "Edward R. Murrow, Welcome To the Full-Spin Zone", Mark Leibovich, The Washington Post, March 27, 2005 (URL accessed February 4, 2006)
• Edward R. Murrow, "Holding A Mirror to Life" Flash website with multimedia
• Murrow radio broadcasts on Earthstation 1, Selected World War II broadcasts from London and Germany

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