JOHN R. HICKMAN COLLECTION "American University Audio Archives"

 

The John R. Hickman Collection consists of broadcast quality audio recordings of vintage radio news and entertainment programs, from the 1920s through the 1970s. The digitization of this collection is a work in progress. Select reel-to-reel tapes of major news events from 1939 -1953, and episodes from Amos 'n' Andy, Biography in Sound, The Cavalcade of America, The Goldbergs, Hear It Now, Life Can Be Beautiful, Lux Radio Theatre, Mary Margaret McBride, One Man's Family, Our Gal Sunday, The Original Amateur Hour, and The Romance of Helen Trent have been digitized.https://www.american.edu/library/archives/hickman.cfm

HEAR IT NOW "Truman fires Douglas MacArthur"

 

Edward R. Murrow brings us the news from the week on Friday April 13, 1951 on CBS Radio. Reports including In perhaps the most famous civilian-military confrontation in the history of the United States, President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of command of the U.S. forces in Korea. The firing of MacArthur set off a brief uproar among the American public, but Truman remained committed to keeping the conflict in Korea a “limited war.”

HEAR IT NOW "Parachute Jump"

 

Episode 17 aired April 6, 1951 on CBS Radio network. Hear It Now was a one-hour historical radio show that starred Edward Murrow, one of the best broadcast journalists America.

HEAR IT NOW "The Human Tick"

 

Episode 16 CBS Radio Network March 30, 1951. Edward R. Murrow presents the news of the week from CBS News.

HEAR IT NOW "Costello Hearings"

 

Broadcast of March 23, 1951 on CBS Radio. Episode 15 includes Edward R. Murrow's report of news of the week.

HEAR IT NOW "The Kefauver Crime Hearings"

 

Episode 14 aired on March 16, 1951. Edward R. Murrow's summary of the news of the week. In May 1950, a little-known U.S. Senator named Estes Kefauver, a 47 year-old Democrat from Tennessee, began a series of investigative hearings on organized crime. These formal hearings of the U.S. Senate — which came to be known as the “Kefauver Hearings” — were unique in the history of politics, also heralding the early power of television, as they became the first congressional hearings to draw a large national audience. HEARINGS

HEAR IT NOW "Bio of Labor Union"

 

Episode 13 on CBS Radio Network March 9, 1951. Edward R. Murrow, CBS News Korean War news, General MacArthur, letters to Congressman ad other political news. "A Biography Of A Labor Union".

HEAR IT NOW "Cold War News"

Episode 12 aired March 2, 1951 on CBS Radio. Hear It Now, an American radio program on CBS, began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951. It was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 pm Eastern Time.

HEAR IT NOW "Episode 10"

 

CBS Radio February 16, 1951. Hear It Now, an American radio weekly news program, began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951. It was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 pm Eastern Time.

HEAR IT NOW "Train Wreck"

 

Episode 9, aired February 9, 1951. Edward R. Murrow hosts an hour long program with highlights of the weeks news from CBS Radio News.

HEAR IT NOW Episode 8

 

February 2, 1951....Hear It Now was a one-hour historical radio show that starred Edward Murrow, one of the best broadcast journalists America has ever had. Murrow gained popularity after his on-the-scene reports on World War II.

HEAR IT NOW "Cost of Steak"

 

Hear it now (episode 07) Edward R. Murrow hosts...the cost of a pound of steak Air Date January 26, 1951. The voices of Eisenhower, Truman, MacArthur, Stassen, Leo Durocher, The biography of a pound of steak (at $1 a pound), many other stories and actualities.

HEAR IT NOW "Navy Ships"

 

Hear It Now, was an American radio program which began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951. It was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 pm Eastern Time. Only the first half of this episode on CBS Radio network January 19, 1950.

HEAR IT NOW "Politics and Korean Retreat"

 

January 12, 1951 episode 5. Our ears communicate with the mind and our eyes have a nasty habit of wandering about and daydreaming, rather than listening to what is being said. Hear It Now gives you an immediate sense of 1950's and the thinking the US put into understanding that Korean war. Edward R. Murrow's weekly hour long news program featured news of the week and reports from the Korean War. Hear It Now, was an American radio program on CBS, which began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951.

HEAR IT NOW "Return of the 81st US Congress"

 

Episode 4 with Edward R Murrow. News items from the week of January 1, 1950 including the return of The 81st United States Congress a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1949, to January 3, 1951. Audio Archives from CBS News.

HEAR IT NOW "Korean War and more"

 

Episode 3 aired December 29, 1950 on CBS Radio. Edward R Murrow's new team and news from the week.

HEAR IT NOW "Santa Claus"

Edward R Murrow, host

 

Episode 2 Aired on CBS Radio December 22, 1950. 

Abe Burrows interviews Santa Claus among news events and features presented on this program that week.

HEAR IT NOW "Korean War Reports"

 

The first episode of Edward R. Murrow's weekly hour long news program featured news of the week and reports from the Korean War Hear It Now, was an American radio program on CBS, which began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951. It was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 pm Eastern Time. The show had a "magazine" format. It sought to include a variety of sounds from current events such as an atom smasher at work or artillery fire from Korea. It was the artillery fire that produced one of the show's more poignant moments as it backdropped the words of American soldiers fighting the Korean War. The entire premise of the show was to include the "actual sound of history in the making," according to Murrow. Some of the show's audio was what Time Magazine called "fairly routine" in 1950. Such soundbites as Communist China's General Wu and Russia's Andrei Vishinsky along with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Warren Austin were included among those routinely used. But Time also lauded the "vivid reality" created by the aforemention artillery clips, comments from wounded U.S. Marines or Carl Sandburg's recital of his The People, Yes. The legwork involved in producing the program often exceeded the amount of programming culled from the reporting. For an hour and a half of interviews in Koto the duo was able to use 21 seconds of the material on the air. The program also shied away from the traditional use of string music common to many radio shows of the time period. Instead the show relied on composers such as David Diamond and Lehman Engel to produce its music. Murrow anchored the show with news and editorial commentary but Hear It Now also featured regular oral columns and features.