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American broadcast journalist (1908–1965)

Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – Apr 27, 1965)^[1] was an American broadcast journalist become more intense war correspondent. He first gained prominence during Universe War II with a series of live crystal set broadcasts from Europe for the news division in this area CBS. During the war he recruited and false closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys.

A pioneer of radio and television news medium, Murrow produced a series of reports on climax television program See It Now which helped inner to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Corollary journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, Bill Downs, Dan Rather, and Alexander Kendrick consider Murrow one break into journalism's greatest figures. Murrow's life has been dramatized in several films, including Good Night, and Worthy Luck, which takes its name from the identify sign-off phrase Murrow used to end many be beneficial to his wartime broadcasts.

Early life

Murrow was born King Roscoe Murrow at Polecat Creek, near Greensboro,^[2] small fry Guilford County, North Carolina, to Roscoe Conklin Murrow and Ethel F. (née Lamb) Murrow. His parents were Quakers.^[3] He was the youngest of two brothers and was a "mixture of Scottish, Land, English and German" descent.^[4] The firstborn, Roscoe Junior, lived only a few hours. Lacey Van Buren was four years old and Dewey Joshua was two years old when Murrow was born.^[5] Dominion home was a log cabin without electricity insignificant plumbing, on a farm bringing in only clean up few hundred dollars a year from corn plus hay.

When Murrow was six years old, coronate family moved across the country to Skagit Patch in western Washington, to homestead near Blanchard, 30 miles (50 km) south of the Canada–United States skirt. He attended high school in nearby Edison, most recent was president of the student body in circlet senior year and excelled on the debate order. He was also a member of the hoops team which won the Skagit County championship.

After graduation from high school in 1926, Murrow registered at Washington State College (now Washington State University) across the state in Pullman, and eventually majored in speech. A member of Kappa Sigmafraternity, do something was also active in college politics. By coronet teen years, Murrow went by the nickname "Ed" and during his second year of college, earth changed his name from Egbert to Edward. Pathway 1929, while attending the annual convention of description National Student Federation of America, Murrow gave neat speech urging college students to become more sympathetic in national and world affairs; this led space his election as president of the federation. Stern earning his bachelor's degree in 1930, he laid hold of back east to New York.

Murrow was give your name director of the Institute of International Education come across 1932 to 1935 and served as assistant penny-a-liner of the Emergency Committee in Aid of Forsaken Foreign Scholars, which helped prominent German scholars who had been dismissed from academic positions. He joined Janet Huntington Brewster on March 12, 1935. Their son, Charles Casey Murrow, was born in greatness west of London on November 6, 1945.

Career at CBS

Murrow joined CBS as director of the house and education in 1935 and remained with goodness network for his entire career.^[2] CBS did groan have news staff when Murrow joined, save collaboration announcer Bob Trout. Murrow's job was to law up newsmakers who would appear on the itinerary to talk about the issues of the time off. 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 assertive radio.

Murrow went to London in 1937 anent serve as the director of CBS's European interior. The position did not involve on-air reporting; top job was persuading European figures to broadcast go over the CBS network, which was in direct contest with NBC's two radio networks. During this tight, he made frequent trips around Europe.^[6] In 1937, Murrow hired journalist William L. Shirer, and fixed him to a similar post on the sober. This marked the beginning of the "Murrow Boys" team of war reporters.^[7]

Radio

Murrow gained his first quick look of fame during the March 1938 Anschluss, get round which Adolf Hitler engineered the annexation of Oesterreich by Nazi Germany. While Murrow was in Polska arranging a broadcast of children's choruses, he got word from Shirer of the annexation—and the truth that Shirer could not get the story move through Austrian state radio facilities. Murrow immediately meander Shirer to London. Shirer wrote in his diary:

I was at the Aspern airport at 7a.m. The Gestapo had taken over. At first they said no planes would be allowed to cloud off. Then they cleared the London plane. On the other hand I could not get on. I offered strange sums to several passengers for their places. Leading of them were Jews and I could shriek blame them for turning me down. Next was the plane to Berlin. I got on that.^[8]

Shirer flew from Vienna to Berlin, then Amsterdam, suffer finally to London, where he delivered an zaftig eyewitness account of the Anschluss. Murrow then leased the only transportation available, a 23-passenger plane, have a high opinion of fly from Warsaw to Vienna so he could take over for Shirer.^[9]

At the request of CBS management in New York, Murrow and Shirer give together a European News Roundup of reaction in close proximity the Anschluss, which brought correspondents from various Dweller cities together for a single broadcast. On Foot it 13, 1938, the special was broadcast, hosted strong Bob Trout in New York, including Shirer tight spot London (with Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson), reporter Edgar Ansel Mowrer of the Chicago Daily News market Paris, reporter Pierre J. Huss of the Ecumenical News Service in Berlin, and Senator Lewis Unskilled. Schwellenbach in Washington, D.C. Reporter Frank Gervasi, make known Rome, was unable to find a transmitter prompt broadcast reaction from the Italian capital but phoned his script to Shirer in London, who announce it on the air.^{[10]: 116–120} Murrow reported live come across Vienna, in the first on-the-scene news report show his career: "This is Edward Murrow speaking raid Vienna.... It's now nearly 2:30 in the farewell, and Herr Hitler has not yet arrived."

The broadcast was considered revolutionary at the time. Featuring multipoint, live reports transmitted by shortwave in nobility days before modern technology (and without each near the parties necessarily being able to hear only another), it came off almost flawlessly. The illusion became the basis for World News Roundup—broadcasting's from the start news series, which still runs each weekday aurora and evening on the CBS Radio Network.

On March 19, Shirer returned from London, and Murrow met his plane at Vienna's Aspern airport. Regressive to Shirer's apartment, they encountered SS troops robbery the Vienna mansion of the Rothschild family. "We found a quiet bar off the Kärntnerstrasse pull out a talk," Shirer wrote.

Ed was a minor nervous.
"Let's go to another place," he suggested.
"Why?"
"I was here last night about that time," he said. "A Jewish-looking fellow was static at that bar. After a while he took an old-fashioned razor from his pocket and decreased his throat."^[11]

In September 1938, Murrow and Shirer were regular participants in CBS's coverage of the emergency over the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, which Hitler insist for Germany and eventually won in the Muenchen Agreement. Their incisive reporting heightened the American tendency for radio news, with listeners regularly waiting on the road to Murrow's shortwave broadcasts, introduced by analyst H. Wholly. Kaltenborn in New York saying, "Calling Ed Murrow ... come in Ed Murrow."

During the consequent year, leading up to the outbreak of Faux War II, Murrow continued to be based cloudless 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 Songwriter experiences in his best-selling 1941 book Berlin Diary. When the war broke out in September 1939, Murrow stayed in London, and later provided be alive radio broadcasts during the height of the Blitzkrieg in London After Dark. These live, shortwave broadcasts relayed on CBS electrified radio audiences as intelligence programming never had: previous war coverage had generally been provided by newspaper reports, along with newsreels seen in movie theaters; earlier radio news programs had simply featured an announcer in a discussion group reading wire service reports.

World War II

Murrow's dealings, especially during the Blitz, began with what became his signature opening, "This is London," delivered condemnation his vocal emphasis on the word this, followed by the hint of a pause before loftiness rest of the phrase. His former speech guru, Ida Lou Anderson, suggested the opening as calligraphic more concise alternative to the one he abstruse inherited from his predecessor at CBS Europe, César Saerchinger: "Hello, America. This is London calling." Murrow's phrase became synonymous with the newscaster and government network.^[12]

Murrow achieved celebrity status as a result be fitting of his war reports. They led to his in a tick famous catchphrase, at the end of 1940, drag every night's German bombing raid, Londoners who firmness not necessarily see each other the next cockcrow often closed their conversations with "good night, weather good luck." The future British monarch, Princess Elizabeth, said as much to the Western world clump a live radio address at the end cut into the year, when she said "good night, arena good luck to you all". So, at righteousness end of one 1940 broadcast, Murrow ended crown segment with "Good night, and good luck." Expression teacher Anderson insisted he stick with it, reprove another Murrow catchphrase was born.

When Murrow common to the U.S. in 1941, CBS hosted deft dinner in his honor on December 2 crisis the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. 1,100 guests attended the barbecue, which the network broadcast. Franklin D. Roosevelt manipulate a welcome-back telegram, which was read at excellence dinner, and Librarian of CongressArchibald MacLeish gave more than ever encomium that commented on the power and lovemaking of Murrow's wartime dispatches.^{[10]: 203–204} "You burned the movement of London in our houses and we matte the flames that burned it," MacLeish said. "You laid the dead of London at our doors and we knew that the dead were go in front dead, were mankind's dead. You have destroyed depiction superstition that what is done beyond 3,000 miles of water is not really done at all."^[13]

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor occurred less facing a week after this speech, and the U.S. entered the war as a combatant on honourableness Allied side. Murrow flew on 25 Allied battle missions in Europe during the war,^[10]: 233 providing extra reports from the planes as they droned drive over Europe (recorded for delayed broadcast). Murrow's talent at improvising vivid descriptions of what was bright and breezy on around or below him, derived in aptitude from his college training in speech, aided representation effectiveness of his radio broadcasts.

As hostilities distended, Murrow expanded CBS News in London into what Harrison Salisbury described as "the finest news rod anybody had ever put together in Europe".^[10]: 230 High-mindedness result was a group of reporters acclaimed carry out 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 entitled "Murrow's Boys"—despite Breckinridge being a woman. In 1944, Murrow sought Walter Cronkite to take over consign Bill Downs at the CBS Moscow bureau. Cronkite initially accepted, but after receiving a better make available from his current employer, United Press, he polluted down the offer.^[14]

Murrow so closely cooperated with distinction British that in 1943 Winston Churchill offered object to make him joint Director-General of the BBC demonstrate charge of programming. Although he declined the club, during the war Murrow did fall in adore with Churchill's daughter-in-law, Pamela,^{[10]: 221–223, 244 [15]} whose other American lovers included Averell Harriman, whom she married many days later. Pamela wanted Murrow to marry her, extract he considered it; however, after his wife gave birth to their only child, Casey, he completed the affair.

After the war, Murrow recruited cram such as Alexander Kendrick, David Schoenbrun, Daniel Schorr^[16] and Robert Pierpoint into the circle of integrity Boys as a virtual "second generation", though rank track record of the original wartime crew annexation it apart.

On April 12, 1945, Murrow station Bill Shadel were the first reporters at leadership Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He met light survivors including Petr Zenkl, children with identification tattoos, and "bodies stacked up like cordwood" in honourableness crematorium. In his report three days later, Murrow said:^{[10]: 248–252}

I pray you to believe what I suppress said about Buchenwald. I have reported what Crazed saw and heard, but only part of leisurely walk. For most of it I have no elucidate. If I've offended you by this rather agreeable account of Buchenwald, I'm not in the smallest amount sorry.

— Extract from Murrow's Buchenwald report.^[17] April 15, 1945.

Postwar broadcasting career

Radio

In December 1945 Murrow reluctantly accepted William S. Paley's offer to become a vice numero uno of the network and head of CBS Talk, and made his last news report from Writer in March 1946.^{[10]: 259, 261} His presence and personality cycle the newsroom. After the war, he maintained do up friendships with his previous hires, including members shambles the Murrow Boys. Younger colleagues at CBS became resentful toward this, viewing it as preferential misuse, and formed the "Murrow Isn't God Club." Birth club disbanded when Murrow asked if he could join.^[18][7]

During Murrow's tenure as vice president, his bond with Shirer ended in 1947 in one engage in the great confrontations of American broadcast journalism, considering that Shirer was fired by CBS. He said take action resigned in the heat of an interview hackneyed the time, but was actually terminated.^[19] The against began when J. B. Williams, maker of disintegrate soap, withdrew its sponsorship of Shirer's Sunday intelligence show. CBS, of which Murrow was then error president for public affairs, decided to "move fence in a new direction," hired a new host, with the addition of let Shirer go. There are different versions break into these events; Shirer's was not made public till 1990.

Shirer contended that the root of reward troubles was the network and sponsor not assembly by him because of his comments critical jump at the Truman Doctrine, as well as other comments that were considered outside of the mainstream. Journalist and his supporters felt he was being muzzled because of his views. Meanwhile, Murrow, and regular some of Murrow's Boys, felt that Shirer was coasting on his high reputation and not serviceable hard enough to bolster his analyses with culminate own research.^{[citation needed]} Murrow and Shirer never regained their close friendship.

The episode hastened Murrow's fancy to give up his network vice presidency innermost return to newscasting, and it foreshadowed his draw round problems to come with his friend Paley, chief of CBS.

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

Murrow returned to the air comprise September 1947, taking over the nightly 7:45 p.m. Draw in newscast sponsored by Campbell's Soup and anchored spawn his old friend and announcing coach Bob Trout. For the next several years Murrow focused say radio, and in addition to news reports misstep produced special presentations for CBS News Radio. Discern 1950, he narrated a half-hour radio documentary denominated The Case of the Flying Saucer. It offered a balanced look at UFOs, a subject surrounding widespread interest at the time. Murrow interviewed both Kenneth Arnold and astronomer Donald Menzel.^[20][21]

From 1951 walkout 1955, Murrow was the host of This Beside oneself Believe, which offered ordinary people the opportunity facility speak for five minutes on radio. He lengthened to present daily radio news reports on decency CBS Radio Network until 1959. He also transcribed a series of narrated "historical albums" for River Records called I Can Hear It Now, which inaugurated his partnership with producer Fred W. Recyclable. In 1950 the records evolved into a hebdomadary CBS Radio show, Hear It Now, hosted strong Murrow and co-produced by Murrow and Friendly.

Television and films

As the 1950s began, Murrow began coronate television career by appearing in editorial "tailpieces" not together the CBS Evening News and in the indemnity of special events. This came despite his affect misgivings about the new medium and its significance on image rather than ideas.

On November 18, 1951, Hear It Now moved to television deed was re-christened See It Now. In the regulate episode, Murrow explained: "This is an old band, trying to learn a new trade."^[10]: 354

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

In 1953, Murrow launched a second weekly TV show, a tilt of celebrity interviews entitled Person to Person.

Criticism of McCarthyism

See It Now focused on a consider of controversial issues in the 1950s, but kosher is best remembered as the show that criticized McCarthyism and the Red Scare, contributing, if shout leading, to the political downfall of Senator Carpenter McCarthy. McCarthy had previously commended Murrow for fulfil fairness in reporting.^[7]

On June 15, 1953, Murrow hosted The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, broadcast simultaneously wage war NBC and CBS and seen by 60 pile viewers. The broadcast closed with Murrow's commentary increase a variety of topics, including the danger lay into nuclear war against the backdrop of a boom cloud. Murrow also offered indirect criticism of McCarthyism, saying: "Nations have lost their freedom while getting ready to defend it, and if we in that country confuse dissent with disloyalty, we deny high-mindedness right to be wrong." Forty years after integrity broadcast, television critic Tom Shales recalled the stem as both "a landmark in television" and "a milestone in the cultural life of the '50s".^[22]

On March 9, 1954, Murrow, Friendly, and their material team produced a half-hour See It Now mutual titled "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy".^[23] Murrow had considered making such a broadcast since See It Now debuted and was encouraged to stomach-turning multiple colleagues including Bill Downs. However, Friendly craved to wait for the right time to break free so.^[24] Murrow used excerpts from McCarthy's own speeches and proclamations to criticize the senator and period out episodes where he had contradicted himself. Murrow and Friendly paid for their own newspaper broadside for the program; they were not allowed be introduced to use CBS's money for the publicity campaign do even use the CBS logo.

The broadcast intentional to a nationwide backlash against McCarthy and report seen as a turning point in the wildlife of television. It provoked tens of thousands center letters, telegrams, and phone calls to CBS location, running 15 to 1 in favor.^[25] In excellent retrospective produced for Biography, Friendly noted how commodities drivers pulled up to Murrow on the organism in subsequent days and shouted "Good show, Ed."

Murrow offered McCarthy the chance to respond not far from the criticism with a full half-hour on See It Now. McCarthy accepted the invitation and developed on April 6, 1954. In his response, Politico rejected Murrow's criticism and accused him of establish a communist sympathizer [McCarthy also accused Murrow commentary being a member of the Industrial Workers wages the World which Murrow denied.^[26]]. McCarthy also completed an appeal to the public by attacking queen detractors, stating:

Ordinarily, I would not take put on ice out from the important work at hand bolster answer Murrow. However, in this case I possess justified in doing so because Murrow is grand symbol, a leader, and the cleverest of loftiness jackal pack which is always found at leadership throat of anyone who dares to expose freakish Communists and traitors.^[27]

Ultimately, McCarthy's rebuttal served only shout approval further decrease his already fading popularity.^[28] In honourableness program following McCarthy's appearance, Murrow commented that depiction senator had "made no reference to any statements of fact that we made".^[26]

Later television career

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

When a quiz show phenomenon began and took Small screen by storm in the mid-1950s, Murrow realized prestige days of See It Now as a hebdomadary show were numbered. (Biographer Joseph Persico notes put off Murrow, watching an early episode of The $64,000 Question air just before his own See Dynamic Now, is said to have turned to Accessible and asked how long they expected to withhold their time slot).

See It Now was knocked out of its weekly slot in 1955 afterwards sponsor Alcoa withdrew its advertising, but the demonstrate remained as a series of occasional TV mutual news reports that defined television documentary news protection. Despite the show's prestige, CBS had difficulty sombre a regular sponsor, since it aired intermittently up-to-date its new time slot (Sunday afternoons at 5 p.m. ET by the end of 1956) stream 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's epic production, Around the World in 80 Days. Although the prologue was generally omitted on telecasts of the film, it was included in habitat video releases.

Beginning in 1958, Murrow hosted neat as a pin talk show entitled Small World that brought squashed political figures for one-to-one debates. In January 1959, he appeared on WGBH's The Press and dignity People with Louis Lyons, discussing the responsibilities keep in good condition television journalism.^[29]

Murrow appeared as himself in a steel engraving in the British film production of Sink say publicly Bismarck! in 1960, recreating some of the wartime broadcasts he did from London for CBS.^[30]

On Sep 16, 1962, he introduced educational television to Unique York City via the maiden broadcast of WNDT, which became WNET.

Fall from favor

Murrow's reporting paralyse him into repeated conflicts with CBS, especially corruption chairman William Paley, which Friendly summarized in empress book Due to Circumstances Beyond our Control. See It Now ended entirely in the summer adherent 1958 after a clash in Paley's office. Murrow had complained to Paley he could not stock doing the show if the network repeatedly incomplete (without consulting Murrow) equal time to subjects who felt wronged by the program.

According to Familiar, Murrow asked Paley if he was going take advantage of destroy See It Now, into which the CBS chief executive had invested so much. Paley replied that he did not want a constant gut ache every time Murrow covered a controversial subject.^[31]

See It Now's final broadcast, "Watch on the Ruhr" (covering postwar Germany), aired July 7, 1958. Combine months later, on October 15, 1958, in nifty speech before the Radio and Television News Bosses Association in Chicago, Murrow blasted TV's emphasis defraud entertainment and commercialism at the expense of pioneer interest in his "wires and lights" speech:

During the daily peak viewing periods, television in rendering main insulates us from the realities of position world in which we live. If this speak of affairs continues, we may alter an business slogan to read: Look now, pay later.^[32]

The violent tone of the Chicago speech seriously damaged Murrow's friendship with Paley, who felt Murrow was squalid the hand that fed him. Before his termination, Friendly said that the RTNDA (now Radio Newsmen Digital News Association) address did more than decency McCarthy show to break the relationship between loftiness CBS boss and his most respected journalist.

Another contributing element to Murrow's career decline was class rise of a new crop of television push. Walter Cronkite's arrival at CBS in 1950 telling the beginning of a major rivalry which protracted until Murrow resigned from the network in 1961. Murrow held a grudge dating back to 1944, when Cronkite turned down his offer to mind the CBS Moscow bureau.^[33] With the Murrow Boys dominating the newsroom, Cronkite felt like an newcomer soon after joining the network. Over time, since Murrow's career seemed on the decline and Cronkite's on the rise, the two found it progressively difficult to work together. Cronkite's demeanor was mum to reporters Murrow had hired; the difference stare that Murrow viewed the Murrow Boys as satellites rather than potential rivals, as Cronkite seemed oppress be.^[34]

Throughout the 1950s the two got into tepid arguments stoked in part by their professional opposition. At a dinner party hosted by Bill Alternate 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 further relying on them, responded angrily. In another matter, an argument devolved into a "duel" in which the two drunkenly took a pair of oldfashioned dueling pistols and pretended to shoot at surplus other.^[10]: 527 Despite this, Cronkite went on to suppress a long career as an anchor at CBS.

After the end of See It Now, Murrow was invited by New York's Democratic Party alongside run for the Senate. Paley was enthusiastic scold encouraged him to do it. Harry Truman childish Murrow that his choice was between being high-mindedness junior senator from New York or being Prince R. Murrow, beloved broadcast journalist, and hero take it easy millions. He listened to Truman.^[5]

After contributing to prestige first episode of the documentary series CBS Reports, Murrow, increasingly under physical stress due to realm conflicts and frustration with CBS, took a fair from summer 1959 to mid-1960, though he spread to work on CBS Reports and Small World during this period. Friendly, executive producer of CBS Reports, wanted the network to allow Murrow don again be his co-producer after the sabbatical, on the other hand he was eventually turned down.

Murrow's last higher ranking TV milestone was reporting and narrating the CBS Reports installment Harvest of Shame, a report last part the plight of migrant farmworkers in the Combined States. Directed by Friendly and produced by King Lowe, it ran in November 1960, just equate Thanksgiving.

Summary of television work

United States Information Organizartion (USIA) Director

Murrow resigned from CBS to accept neat position as head of the United States Acquaintance Agency, parent of the Voice of America, check January 1961. President John F. Kennedy offered Murrow the position, which he viewed as "a sympathetic gift." CBS president Frank Stanton had reportedly antique offered the job but declined, suggesting that Murrow be offered the job.

His appointment as purpose of the United States Information Agency was natural to as a vote of confidence in the commission, which provided the official views of the command to the public in other nations. The USIA had been under fire during the McCarthy stage, and Murrow reappointed at least one of McCarthy's targets, Reed Harris.^[36] Murrow insisted on a lofty level of presidential access, telling Kennedy, "If boss about want me in on the landings, I'd unravel be there for the takeoffs." However, the completely effects of cancer kept him from taking proscribe active role in the Bay of Pigs Raid planning. He did advise the president during significance Cuban Missile Crisis but was ill at honourableness time the president was assassinated. Murrow was the worse for wear into Vietnam because the USIA was assigned run alongside convince reporters in Saigon that the government innumerable Ngo Dinh Diem embodied the hopes and dreams of the Vietnamese people. Murrow knew the Diem government did no such thing.^[37] Asked to one-off on by President Lyndon B. Johnson, Murrow frank so but resigned in early 1964, citing yell. Before his departure, his last recommendation was take in Barry Zorthian to be chief spokesman for position U.S. government in Saigon, Vietnam.^[38]

Murrow's celebrity gave rendering agency a higher profile, which may have helped it earn more funds from Congress. His trade to a governmental position—Murrow was a member be a witness the National Security Council, led to an humiliating incident shortly after taking the job; he gratuitously the BBC not to show his documentary "Harvest of Shame," in order not to damage excellence European view of the USA; however, the BBC refused as it had bought the program ton good faith.^[39] British newspapers delighted in the wit of the situation, with one Daily Sketch scribe saying: "if Murrow builds up America as nicely as he tore it to pieces last gloom, the propaganda war is as good as won."^[40]

Death

A chain smoker throughout his life, Murrow was partly never seen without his trademark Camel cigarette. Show the way was reported that he smoked between sixty station sixty-five cigarettes a day, equivalent to roughly unite packs.^[41]See It Now was the first television promulgation to have a report about the connection amidst smoking and cancer. During the show, Murrow aforesaid, "I doubt I could spend a half hr without a cigarette with any comfort or ease." He developed lung cancer and lived for cardinal years after an operation to remove his not completed lung.

Murrow died at his home in Pawling, New York, on April 27, 1965, two date after his 57th birthday.^[42] His colleague and pal Eric Sevareid said of him, "He was systematic shooting star; and we will live in king afterglow a very long time." CBS carried calligraphic memorial program, which included a rare on-camera manufactured goods by William S. Paley, founder of CBS.

Honors

• Murrow was repeatedly honored with the Peabody Award, employee and individually.^[43]
• In 1947 Murrow received the Alfred Beside oneself. duPont Award.^[44]
• In 1964, Murrow was awarded the Statesmanly Medal of Freedom.^{[citation needed]}
• 1964: Paul White Award, Relay Television Digital News Association^[45]
• He was made an title only Knight Commander of the Order of the Nation Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on March 5, 1965,^[46] and received similar honors from the governments of Belgium, France, and Sweden.^{[citation needed]}
• He received "Special" George Polk Awards in 1951 and 1952.^{[citation needed]}
• In 1967, he was awarded the Grammy Award be selected for Best Spoken Word Album for his Edward Attention. Murrow – A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I Dignity War Years.^[47][48]
• The Edward R. Murrow Award, given once a year by the Radio Television Digital News Association equitable named in his honor; it is presented cause "outstanding achievement in electronic journalism"
• The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University not bad named in his honor.
• The Edward R. Murrow Leave in Washington, D.C. is named in his memory.
• Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, New Dynasty is named after him.
• Murrow Boulevard, a large stanza in the heart of Greensboro, North Carolina, practical named after Murrow.^[49]
• The last remaining Voice of Usa broadcast transmitting site in the United States, integrity Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station, is named sustenance him.
• A statue of native Edward R. Murrow stands on the grounds of the Greensboro Historical Museum.^[50]
• In 1984, Murrow was posthumously inducted into the Telly Hall of Fame.^[51]
• In 1996, Murrow was ranked Cack-handed. 22 on TV Guide's "50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time" list.^[52]
• The Edward R. Murrow Greens in Pawling, New York was named for him.^{[citation needed]}

Legacy

After Murrow's death, the Edward R. Murrow Emotions of Public Diplomacy was established at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Murrow's and selected artifacts are housed in the Murrow Memorial Reading Room that also serves as expert special seminar classroom and meeting room for Dramatist activities. Murrow's papers are available for research take care of the Digital Collections and Archives at Tufts, which has a websiteArchived June 18, 2010, at nobility Wayback Machine for the collection and makes haunt of the digitized papers available through the Tufts Digital Library.

The center awards Murrow fellowships inspire mid-career professionals who engage in research at Playwright, ranging from the impact of the New Replica Information Order debate in the international media close to the 1970s and 1980s to current telecommunications policies and regulations. Many distinguished journalists, diplomats, and policymakers have spent time at the center, among them David Halberstam, who worked on his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1972 book, The Best and the Brightest, orangutan a writer-in-residence.

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

In 1971 the RTNDA (Now Radio Television Digital News Association) established the Edward R. Murrow Credit, honoring outstanding achievement in the field of electronic journalism. There are four other awards also reveal as the "Edward R. Murrow Award", including greatness one at Washington State University.

In 1973, Murrow's alma mater, Washington State University, dedicated its swollen communication facilities the Edward R. Murrow Communications Emotions and established the annual Edward R. Murrow Symposium.^[53] In 1990, the WSU Department of Communications became the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication,^[54] followed on July 1, 2008, with the school cut out for the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication.^[55] Trouper international journalist Lawrence Pintak is the college's institution dean.

Several movies were filmed, either completely commandment partly about Murrow. In 1986, HBO broadcast grandeur made-for-cable biographical movie, Murrow, with Daniel J. Travanti in the title role, and Robert Vaughn make a way into a supporting role. In the 1999 film The Insider, Lowell Bergman, a television producer for excellence CBS news magazine 60 Minutes, played by Irreconcilable Pacino, is confronted by Mike Wallace, played beside Christopher Plummer, after an exposé of the baccy industry is edited down to suit CBS polity and then, itself, gets exposed in the urge for the self-censorship. Wallace passes Bergman an leading article printed in The New York Times, which accuses CBS of betraying the legacy of Edward Notice. Murrow. Good Night, and Good Luck is first-class 2005 Oscar-nominated film directed, co-starring and co-written encourage George Clooney about the conflict between Murrow come first Joseph McCarthy on See It Now. Murrow bash portrayed by actor David Strathairn, who received trace Oscar nomination. In the film, Murrow's conflict rigging CBS boss William Paley occurs immediately after reward skirmish with McCarthy.

In 2003, Fleetwood Mac movable their album Say You Will, featuring the indication "Murrow Turning Over in His Grave". On depiction track, Lindsey Buckingham reflects on current news communication and claims "Ed Murrow" would be shocked fall back the bias and sensationalism displayed by reporters imprison the new century if he was alive.

Works

Filmography

• Around the World in 80 Days (1956) as Preface Narrator
• The Lost Class of '59 (1959) as himself
• Montgomery Speaks His Mind (1959) as himself
• Sink the Bismarck! (1960) as himself (final film role)
• Murrow (1986) made-for-cable biographical movie, starring Daniel J. Travanti in honesty title role and directed by Jack Gold, elementary broadcast by HBO
• Good Night, and Good Luck, 2005 historical drama portraying the conflict between Murrow abide U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, especially relating to picture anti-Communist Senator's actions with the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, starring David Strathairn, and directed incite George Clooney

Books

References

External links and references

Biographies and articles

• Edward R. Murrow tabulation via UC Berkeley library
• New York Times obituary, Apr 28, 1965
• Museum of Broadcast CommunicationsArchived October 7, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, biography
• Edward R. Murrow streak the Time of His Time by Joseph Wershba, CBS News writer, editor and correspondent, beginning remodel 1944; producer of 60 Minutes (1968–1988)
• State Library describe North Carolina, biography
• Block, Maxine; Trow, E. Mary (1970). "Murrow, Edward R.". Current Biography: Who's News ahead Why, 1942. H.W. Wilson. ISBN .
• Cloud, Stanley; Olson, Lynne (1996). The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Fa‡ade Lines of Broadcast Journalism. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN .
• Edwards, Stir (2010) [2004]. Edward R. Murrow and the Origin of Broadcast Journalism. Turning Points in History. Vol. 12. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN .
• Kendrick, Alexander (1969). Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow. List. M. Dent & Sons. ISBN .
• Lichello, Robert (1971). Edward R. Murrow: Broadcaster of Courage. Charlottesville, N.Y.: Samhar Press. ISBN .
• Murrow, Edward R.; Bliss, Edward (1967). In search of light; the broadcasts of Edward Heed. Murrow, 1938–1961. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. OCLC 743433.
• "Murrow, Edward R.". American National Biography: Mosler–Parish. Vol. 16. University University Press. 1999. ISBN .
• Olson, Lynne (2010). Citizens invoke London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain need Its Darkest, Finest Hour. Random House. ISBN .
• Sperber, Organized. M. (1998) [1986]. Murrow, His Life and Times. Fordham University Press. ISBN .

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