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American broadcast announcer

Edward R. Murrow
Murrow in 1961
Born	Egbert Roscoe Murrow (1908-04-25)April 25, 1908 Guilford Canton, Due north Carolina, U.Due south.
Died	April 27, 1965(1965-04-27) (aged 57) Pawling, New York, U.S.
Resting place	Glen Arden Farm 41°34′15.seven″N 73°36′33.six″W  /  41.571028°N 73.609333°W  / 41.571028; -73.609333  (Edward R. Murrow Burial Site)
Alma mater	Washington State University
Occupation	Journalist radio broadcaster
Years active	1935–1965
Known for	On-the-spot radio reports from London and other locations in Europe during Globe War Two. Series of television news reports that led to the censure of U.South. Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Spouse(s)	Janet Huntington Brewster ​ ​ (m. 1935)​
Children	ane
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Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; Apr 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965)^[1] was an American circulate journalist and war contributor. He start gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS. During the state of war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys.

A pioneer of radio and boob tube news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of reports on his television set program See It Now which helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, Bill Downs, Dan Rather, and Alexander Kendrick consider Murrow one of journalism'south greatest figures.

Early life [edit]

Murrow was built-in Egbert Roscoe Murrow at Polecat Creek, near Greensboro,^[2] in Guilford County, North Carolina, to Roscoe Conklin Murrow and Ethel F. (née Lamb) Murrow. His parents were Quakers.^[three] He was the youngest of iv brothers and was a "mixture of Scottish, Irish, English and German" descent.^[4] The firstborn, Roscoe Jr., lived only a few hours. Lacey Van Buren was 4 years old and Dewey Joshua was two years old when Murrow was built-in.^[5] His habitation was a log cabin without electricity or plumbing, on a subcontract bringing in only a few hundred dollars a twelvemonth from corn and hay.

When Murrow was six years old, his family moved beyond the country to Skagit County in western Washington, to homestead well-nigh Blanchard, xxx miles (l km) south of the Canada–United States border. He attended high schoolhouse in nearby Edison, and was president of the student body in his senior year and excelled on the argue team. He was also a member of the basketball team which won the Skagit County title.

Later on graduation from high schoolhouse in 1926, Murrow enrolled at Washington State College (at present Washington Land University) beyond the state in Pullman, and eventually majored in speech. A member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, he was also active in higher politics. By his teen years, Murrow went past the nickname "Ed" and during his second twelvemonth of college, he changed his name from Egbert to Edward. In 1929, while attending the annual convention of the National Pupil Federation of America, Murrow gave a speech urging college students to go more interested in national and world affairs; this led to his election as president of the federation. Afterward earning his available's caste in 1930, he moved dorsum east to New York.

Murrow was banana manager of the Institute of International Instruction from 1932 to 1935 and served as assistant secretary of the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Strange Scholars, which helped prominent German scholars who had been dismissed from academic positions. He married Janet Huntington Brewster on March 12, 1935. Their son, Charles Casey Murrow, was born in the westward of London on November 6, 1945.

Career at CBS [edit]

Murrow joined CBS equally director of talks and teaching in 1935 and remained with the network for his entire career.^[2] CBS did non have news staff when Murrow joined, salve for announcer Bob Trout. Murrow's chore was to line up newsmakers who would appear on the network to talk about the issues of the day. But the onetime Washington Country spoken communication major was intrigued past Trout'south on-air delivery, and Trout gave Murrow tips on how to communicate finer on radio.

Murrow went to London in 1937 to serve as the manager of CBS's European operations. The position did not involve on-air reporting; his chore was persuading European figures to circulate over the CBS network, which was in direct competition with NBC'south two radio networks. During this time, he made frequent trips around Europe.^[6] In 1937, Murrow hired journalist William L. Shirer, and assigned him to a similar postal service on the continent. This marked the beginning of the "Murrow Boys" team of war reporters.^[7]

Radio [edit]

Murrow gained his first glimpse of fame during the March 1938 Anschluss, in which Adolf Hitler engineered the annexation of Austria by Nazi Federal republic of germany. While Murrow was in Poland arranging a circulate of children'due south choruses, he got word from Shirer of the annexation—and the fact that Shirer could not become the story out through Austrian country radio facilities. Murrow immediately sent Shirer to London, where he delivered an uncensored, eyewitness account of the Anschluss. Murrow then chartered the just transportation available, a 23-passenger aeroplane, to wing from Warsaw to Vienna so he could have over for Shirer.^[eight]

At the request of CBS management in New York, Murrow and Shirer put together a European News Roundup of reaction to the Anschluss, which brought correspondents from various European cities together for a unmarried circulate. On March xiii, 1938, the special was broadcast, hosted by Bob Trout in New York, including 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. Reporter Frank Gervasi, in Rome, was unable to discover a transmitter to broadcast reaction from the Italian capital but phoned his script to Shirer in London, who read it on the air.^{[9] : 116–120} Murrow reported live from Vienna, in the first on-the-scene news study of his career: "This is Edward Murrow speaking from Vienna.... It'south now most two:30 in the morning, and Herr Hitler has not yet arrived."

The broadcast was considered revolutionary at the time. Featuring multipoint, live reports transmitted by shortwave in the days earlier mod technology (and without each of the parties necessarily being able to hear one another), it came off almost flawlessly. The special became the footing for World News Roundup—broadcasting's oldest news series, which still runs each weekday morning and evening on the CBS Radio Network.

In September 1938, Murrow and Shirer were regular participants in CBS's coverage of the crunch over the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, which Hitler coveted for Frg 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 annotator H. V. Kaltenborn in New York saying, "Calling Ed Murrow ... come up in Ed Murrow."

During the post-obit twelvemonth, 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 U.s. in Dec 1940. Shirer would describe his Berlin experiences in his best-selling 1941 book Berlin Diary. When the war broke out in September 1939, Murrow stayed in London, and later provided alive radio broadcasts during the height of the Rush in London After Dark. These live, shortwave broadcasts relayed on CBS electrified radio audiences as news programming never had: previous state of war coverage had more often than not been provided past newspaper reports, forth with newsreels seen in moving picture theaters; earlier radio news programs had only featured an journalist in a studio reading wire service reports.

Globe War II [edit]

Murrow's reports, especially during the Blitz, began with what became his signature opening, "This is London," delivered with his vocal emphasis on the discussion this, followed by the hint of a pause before the balance of the phrase. His former spoken communication instructor, Ida Lou Anderson, suggested the opening as a more curtailed alternative to the one he had inherited from his predecessor at CBS Europe, César Saerchinger: "Hello, America. This is London calling." Murrow's phrase became synonymous with the newscaster and his network.^[ten]

Murrow achieved glory status as a upshot of his war reports. They led to his second famous catchphrase, at the stop of 1940, with every night's German language bombing raid, Londoners who might non necessarily see each other the next forenoon ofttimes closed their conversations with "adept nighttime, and good luck." The time to come British monarch, Princess Elizabeth, said as much to the Western world in a live radio address at the end of the yr, when she said "expert dark, and good luck to yous all". And so, at the end of one 1940 broadcast, Murrow ended his segment with "Good night, and good luck." Oral communication instructor Anderson insisted he stick with information technology, and some other Murrow catchphrase was born.

When Murrow returned to the U.South. in 1941, CBS hosted a dinner in his laurels on December 2 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. one,100 guests attended the dinner, which the network broadcast. Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a welcome-dorsum telegram, which was read at the dinner, and Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish gave an encomium that commented on the ability and intimacy of Murrow'due south wartime dispatches.^{[9] : 203–204} "You burned the city of London in our houses and nosotros felt the flames that burned information technology," MacLeish said. "Y'all laid the dead of London at our doors and we knew that the dead were our dead, were mankind's expressionless. You take destroyed the superstition that what is done beyond 3,000 miles of water is not really done at all."^[11]

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor occurred less than a week subsequently this speech, and the U.S. entered the war as a combatant on the Centrolineal side. Murrow flew on 25 Allied gainsay missions in Europe during the state of war,^{[nine] : 233} providing boosted 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 beneath him, derived in part from his higher grooming in speech, aided the effectiveness of his radio broadcasts.

As hostilities expanded, Murrow expanded CBS News in London into what Harrison Salisbury described as "the finest news staff anybody had always put together in Europe".^{[9] : 230} The result was a group of reporters acclaimed for their intellect and descriptive power, including Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, Howard 1000. Smith, Mary Marvin Breckinridge, Cecil Chocolate-brown, Richard C. Hottelet, Neb Downs, Winston Burdett, Charles Shaw, Ned Calmer, and Larry LeSueur. Many of them, Shirer included, were later dubbed "Murrow's Boys"—despite Breckinridge beingness a woman. In 1944, Murrow sought Walter Cronkite to take over for Nib Downs at the CBS Moscow bureau. Cronkite initially accepted, but after receiving a ameliorate offer from his electric current employer, United Press, he turned down the offer.^[12]

Murrow so closely cooperated with the British that in 1943 Winston Churchill offered to make him joint Manager-General of the BBC in charge of programming. Although he declined the job, during the war Murrow did fall in dear with Churchill'south daughter-in-law, Pamela,^{[9] : 221–223, 244 [xiii]} whose other American lovers included Averell Harriman, whom she married many years later. Pamela wanted Murrow to marry her, and he considered it; however, subsequently his wife gave nascency to their only child, Casey, he ended the affair.

Subsequently the war, Murrow recruited journalists such as Alexander Kendrick, David Schoenbrun, Daniel Schorr^[14] and Robert Pierpoint into the circumvolve of the Boys as a virtual "second generation", though the rails record of the original wartime crew gear up it apart.

On Apr 12, 1945, Murrow and Bill Shadel were the kickoff reporters at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He met emaciated survivors including Petr Zenkl, children with identification tattoos, and "bodies stacked up like cordwood" in the crematorium. In his report 3 days later, Murrow said:^{[9] : 248–252}

I pray you to believe what I take said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words.... If I've offended you past this rather mild account of Buchenwald, I'm not in the least lamentable.

—Excerpt from Murrow's Buchenwald report.^[15] April xv, 1945.

Postwar broadcasting career [edit]

Radio [edit]

In December 1945 Murrow reluctantly accepted William Due south. Paley's offer to become a vice president of the network and head of CBS News, and made his last news written report from London in March 1946.^{[9] : 259, 261} His presence and personality shaped the newsroom. After the war, he maintained close friendships with his previous hires, including members of the Murrow Boys. Younger colleagues at CBS became resentful toward this, viewing it equally preferential handling, and formed the "Murrow Isn't God Club." The club disbanded when Murrow asked if he could bring together.^{[16] [7]}

During Murrow'south tenure equally vice president, his relationship with Shirer ended in 1947 in one of the great confrontations of American broadcast journalism, when Shirer was fired by CBS. He said he resigned in the heat of an interview at the time, merely was actually terminated.^[17] The dispute began when J. B. Williams, maker of shaving soap, withdrew its sponsorship of Shirer'due south Sunday news show. CBS, of which Murrow was then vice president for public affairs, decided to "motility in a new direction," hired a new host, and let Shirer go. In that location are dissimilar versions of these events; Shirer's was not made public until 1990.

Shirer contended that the root of his troubles was the network and sponsor non standing by him because of his comments critical of the Truman Doctrine, every bit well as other comments that were considered outside of the mainstream. Shirer and his supporters felt he was being muzzled because of his views. Meanwhile, Murrow, and even some of Murrow's Boys, felt that Shirer was benumbed on his high reputation and non working difficult plenty to bolster his analyses with his own research.^{[ citation needed ]} Murrow and Shirer never regained their close friendship.

The episode hastened Murrow's desire to give upward his network vice presidency and render to newscasting, and it foreshadowed his own problems to come with his friend Paley, boss of CBS.

Murrow and Paley had become shut when the network master himself joined the war effort, setting upwardly Centrolineal radio outlets in Italy and North Africa. Later on the state of war, he would often go to Paley straight to settle whatsoever problems he had. "Ed Murrow was Pecker Paley's one genuine friend in CBS," noted Murrow biographer Joseph Persico.

Murrow returned to the air in September 1947, taking over the nightly seven:45 p.chiliad. ET newscast sponsored by Campbell'south Soup and anchored by his sometime friend and announcing motorbus Bob Trout. For the next several years Murrow focused on radio, and in addition to news reports he produced special presentations for CBS News Radio. In 1950, he narrated a one-half-60 minutes radio documentary chosen The Case of the Flight Saucer. Information technology offered a counterbalanced look at UFOs, a discipline of widespread interest at the time. Murrow interviewed both Kenneth Arnold and astronomer Donald Menzel.^{[xviii] [19]}

From 1951 to 1955, Murrow was the host of This I Believe, which offered ordinary people the opportunity to speak for 5 minutes on radio. He continued to nowadays daily radio news reports on the CBS Radio Network until 1959. He besides recorded a series of narrated "historical albums" for Columbia Records chosen I Can Hear It Now, which inaugurated his partnership with producer Fred West. Friendly. In 1950 the records evolved into a weekly CBS Radio show, Hear It At present, hosted past Murrow and co-produced past Murrow and Friendly.

Television and films [edit]

Every bit the 1950s began, Murrow began his television career by appearing in editorial "tailpieces" on the CBS Evening News and in the coverage of special events. This came despite his own misgivings about the new medium and its emphasis on pictures rather than ideas.

On November 18, 1951, Hear It Now moved to television and was re-christened See It Now. In the outset episode, Murrow explained: "This is an sometime team, trying to learn a new merchandise."^{[ix] : 354}

In 1952, Murrow narrated the political documentary Brotherhood for Peace, an information vehicle for the newly formed SHAPE detailing the effects of the Marshall Plan upon a war-torn Europe. It was written by William Templeton and produced by Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

In 1953, Murrow launched a second weekly TV evidence, a series of glory interviews entitled Person to Person.

Criticism of McCarthyism [edit]

Encounter It Now focused on a number of controversial problems in the 1950s, simply it is best remembered as the show that criticized McCarthyism and the Blood-red Scare, contributing, if not leading, to the political downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy had previously commended Murrow for his fairness in reporting.^[seven]

On June xv, 1953, Murrow hosted The Ford 50th Ceremony Show, broadcast simultaneously on NBC and CBS and seen by threescore million viewers. The broadcast closed with Murrow's commentary covering a variety of topics, including the danger of nuclear state of war against the backdrop of a mushroom cloud. Murrow also offered indirect criticism of McCarthyism, saying: "Nations take lost their freedom while preparing to defend it, and if we in this country misfile dissent with disloyalty, nosotros deny the right to be wrong." Forty years after the broadcast, tv set critic Tom Shales recalled the broadcast every bit both "a landmark in television" and "a milestone in the cultural life of the '50s".^[twenty]

On March 9, 1954, Murrow, Friendly, and their news team produced a half-hour See It Now special titled "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy".^[21] Murrow had considered making such a broadcast since Run across It Now debuted and was encouraged to past multiple colleagues including Nib Downs. Still, Friendly wanted to wait for the correct time to do and then.^[22] Murrow used excerpts from McCarthy's own speeches and proclamations to criticize the senator and indicate out episodes where he had contradicted himself. Murrow and Friendly paid for their own newspaper advertizement for the program; they were not immune to use CBS'due south coin for the publicity campaign or even use the CBS logo.

The circulate contributed to a nationwide backlash against McCarthy and is seen every bit a turning point in the history of television. It provoked tens of thousands of letters, telegrams, and phone calls to CBS headquarters, running fifteen to 1 in favor.^[23] In a retrospective produced for Biography, Friendly noted how truck drivers pulled up to Murrow on the street in subsequent days and shouted "Good show, Ed."

Murrow offered McCarthy the chance to respond to the criticism with a total half-hr on Run into It At present. McCarthy accepted the invitation and appeared on April 6, 1954. In his response, McCarthy rejected Murrow'southward criticism and defendant him of existence a communist sympathizer [McCarthy also defendant Murrow of beingness a fellow member of the Industrial Workers of the World which Murrow denied.^[24]]. McCarthy besides fabricated an entreatment to the public by attacking his detractors, stating:

Ordinarily, I would not have time out from the of import work at mitt to answer Murrow. However, in this case I feel justified in doing so because Murrow is a symbol, a leader, and the cleverest of the jackal pack which is e'er found at the pharynx of anyone who dares to expose private Communists and traitors.^[25]

Ultimately, McCarthy's rebuttal served only to farther decrease his already fading popularity.^[26] In the program following McCarthy'southward appearance, Murrow commented that the senator had "made no reference to any statements of fact that we made" and rebutted McCarthy's accusations against himself.^[24]

Edward R. Murrow at work with CBS, 1957

Subsequently tv set career [edit]

Murrow'south hard-hitting approach to the news, however, cost him influence in the world of tv set. Meet It At present occasionally scored high ratings (usually when it was tackling a particularly controversial subject area), but in full general, it did not score well on prime-time idiot box.

When a quiz show phenomenon began and took Goggle box by storm in the mid-1950s, Murrow realized the days of See Information technology Now every bit a weekly evidence were numbered. (Biographer Joseph Persico notes that Murrow, watching an early episode of The $64,000 Question air simply earlier his own Run into It Now, is said to have turned to Friendly and asked how long they expected to keep their fourth dimension slot).

See It At present was knocked out of its weekly slot in 1955 afterward sponsor Alcoa withdrew its advertising, but the prove remained as a series of occasional TV special news reports that defined goggle box documentary news coverage. Despite the show's prestige, CBS had difficulty finding a regular sponsor, since it aired intermittently in its new time slot (Sunday afternoons at 5 p.m. ET past the terminate of 1956) and could not develop a regular audience.

In 1956, Murrow took time to appear as the on-screen narrator of a special prologue for Michael Todd'due south ballsy production, Around the Earth in 80 Days. Although the prologue was more often than not omitted on telecasts of the film, information technology was included in home video releases.

Beginning in 1958, Murrow hosted a talk evidence entitled Small World that brought together political figures for one-to-one debates. In January 1959, he appeared on WGBH'south The Printing and the People with Louis Lyons, discussing the responsibilities of television journalism.^[27]

Murrow appeared as himself in a cameo in the British film production of Sink the Bismarck! in 1960, recreating some of the wartime broadcasts he did from London for CBS.^[28]

On September sixteen, 1962, he introduced educational television to New York City via the maiden broadcast of WNDT, which became WNET.

Fall from favor [edit]

Murrow's reporting brought him into repeated conflicts with CBS, especially its chairman William Paley, which Friendly summarized in his book Due to Circumstances Beyond our Control. See It Now ended entirely in the summer of 1958 afterward a disharmonism in Paley'southward part. Murrow had complained to Paley he could not continue doing the evidence if the network repeatedly provided (without consulting Murrow) equal time to subjects who felt wronged past the program.

According to Friendly, Murrow asked Paley if he was going to destroy Encounter It Now, into which the CBS chief executive had invested then much. Paley replied that he did not want a constant stomach ache every time Murrow covered a controversial subject.^[29]

Run across It Now 's final broadcast, "Sentinel on the Ruhr" (roofing postwar Deutschland), aired July 7, 1958. Three months later, on October 15, 1958, in a speech before the Radio and Goggle box News Directors Association in Chicago, Murrow blasted TV's emphasis on entertainment and commercialism at the expense of public interest in his "wires and lights" speech:

During the daily top viewing periods, television in the principal insulates united states from the realities of the world in which we live. If this state of affairs continues, we may alter an advertisement slogan to read: Look at present, pay after.^[30]

The harsh tone of the Chicago voice communication seriously damaged Murrow'south friendship with Paley, who felt Murrow was biting the hand that fed him. Before his death, Friendly said that the RTNDA (now Radio Television set Digital News Clan) accost did more than the McCarthy show to break the relationship betwixt the CBS dominate and his most respected announcer.

Some other contributing chemical element to Murrow's career decline was the ascent of a new crop of tv set journalists. Walter Cronkite'south arrival at CBS in 1950 marked the outset of a major rivalry which continued until Murrow resigned from the network in 1961. Murrow held a grudge dating back to 1944, when Cronkite turned down his offer to caput the CBS Moscow agency.^[31] With the Murrow Boys dominating the newsroom, Cronkite felt like an outsider soon after joining the network. Over time, as Murrow's career seemed on the decline and Cronkite's on the ascension, the two found it increasingly difficult to work together. Cronkite's demeanor was similar to reporters Murrow had hired; the difference beingness that Murrow viewed the Murrow Boys as satellites rather than potential rivals, every bit Cronkite seemed to be.^[32]

Throughout the 1950s the two got into heated arguments stoked in part by their professional person rivalry. At a dinner party hosted by Bill Downs at his home in Bethesda, Cronkite and Murrow argued over the role of sponsors, which Cronkite accepted as necessary and said "paid the rent." Murrow, who had long despised sponsors despite also relying on them, responded angrily. In another instance, an argument devolved into a "duel" in which the two drunkenly took a pair of antique dueling pistols and pretended to shoot at each other.^{[ix] : 527} Despite this, Cronkite went on to accept a long career as an anchor at CBS.

After the finish of See It At present, Murrow was invited by New York'southward Democratic Political party to run for the Senate. Paley was enthusiastic and encouraged him to do it. Harry Truman advised Murrow that his choice was betwixt being the junior senator from New York or being Edward R. Murrow, dear broadcast journalist, and hero to millions. He listened to Truman.^[v]

Afterwards contributing to the first episode of the documentary series CBS Reports, Murrow, increasingly under physical stress due to his conflicts and frustration with CBS, took a breather 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 let Murrow to again be his co-producer afterwards the sabbatical, but he was somewhen turned down.

Murrow'south last major TV milestone was reporting and narrating the CBS Reports installment Harvest of Shame, a written report on the plight of migrant farmworkers in the United States. Directed by Friendly and produced by David Lowe, it ran in Nov 1960, only after Thanksgiving.

Summary of television receiver work [edit]

• 1951–1958 – See It Now (host)
• 1953–1959 – Person to Person (host)
• 1958–1960 – Small World (moderator and producer)

United States Data Agency (USIA) Manager [edit]

External audio
National Press Society Luncheon Speakers, Edward R. Murrow, May 24, 1961, ane:04:00, Murrow speaks starting at 7:25 virtually USIA, Library of Congress[33]

Murrow resigned from CBS to accept a position as head of the United States Information Agency, parent of the Voice of America, in January 1961. President John F. Kennedy offered Murrow the position, which he viewed as "a timely souvenir." CBS president Frank Stanton had reportedly been offered the chore but declined, suggesting that Murrow exist offered the job.

His engagement as head of the United states of america Information Bureau was seen every bit 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 reappointed at least one of McCarthy's targets, Reed Harris.^[34] Murrow insisted on a high level of presidential admission, telling Kennedy, "If you lot want me in on the landings, I'd ameliorate be there for the takeoffs." Nonetheless, the early effects of cancer kept him from taking an active part in the Bay of Pigs Invasion planning. He did advise the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis only was ill at the time the president was assassinated. Murrow was fatigued into Vietnam because the USIA was assigned to convince reporters in Saigon that the government of Ngo Dinh Diem embodied the hopes and dreams of the Vietnamese people. Murrow knew the Diem government did no such thing.^[35] Asked to stay on by President Lyndon B. Johnson, Murrow did so simply resigned in early 1964, citing disease. Earlier his departure, his last recommendation was of Barry Zorthian to exist master spokesman for the U.S. regime in Saigon, Vietnam.^[36]

Murrow's celebrity gave the agency a higher contour, which may have helped it earn more funds from Congress. His transfer to a governmental position—Murrow was a member of the National Security Quango, a position for life—led to an embarrassing incident soon later taking the job; he asked the BBC not to prove his documentary "Harvest of Shame," in gild not to damage the European view of the USA; however, the BBC refused as it had bought the program in good religion.^[37] British newspapers delighted in the irony of the state of affairs, with one Daily Sketch writer maxim: "if Murrow builds up America as skillfully as he tore information technology to pieces last night, the propaganda state of war is as proficient as won."^[38]

Co-ordinate to some biographers,^{[ who? ]} about the end of Murrow's life, when wellness bug forced him to resign from the USIA, Paley reportedly invited Murrow to return to CBS. Murrow, perchance knowing he could not piece of work, declined Paley's offer.

Decease [edit]

A chain smoker throughout his life, Murrow was almost never seen without his trademark Camel cigarette. It was reported that he smoked between lx and sixty-five cigarettes a 24-hour interval, equivalent to roughly three packs.^[39] Come across It At present was the commencement tv program to accept a study about the connection betwixt smoking and cancer. During the prove, Murrow said, "I doubt I could spend a half 60 minutes without a cigarette with any comfort or ease." He adult lung cancer and lived for two years after an operation to remove his left lung.

Murrow died at his home in Pawling, New York, on April 27, 1965, two days after his 57th birthday.^[40] His colleague and friend Eric Sevareid said of him, "He was a shooting star; and we will live in his afterglow a very long fourth dimension." CBS carried a memorial program, which included a rare on-camera appearance past William Due south. Paley, founder of CBS.

Honors [edit]

• Murrow was repeatedly honored with the Peabody Laurels, jointly and individually.^[41]
• In 1947 Murrow received the Alfred I. duPont Award.^[42]
• In 1964, Murrow was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1964: Paul White Accolade, Radio Television Digital News Association^[43]
• He was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on March 5, 1965, and received similar honors from the governments of Belgium, France, and Sweden.^{[ commendation needed ]}
• He received "Special" George Polk Awards in 1951 and 1952.^{[ commendation needed ]}
• In 1967, he was awarded the Grammy Award for All-time Spoken Word Anthology for his Edward R. Murrow – A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I The War Years.^{[ citation needed ]}
• The Edward R. Murrow Honor, given annually by the Radio Television Digital News Clan is named in his honor; it is presented for "outstanding achievement in electronic journalism"
• The Edward R. Murrow College of Advice at Washington Land University is named in his accolade.
• The Edward R. Murrow Park in Washington, D.C. is named in his memory.
• Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, New York is named after him.
• Murrow Boulevard is a large thoroughfare in the center of Greensboro, Northward Carolina.^{[ citation needed ]}
• The last remaining Vocalism of America circulate transmitting site in the U.s.a., the Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station, is named afterwards him.
• A statue of native Edward R. Murrow stands on the grounds of the Greensboro Historical Museum.^[44]
• In 1984, Murrow was posthumously inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.^{[ citation needed ]}
• In 1996, Murrow was ranked No. 22 on TV Guide 's "l Greatest Goggle box Stars of All Time" listing.^[45]
• The Edward R. Murrow Park in Pawling, New York was named for him.^{[ citation needed ]}

Legacy [edit]

Murrow's record at the radio studios of Kol Yisrael in Jerusalem, 2016

After Murrow's death, the Edward R. Murrow Heart of Public Diplomacy was established at Tufts Academy'southward Fletcher School of Constabulary and Diplomacy. Murrow'southward library and selected artifacts are housed in the Murrow Memorial Reading Room that likewise serves as a special seminar classroom and meeting room for Fletcher activities. Murrow's papers are available for inquiry at the Digital Collections and Archives at Tufts, which has a website for the collection and makes many of the digitized papers available through the Tufts Digital Library.

The center awards Murrow fellowships to mid-career professionals who engage in research at Fletcher, ranging from the affect of the New Globe Data Social club fence in the international media during the 1970s and 1980s to electric current telecommunication policies and regulations. Many distinguished journalists, diplomats, and policymakers take spent time at the center, among them David Halberstam, who worked on his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1972 volume, The Best and the Brightest, as a writer-in-residence.

Veteran journalist Crocker Snow Jr. was named managing director of the Murrow Center in 2005.

In 1971 the RTNDA (Now Radio Boob tube Digital News Association) established the Edward R. Murrow Awards, honoring outstanding achievement in the field of electronic journalism. There are iv other awards also known as the "Edward R. Murrow Honour", including the one at Washington State Academy.

In 1973, Murrow's alma mater, Washington State University, dedicated its expanded communication facilities the Edward R. Murrow Communications Middle and established the annual Edward R. Murrow Symposium.^[46] In 1990, the WSU Department of Communications became the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication,^[47] followed on July i, 2008, with the school condign the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication.^[48] Veteran international journalist Lawrence Pintak is the college's founding dean.

Several movies were filmed, either completely or partly about Murrow. In 1986, HBO broadcast the made-for-cable biographical pic, Murrow, with Daniel J. Travanti in the championship role, and Robert Vaughn in a supporting office. In the 1999 film The Insider, Lowell Bergman, a television producer for the CBS news magazine lx Minutes, played by Al Pacino, is confronted past Mike Wallace, played by Christopher Plummer, after an exposé of the tobacco industry is edited down to suit CBS management and and so, itself, gets exposed in the press for the self-censorship. Wallace passes Bergman an editorial printed in The New York Times, which accuses CBS of betraying the legacy of Edward R. Murrow. Expert Night, and Skillful Luck is a 2005 Oscar-nominated film directed, co-starring and co-written by George Clooney about the conflict between Murrow and Joseph McCarthy on Run into It At present. Murrow is portrayed by actor David Strathairn, who received an Oscar nomination. In the film, Murrow'due south conflict with CBS boss William Paley occurs immediately after his skirmish with McCarthy.

In 2003, Fleetwood Mac released their album Say You Will, featuring the rails "Murrow Turning Over in His Grave". On the track, Lindsey Buckingham reflects on current news media and claims Ed Murrow would be shocked at the bias and sensationalism displayed past reporters in the new century if he was alive.

Works [edit]

Filmography [edit]

• Around the World in 80 Days (1956) as Prologue Narrator
• The Lost Class of '59 (1959) as himself
• Montgomery Speaks His Listen (1959) as himself
• Sink the Bismarck! (1960) as himself (final film function)
• Murrow (1986) made-for-cable biographical picture directed by Jack Gilded, originally broadcast past HBO
• Adept Dark, and Good Luck, 2005 historical drama portraying the conflict between Murrow and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, peculiarly relating to the anti-Communist Senator's actions with the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, directed past George Clooney

Books [edit]

• Rise of the Vice Presidency by Irving Grand. Williams, introduced by Edward R. Murrow (Washington: Public Affairs Printing, 1956)

References [edit]

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2. ^ ^{a b} Baker, Anne Pimlott (2004), "Murrow, Edward Roscoe (1908–1965)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed December 7, 2010
3. ^ Hattikudur, Mangesh (January 28, 2008). "What Richard Nixon and James Dean had in common". CNN. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
4. ^ "Edward R. Murrow, Broadcaster And Ex-Chief of The statesI.A., Dies". The New York Times. April 28, 1965. Retrieved August ten, 2016.
5. ^ ^{a b} Edwards, B. 2004, Edward R. Murrow and the Nascence of Broadcast Journalism.
6. ^ Russell, Norton (October 1940). "They Also Serve: Edward R. Murrow" (PDF). Radio and Goggle box Mirror. Vol. 14, no. vi. pp. 19, 68–69. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
7. ^ ^{a b c} Wertenbaker, Charles (Dec 26, 1953). "The World On His Back". The New Yorker . Retrieved July 28, 2017.
8. ^ Russell, Norton (October 1940). "They Also Serve: Edward R. Murrow" (PDF). Radio and Goggle box Mirror. Vol. 14, no. six. p. 68. Retrieved Baronial ten, 2016.
9. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Sperber, A. Chiliad. (1998). Murrow, His Life and Times. Fordham Academy Press. ISBN0-8232-1881-3.
10. ^ Kit Oldham (Oct 26, 2005). "Edward R. Murrow graduates from Washington State College on June two, 1930". HistoryLink.org. Retrieved August 11, 2012.
11. ^ "This — is London1". The Attic . Retrieved Oct 19, 2018.
12. ^ Persico, Joseph (November 1988). Edward R. Murrow: An American Original . McGraw-Hill. pp. 314–315. ISBN0070494800.
13. ^ Cull, Nicholas John (1995). Selling State of war: The British Propaganda Campaign against American "Neutrality" in World War II . pp. 192. ISBN0-19-508566-three.
14. ^ Hershey Jr., Robert D. (July 23, 2010). "Daniel Schorr, Journalist, Dies at 93". The New York Times . Retrieved July 23, 2010.
15. ^ "Buchenwald: Study from Edward R. Murrow". Jewish Virtual Library . Retrieved July 28, 2017.
16. ^ Cuthbertson, Keith (May i, 2015). Books on Google Play A Circuitous Fate: William 50. Shirer and the American Century. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN978-0773597242.
17. ^ William L. Shirer (1990). 20th Century Journeying: A Native'south Return. Petty Brown.
18. ^ "The Crucial Decade: Voices of the Postwar Era, 1945-1954". National Archives. National Archives. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
19. ^ Edward R. Murrow (April 7, 1950). "The Case of the Flying Saucer". Special News Report. CBS Radio News.
20. ^ "Ford's 50th anniversary prove was milestone of '50s culture". Palm Beach Daily News. December 26, 1993. p. B3 – via Newspapers.com.
21. ^ "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy". Run across It Now. CBS. March 9, 1954. Retrieved November 23, 2008.
22. ^ Sperber (1998). Murrow, His Life and Times. New York: Fordham University Press. pp. 403–404.
23. ^ Adams, Val (March xi, 1954). "PRAISE POURS IN ON MURROW Testify". The New York Times. p. 19.
24. ^ ^{a b} "Response to Senator Joe McCarthy on CBS' See It At present". April 13, 1954. Retrieved February 9, 2016.
25. ^ "Prosecution of E. R. Murrow on CBS' "See It Now"". Meet It At present. CBS. April 6, 1954. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
26. ^ "Edward R. Murrow", American Masters, PBS. Retrieved March 28, 2008.
27. ^ "The Press and the People: The Responsibilities of Telly, Role II". Open Vault from WGBH. WGBH Media Library and Archives. Jan 24, 1959. Retrieved Baronial 10, 2016.
28. ^ Sink the Bismarck! at IMDb.
29. ^ Smith, Sally Bedell (November 1990). In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley : The Legendary Tycoon and His Brilliant Circle . Simon & Schuster. ISBN978-0-671-61735-vi.
30. ^ "Edward R. Murrow Speech". Radio-Television News Directors Association. October 15, 1958. Retrieved Baronial 10, 2016.
31. ^ Gay, Timothy M (2013). Assignment to Hell: The War Confronting Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle. NAL Caliber Trade. p. 528. ISBN978-0451417152.
32. ^ Persico, Joseph E. (November 1988). Edward R. Murrow: An American Original . McGraw-Colina. pp. 314–315. ISBN0070494800.
33. ^ "National Press Guild Luncheon Speakers, Edward R. Murrow, May 24, 1961". Library of Congress. Retrieved Oct 20, 2016.
34. ^ "Reed Harris Dies. Did Battle With Sen. Joseph McCarthy". The New York Times. October 21, 1982. Retrieved March 22, 2008. Reed Harris, 72, a writer, publisher, and former State Department official who was driven from government for a time later a highly publicized confrontation with the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.), died Oct. 15 at Holy Cross Infirmary. He had a middle ailment and Alzheimer'southward affliction.
35. ^ Edwards, Bob. Edward R. Murrow and the Nascency of Broadcast Journalism. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004. Print.
36. ^ Jurek Martin (January xv, 2011). "US spokesman who fronted Saigon's theatre of war". Financial Times. ft.com. Retrieved August x, 2011.
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38. ^ "Murrow Tries to Halt Controversial TV Film". The Victoria Advocate. Associated Press. March 24, 1961. p. 9. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
39. ^ Robert Fifty. Hilliard, Michael C. Keith (2005). The circulate century and beyond. Elsevier. p. 137. ISBN978-0-240-80570-two. And all the while, as he fought for social justice and understanding, he inhaled the Camel cigarettes that would kill him'
40. ^ Obituary Variety, April 28, 1965, p. 60.
41. ^ "George Foster Peabody Accolade Winners" (PDF). University of Georgia. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 26, 2011. Retrieved August 11, 2012.
42. ^ All duPont–Columbia Award Winners Archived August xiv, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Columbia Journalism School. Retrieved August 6, 2013.
43. ^ "Paul White Award". Radio Tv Digital News Association. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
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45. ^ TV Guide Book of Lists . Running Press. 2007. pp. 188. ISBN978-0-7624-3007-9.
46. ^ Ryan Thomas. "Murrow College History 1973–1980". Washington State Academy. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved Baronial 11, 2012.
47. ^ Ryan Thomas. "Murrow College History 1980–1990". Washington State University. Archived from the original on March eight, 2012. Retrieved August 11, 2012.
48. ^ "Austen Named to Lead Murrow College of Communication" (Press release). Washington Country Academy. June xxx, 2008. Archived from the original on October 1, 2011. Retrieved August 11, 2012.

External links and references [edit]

• Appearances on C-Bridge
• Edward R. Murrow at IMDb
• The Life and Piece of work of Edward R. Murrow: an archives exhibit, Digital Collections and Archives, Tufts University
• Murrow Papers at Mount Holyoke Higher
• Edward R. Murrow at Find a Grave

Biographies and manufactures [edit]

• Edward R. Murrow bibliography via UC Berkeley library
• New York Times obituary, April 28, 1965
• "Edward R. Murrow". Journalist, Radio Broadcaster. Notice a Grave. April 27, 1965. Retrieved September three, 2010.
• Museum of Circulate Communications, biography
• Edward R. Murrow and the Fourth dimension of His Time past Joseph Wershba, CBS News writer, editor and contributor, commencement in 1944; producer of 60 Minutes (1968–1988)
• State Library of North Carolina, biography
• Block, Maxine; Trow, East. Mary (1970). "Murrow, Edward R.". Current Biography: Who's News and Why, 1942. H.W. Wilson. ISBN0824204794.
• Cloud, Stanley; Olson, Lynne (1996). The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Circulate Journalism. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN0395680840.
• Edwards, Bob (2010) [2004]. Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism. Turning Points in History. Vol. 12. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN978-1-118-03999-1.
• Kendrick, Alexander (1969). Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow. J. Thousand. Paring & Sons. ISBN046003958X.
• Lichello, Robert (1971). Edward R. Murrow: Broadcaster of Backbone. Charlottesville, N.Y.: Samhar Press. ISBN978-0-87157-504-3.
• Murrow, Edward R.; Bliss, Edward (1967). In search of light; the broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938–1961 . New York: Alfred A. Knopf. OCLC 743433.
• "Murrow, Edward R.". American National Biography: Mosler–Parish. Vol. 16. Oxford Academy Press. 1999. ISBN0195206355.
• Olson, Lynne (2010). Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest 60 minutes. Random Business firm. ISBN978-1-58836-982-half dozen.
• Sperber, A. 1000. (1998) [1986]. Murrow, His Life and Times. Fordham University Printing. ISBN978-0-8232-1882-0.

Programs [edit]

• Edward R. Murrow at the National Radio Hall of Fame
• Original This I Believe transcript, 1951.
• Murrow radio broadcasts on Earthstation one, Selected Globe War 2 broadcasts from London and Germany

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