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Edward R. Murrow KBE (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio broadcasts for the news division of the Columbia Broadcasting System during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States. During the war he assembled a team of foreign correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys.
A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of reports that 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's greatest figures, noting his honesty and integrity in delivering the news.
Murrow was born Egbert Roscoe Murrow at Polecat Creek, near Greensboro, in Guilford County, North Carolina, the son of Roscoe C. Murrow and Ethel F. (née Lamb) Murrow. His parents were Quakers. He was the youngest of three brothers and was a "mixture of English, Scottish, Irish and German" descent. The firstborn, Roscoe Jr., lived only a few hours. Lacey was four years old and Dewey was two years old when Murrow was born. 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.
Edward is an English and Polish given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon form Ēadweard, composed of the elements ead "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and weard "guardian, protector".
The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte.
Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo, German and Dutch Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy, Woody and Ned. Edward can be abbreviated as Edw.
See It Now was an American newsmagazine and documentary series broadcast by CBS from 1951 to 1958. It was created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, Murrow being the host of the show. From 1952 to 1957, See It Now won four Emmy Awards and was nominated three other times. It also won a 1952 Peabody Award, which cited its
The show was an adaptation of radio's Hear It Now, also produced by Murrow and Friendly. Its first episode, on November 18, 1951, opened with the first live simultaneous coast-to-coast TV transmission from both the East Coast (the Brooklyn Bridge and New York Harbor) and the West Coast (the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and San Francisco Bay), as reporters on both sides of the North American continent gave live reports to Murrow, who was sitting in the control room on CBS' Studio 41 with director Don Hewitt.
One of the most popular of the See It Now reports was a 1952 broadcast entitled "Christmas in Korea", when Murrow spoke with American soldiers assigned to the United Nations combat forces.
Edward R. Murrow's most powerful anti-McCarthy broadcast, March 1954. This is the one that took McCarthy down! This is Murrow's most famous, and most inspiring, 2-min speech.
"See It Now" on CBS - March 9, 1954. 23:18 : Earlier the Senator asked, "Upon what meat does this, our Caesar, feed?" Had he looked three lines earlier in Shakespeare's Caesar, he would have found this line, which is not altogether inappropriate: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." No one familiar with the history of this country can deny that congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating, but the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, and the junior senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. His primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind as between the internal and the external threats of communism. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember alway...
August 24, 1940 from Trafalgar Square. This is one of Murrow's most famous broadcasts, where he uses his microphone to pick up the sound of footsteps. Transcript: http://billdownscbs.blogspot.com/2014/09/1940-murrow-reports-on-battle-of-britain.html
See It Now, April 13, 1954 on CBS
CBS report by Edward R. Murrow from a rooftop in London during the Blitz, 22 September 1940. Transcript: http://billdownscbs.blogspot.com/2015/09/1940-edward-r-murrow-from-london.html
April 15, 1945. "If I have offended you by this rather mild account of Buchenwald, I am not in the least sorry." - Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow's speech to the National Association of Broadcasters Convention in 1962, while he was the head of the United States Information Agency.
Full text: http://billdownscbs.blogspot.com/2014/08/1958-murrows-speech-before-rtnda.html This is Edward R. Murrow's 1958 famous speech to the Radio and Television News Directors Association.
Marilyn Monroe - Person to Person - Edward R. Murrow - April 8, 1955 Marilyn Monroe 1926-1962 Edward R. Murrow 1908-1965 Milton H. Greene 1922-1985 --------------------------------------- A wonderful website is Marilyn Monroe in English and French. Un beau site sur Marilyn Monroe en anglais et en français. http://www.cursumperficio.net/Index.html ---
Edward R. Murrow visits with Bette Davis and Gary Merrill from their home in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, discussing life in New England.
See It Now, April 13, 1954 on CBS
April 6, 1954, "See It Now" on CBS. This is Senator Joseph McCarthy's televised response to Edward R. Murrow's famous See It Now broadcast, which aired a month earlier. Murrow offered McCarthy a chance to respond in the original broadcast. Video located by Noah C. Cline.
Great Quality footage. Interviewed by Edward R Murrow on the 8th of April 1955
Edward R. Murrow interviews Nat "King" Cole who introduces Ed to a pair of princesses, "Sweetie" and "Cookie." Nat's a hi-fi bug, and Ed expects to be entertained with at least one tune from his new album.
In 1959, legendary broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow featured Vassar president Sarah Gibson Blanding on his "Person to Person" television show. According to the Museum of Broadcast Communications, Murrow's aim on "Person to Person" was to "revive the art of conversation." Twice a week, he interviewed public figures—artists, writers, politicians, scientists, athletes, industrialists, eduators—intentionally avoiding politics and current events and focusing instead on their everyday lives. We don't know how or why he chose Blanding as one of his subjects, but the interview offers an interesting and amusing glimpse into the character of Vassar's sixth president. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections Library at Vassar College
Maria Callas: Person to Person interview with Ed Murrow (New York, Jan. 24, 1958) CBS Television, at Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Catalogue: MC-VID-653 www.mariacallasmuseum.org
Journalist Edward R. Murrow interviews Bing Crosby and his son Lindsay on "Person to Person" from December 3, 1954. For more on Bing, visit www.BingCrosby.com
Edward R. Murrow's most powerful anti-McCarthy broadcast, March 1954. This is the one that took McCarthy down! This is Murrow's most famous, and most inspiring, 2-min speech.
"See It Now" on CBS - March 9, 1954. 23:18 : Earlier the Senator asked, "Upon what meat does this, our Caesar, feed?" Had he looked three lines earlier in Shakespeare's Caesar, he would have found this line, which is not altogether inappropriate: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." No one familiar with the history of this country can deny that congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating, but the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, and the junior senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. His primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind as between the internal and the external threats of communism. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember alway...
August 24, 1940 from Trafalgar Square. This is one of Murrow's most famous broadcasts, where he uses his microphone to pick up the sound of footsteps. Transcript: http://billdownscbs.blogspot.com/2014/09/1940-murrow-reports-on-battle-of-britain.html
See It Now, April 13, 1954 on CBS
CBS report by Edward R. Murrow from a rooftop in London during the Blitz, 22 September 1940. Transcript: http://billdownscbs.blogspot.com/2015/09/1940-edward-r-murrow-from-london.html
April 15, 1945. "If I have offended you by this rather mild account of Buchenwald, I am not in the least sorry." - Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow's speech to the National Association of Broadcasters Convention in 1962, while he was the head of the United States Information Agency.
Full text: http://billdownscbs.blogspot.com/2014/08/1958-murrows-speech-before-rtnda.html This is Edward R. Murrow's 1958 famous speech to the Radio and Television News Directors Association.
"See It Now" on CBS - March 9, 1954. 23:18 : Earlier the Senator asked, "Upon what meat does this, our Caesar, feed?" Had he looked three lines earlier in Shakespeare's Caesar, he would have found this line, which is not altogether inappropriate: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." No one familiar with the history of this country can deny that congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating, but the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, and the junior senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. His primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind as between the internal and the external threats of communism. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember alway...
MYSTERY GUEST: Edward R Murrow PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Hal Block ---------------------------------- Join our Facebook group for WML-- great discussions, photos, etc, and great people! https://www.facebook.com/groups/728471287199862/ To stay up to date with postings, please consider supporting the WML channel by subscribing. The WML channel already contains the complete CBS series, with new videos still being added on the weekends. http://www.youtube.com/channel/UChPE75Fvvl1HmdAsO7Nzb8w?sub_confirmation=1
November 2, 1952. Featuring Edward R. Murrow and Bill Downs.
Full text: http://billdownscbs.blogspot.com/2014/08/1958-murrows-speech-before-rtnda.html This is Edward R. Murrow's 1958 famous speech to the Radio and Television News Directors Association.
Good Night, and Good Luck. is a 2005 American drama film directed by George Clooney. About the film: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008Q0BPUU/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=B008Q0BPUU&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=139bb8207b0d1ad9ec7cce7948d37c89 The film was written by Clooney and Grant Heslov, both of whom also act in the film, and portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, especially relating to the anti-Communist Senator's actions with the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The movie, although released in black and white, was filmed on color film stock but on a grayscale set, and was color corrected to black and white during post-production. It fo...
April 6, 1954, "See It Now" on CBS. This is Senator Joseph McCarthy's televised response to Edward R. Murrow's famous See It Now broadcast, which aired a month earlier. Murrow offered McCarthy a chance to respond in the original broadcast. Video located by Noah C. Cline.
Daniel Louis Schorr (August 31, 1916 – July 23, 2010) was an American journalist who covered world news for more than 60 years. He was most recently a Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio (NPR). Schorr won three Emmy Awards for his television journalism. Following several years as a stringer, in 1953 he joined CBS News as one of the recruits of Edward R. Murrow (becoming part of the later generation of Murrow's Boys). In 1955, with the post-Stalin thaw in the Soviet Union, he received accreditation to open a CBS bureau in Moscow. In June 1957, he obtained an exclusive interview with Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Communist party chief. It aired on CBS's Face the Nation, Schorr's first television interview. Schorr left the Soviet Union later that year, because of Soviet censorship ...
Edward R. Murrow's speech to the National Association of Broadcasters Convention in 1962, while he was the head of the United States Information Agency.