MURROW FROM LONDON

 

American radio listeners heard daily reports on the bombing from Edward R. Murrow, who was broadcasting from a studio in the subbasement of Broadcasting House, a BBC facility in London. Murrow’s reports included accounts of death and destruction, the proclamations from Parliament and the observations of ordinary Londoners – a policeman on the corner or a young woman working in a shop. Reading carefully crafted scripts was quality reporting, but it would no longer do for Murrow. He was a radio man and his reports would be more vivid if his listeners could hear what was going on.

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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.

EDWARD R. MURROW "CBS Tribute"

 

CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow died at his home on April 27, 1965 two days after his 57th birthday. His colleague and friend Eric Sevareid said of him, "He was a shooting star; and we will live in his afterglow a very long time." CBS carried a memorial program, hosted by Robert Trout, which included a rare appearance by CBS chairman William S. Paley.

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.

EDWARD R. MURROW "Meditations on Ecclesiastes"

 

May 23, 1957 CBS Radio. Murrow discusses nuclear fallout and presents a performance of composer (photo) Norman Dello Joio's Pulitzer prize winning composition. MORE

EDWARD R. MURROW "Senator Joseph McCarthy"

 

CBS Radio, April 6, 1954. Edward R. Murrow performed one of the most famous acts of journalistic evisceration in American television history. On March 9th, 1954, Murrow—who was then perhaps the country's most highly revered journalist—devoted an entire episode of his CBS program "See it Now" to the words and deeds of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had already done much to earn his notorious place in history. Using McCarthy's own statements, Murrow painted a picture of a man whose recklessness with the truth and ugly attacks on his critics had contributed to a climate of deep fear and repression in American life. (Huffington Post)

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

Edward R. Murrow "March 1954"

 

Fifteen minute CBS Radio newscast from March of 1954 reported by Edward R. Murrow.

EDWARD R. MURROW "June 20, 1952 NEWSCAST"

 

Edward R. Murrow reports the news of the day, June 20, 1952, on the CBS Radio Network. Sponsored by AMOCO gasoline.

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.

EDWARD R. MURROW "UN Troops"

CBS News broadcast from March 20, 1951.

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.

EDWARD R MURROW "Flying Saucers"

 

June 24, 1950 Ed Murrow, CBS News, narrated a half-hour radio documentary called "The Case for the Flying Saucers". It offered a balanced look at unidentified flying objects, a subject of widespread interest at the time.

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.

EDWARD R. MURROW "AFRS Tribute"

 

From 1946 an Armed Forces Radio tribute to Edward R. Murrow's "I Can Hear It Now" radio series.

NEWS MEMORIES "CBS News WWII 1938"

 NEWS MEMORIES "CBS News WWII 1938" Robert Trout reports for CBS News the events from Europe on September 23, 1938. Including comments from Edward R. Murrow and Hans von Kaltenborn (July 9, 1878 – June 14, 1965), generally known as H. V. Kaltenborn. (Photo) He was an American radio commentator heard regularly on the CBS and NBC radio networks for over 30 years, beginning with CBS in 1928. He was known for his highly precise diction, his ability to ad-lib, and his depth of knowledge of world affairs. WIKIPEDIA BIO