57-423: Murrow may refer to Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965), an American radio and television journalist Murrow (film) , a 1986 made-for-TV biopic about the journalist Murrow, Cambridgeshire Murrow East railway station Murrow West railway station Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
114-1005: A European News Roundup of reaction to the Anschluss, which brought correspondents from various European cities together for a single broadcast. On March 13, 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,
171-508: A communist sympathizer [McCarthy also accused Murrow of being a member of the Industrial Workers of the World which Murrow denied. ]. McCarthy also made an appeal to the public by attacking his detractors, stating: Ordinarily, I would not take time out from the important work at hand to answer Murrow. However, in this case I feel justified in doing so because Murrow is a symbol, a leader, and
228-522: A female householder with no husband present, and 30.8% were non-families. 21.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the average family size was 3.03. In the CDP, the age distribution of the population shows 24.8% under the age of 18, 4.5% from 18 to 24, 23.3% from 25 to 44, 39.1% from 45 to 64, and 8.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age
285-415: A few hours. Lacey Van Buren was four years old and Dewey Joshua 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. When Murrow was six years old, his family moved across the country to Skagit County in western Washington , to homestead near Blanchard , 30 miles (50 km) south of
342-546: A new host, and let Shirer go. There are different 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 not standing by him because of his comments critical of the Truman Doctrine , as 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
399-405: 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 full half-hour on See It Now . McCarthy accepted the invitation and appeared on April 6, 1954. In his response, McCarthy rejected Murrow's criticism and accused him of being
456-655: A second weekly TV show, a series of celebrity interviews entitled Person to Person . See It Now focused on a number of controversial issues in the 1950s, but it is best remembered as the show that criticized McCarthyism and the Red Scare , contributing, if not leading, to the political downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy had previously commended Murrow for his fairness in reporting. On June 15, 1953, Murrow hosted The Ford 50th Anniversary Show , broadcast simultaneously on NBC and CBS and seen by 60 million viewers. The broadcast closed with Murrow's commentary covering
513-516: A similar post on the continent. This marked the beginning of the "Murrow Boys" team of war reporters. Murrow gained his first glimpse of fame during the March 1938 Anschluss , in which Adolf Hitler engineered the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany . While Murrow was in Poland arranging a broadcast of children's choruses, he got word from Shirer of the annexation—and the fact that Shirer could not get
570-459: A variety of topics, including the danger of nuclear war against the backdrop of a mushroom cloud. Murrow also offered indirect criticism of McCarthyism , saying: "Nations have lost their freedom while preparing to defend it, and if we in this country confuse dissent with disloyalty, we deny the right to be wrong." Forty years after the broadcast, television critic Tom Shales recalled the broadcast as both "a landmark in television" and "a milestone in
627-483: A weekly CBS Radio show, Hear It Now , hosted by Murrow and co-produced by Murrow and Friendly. As 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 image rather than ideas. On November 18, 1951, Hear It Now moved to television and
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#1732844914101684-462: Is London calling." Murrow's phrase became synonymous with the newscaster and his network. Murrow achieved celebrity status as a result of his war reports. They led to his second famous catchphrase, at the end of 1940, with every night's German bombing raid, Londoners who might not necessarily see each other the next morning often closed their conversations with "good night, and good luck." The future British monarch, Princess Elizabeth , said as much to
741-485: Is located at 48°33′45″N 122°26′11″W / 48.56250°N 122.43639°W / 48.56250; -122.43639 (48.562531, -122.436514). According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.5 km ), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 133 people, 52 households, and 35 families residing in the CDP. The population density
798-483: Is said to have turned to Friendly and asked how long they expected to keep their time slot). See It Now was knocked out of its weekly slot in 1955 after sponsor Alcoa withdrew its advertising, but the show remained as a series of occasional TV special news reports that defined television 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 by
855-623: The Canada–United States border . He attended high school in nearby Edison , and was president of the student body in his senior year and excelled on the debate team. He was also a member of the basketball team which won the Skagit County championship. After graduation from high school in 1926, Murrow enrolled at Washington State College (now Washington State University) across the state in Pullman , and eventually majored in speech. A member of
912-566: The Kappa Sigma fraternity , he was also active in college politics. By his teen years, Murrow went by the nickname "Ed" and during his second year of college, he changed his name from Egbert to Edward. In 1929, while attending the annual convention of the National Student Federation of America , Murrow gave a speech urging college students to become more interested in national and world affairs; this led to his election as president of
969-491: The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel . 1,100 guests attended the dinner, which the network broadcast. Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a welcome-back telegram, which was read at the dinner, and Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish gave an encomium that commented on the power and intimacy of Murrow's wartime dispatches. "You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames that burned it," MacLeish said. "You laid
1026-418: 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. After the war Murrow broadcast continued under the title "I can hear it now". He named his television show "see it now". He began the London broadcast during the blitz with the phrase "this is London", occasionally with
1083-695: The crisis over the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia , which Hitler coveted for Germany 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 analyst H. V. Kaltenborn in New York saying, "Calling Ed Murrow ... come in Ed Murrow." During the following year, leading up to
1140-447: The Blitz, began with what became his signature opening, " This is London," delivered with his vocal emphasis on the word this , followed by the hint of a pause before the rest of the phrase. His former speech teacher, Ida Lou Anderson , suggested the opening as a more concise alternative to the one he had inherited from his predecessor at CBS Europe, César Saerchinger : "Hello, America. This
1197-805: The CBS Moscow bureau. Cronkite initially accepted, but after receiving a better offer from his current employer, United Press , he turned down the offer. Murrow so closely cooperated with the British that in 1943 Winston Churchill offered to make him joint Director-General of the BBC in charge of programming. Although he declined the job, during the war Murrow did fall in love with Churchill's daughter-in-law, Pamela , whose other American lovers included Averell Harriman , whom she married many years later. Pamela wanted Murrow to marry her, and he considered it; however, after his wife gave birth to their only child, Casey, he ended
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#17328449141011254-559: The People with Louis Lyons , discussing the responsibilities of television journalism. Edison, Washington Edison is a census-designated place (CDP) in Skagit County, Washington , United States. The population was 240 at the 2020 census . It is included in the Mount Vernon – Anacortes , Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area . First settled in 1869 by Ben Samson, it
1311-684: The Vienna mansion of the Rothschild family . "We found a quiet bar off the Kärntnerstrasse for a talk," Shirer wrote. Ed was a little nervous. "Let's go to another place," he suggested. "Why?" "I was here last night about this time," he said. "A Jewish-looking fellow was standing at that bar. After a while he took an old-fashioned razor from his pocket and slashed his throat." In September 1938, Murrow and Shirer were regular participants in CBS's coverage of
1368-452: The Western world in a live radio address at the end of the year, when she said "good night, and good luck to you all". So, at the end of one 1940 broadcast, Murrow ended his segment with "Good night, and good luck." Speech teacher Anderson insisted he stick with it, and another Murrow catchphrase was born. When Murrow returned to the U.S. in 1941, CBS hosted a dinner in his honor on December 2 at
1425-679: The affair. After the war, Murrow recruited journalists such as Alexander Kendrick , David Schoenbrun , Daniel Schorr and Robert Pierpoint into the circle of the Boys as a virtual "second generation", though the track record of the original wartime crew set it apart. On April 12, 1945, Murrow and Bill Shadel were the first 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
1482-415: The cleverest of the jackal pack which is always found at the throat of anyone who dares to expose individual Communists and traitors. Ultimately, McCarthy's rebuttal served only to further decrease his already fading popularity. In the program following McCarthy's appearance, Murrow commented that the senator had "made no reference to any statements of fact that we made". Murrow's hard-hitting approach to
1539-413: The crematorium. In his report three days later, Murrow said: I pray you to believe what I have 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 by this rather mild account of Buchenwald, I'm not in the least sorry. In December 1945 Murrow reluctantly accepted William S. Paley 's offer to become a vice president of
1596-463: The cultural life of the '50s". 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". Murrow had considered making such a broadcast since See It Now debuted and was encouraged to by multiple colleagues including Bill Downs. However, Friendly wanted to wait for the right time to do so. Murrow used excerpts from McCarthy's own speeches and proclamations to criticize
1653-509: The dead of London at our doors and we knew that the dead were our dead, were mankind's dead. You have destroyed the superstition that what is done beyond 3,000 miles of water is not really done at all." The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor occurred less than a week after this speech, and the U.S. entered the war as a combatant on the Allied side. Murrow flew on 25 Allied combat missions in Europe during
1710-515: The end 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 's epic production, Around the World in 80 Days . Although the prologue was generally omitted on telecasts of the film, it was included in home video releases. Beginning in 1958, Murrow hosted a talk show entitled Small World that brought together political figures for one-to-one debates. In January 1959, he appeared on WGBH 's The Press and
1767-625: The federation. After earning his bachelor's degree in 1930, he moved back east to New York. Murrow was assistant director of the Institute of International Education from 1932 to 1935 and served as assistant secretary of the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign 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,
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1824-405: 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, but was actually terminated. The dispute began when J. B. Williams, maker of shaving soap, withdrew its sponsorship of Shirer's Sunday news show. CBS, of which Murrow was then vice president for public affairs, decided to "move in a new direction," hired
1881-475: The height of the Blitz in London After Dark . These live, shortwave broadcasts relayed on CBS electrified radio audiences as news programming never had: previous war coverage had mostly been provided by newspaper reports, along with newsreels seen in movie theaters; earlier radio news programs had simply featured an announcer in a studio reading wire service reports. Murrow's reports, especially during
1938-594: The network and head of CBS News, and made his last news report from London in March 1946. 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 as preferential treatment, and formed the "Murrow Isn't God Club." The club disbanded when Murrow asked if he could join. During Murrow's tenure as vice president, his relationship with Shirer ended in 1947 in one of
1995-520: The news cost him influence in the world of television. See It Now occasionally scored high ratings (usually when it was tackling a particularly controversial subject), but in general, it did not score well on prime-time television. When a quiz show phenomenon began and took TV by storm in the mid-1950s, Murrow realized the days of See It Now as a weekly show were numbered. (Biographer Joseph Persico notes that Murrow, watching an early episode of The $ 64,000 Question air just before his own See It Now ,
2052-467: 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 half-hour radio documentary called The Case of the Flying Saucer . It offered a balanced look at UFOs , a subject of widespread interest at the time. Murrow interviewed both Kenneth Arnold and astronomer Donald Menzel . From 1951 to 1955, Murrow
2109-654: 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 United States in December 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 live radio broadcasts during
2166-494: The senator and point out episodes where he had contradicted himself. Murrow and Friendly paid for their own newspaper advertisement for the program; they were not allowed to use CBS's money for the publicity campaign or even use the CBS logo. The broadcast contributed to a nationwide backlash against McCarthy and is seen as a turning point in the history of television. It provoked tens of thousands of letters, telegrams, and phone calls to CBS headquarters, running 15 to 1 in favor. In
2223-591: The sounds of bombing and air raids in the background. He signed off his television show with a signature phrase "good night and good luck". Murrow was born Egbert Roscoe Murrow at Polecat Creek, near Greensboro , in Guilford County, North Carolina , to Roscoe Conklin Murrow and Ethel F. (née Lamb) Murrow. His parents were Quakers . He was the youngest of four brothers and was a "mixture of Scottish, Irish, English and German" descent. The firstborn, Roscoe Jr., lived only
2280-510: The story out through Austrian state radio facilities. Murrow immediately sent 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 take off. Then they cleared the London plane. But I could not get on. I offered fantastic sums to several passengers for their places. Most of them were Jews and I could not blame them for turning me down. Next
2337-609: The time. Featuring multipoint, live reports transmitted by shortwave in the days before modern technology (and without each of the parties necessarily being able to hear one another), it came off almost flawlessly. The special became the basis for World News Roundup —broadcasting's oldest news series, which still runs each weekday morning and evening on the CBS Radio Network . On March 19, Shirer returned from London, and Murrow met his plane at Vienna's Aspern airport. Returning to Shirer's apartment, they encountered SS troops looting
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2394-532: The title Murrow . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murrow&oldid=902724466 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Edward R. Murrow Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow ; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965)
2451-503: The war effort, setting up Allied radio outlets in Italy and North Africa. After the war, he would often go to Paley directly to settle any problems he had. "Ed Murrow was Bill Paley's one genuine friend in CBS," noted Murrow biographer Joseph Persico . Murrow returned to the air in September 1947, taking over the nightly 7:45 p.m. ET newscast sponsored by Campbell's Soup and anchored by his old friend and announcing coach Bob Trout. For
2508-496: The war, providing additional 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 below him, derived in part from his college training 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 ever put together in Europe". The result
2565-464: Was 227.4 people per square mile (88.5/km ). There were 55 housing units at an average density of 94.0/sq mi (36.6/km ). The racial makeup of the CDP was 92.48% White , 3.76% Native American , 2.26% Asian , and 1.50% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.75% of the population. There were 52 households, out of which 34.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.6% were married couples living together, 7.7% had
2622-432: Was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 118.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 122.2 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $ 46,607, and the median income for a family was $ 50,982. Males had a median income of $ 40,000 versus $ 21,719 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $ 18,547. None of the population or families were below the poverty line . Edison High School
2679-524: Was a group of reporters acclaimed for 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 dubbed " Murrow's Boys "—despite Breckinridge being a woman. In 1944, Murrow sought Walter Cronkite to take over for Bill Downs at
2736-527: Was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent . He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS . During the 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 television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of reports on his television program See It Now which helped lead to
2793-402: Was born in the west of London on November 6, 1945. Murrow joined CBS as director of talks and education in 1935 and remained with the network for his entire career. CBS did not have news staff when Murrow joined, save for announcer Bob Trout . Murrow's job was to line up newsmakers who would appear on the network to talk about the issues of the day. But the onetime Washington State speech major
2850-428: Was coasting on his high reputation and not working hard enough to bolster his analyses with his own research. Murrow and Shirer never regained their close friendship. The episode hastened Murrow's desire to give up his network vice presidency and return to newscasting, and it foreshadowed his own problems to come with his friend Paley, boss of CBS. Murrow and Paley had become close when the network chief himself joined
2907-427: Was established on 280 acres just outside Edison and it engaged in farming and timber milling and included a school as well as blacksmith and copper-working shops. The Edison-based Brotherhood also published a newspaper called Industrial Freedom for national circulation to its approximately 3,000 supporters. The socialist community folded shortly after 1903, by which time only about 100 colony members remained. Edison
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#17328449141012964-517: Was intrigued by Trout's on-air delivery, and Trout gave Murrow tips on how to communicate effectively on radio. Murrow went to London in 1937 to serve as the director of CBS's European operations. The position did not involve on-air reporting; his job was persuading European figures to broadcast over the CBS network, which was in direct competition with NBC 's two radio networks. During this time, he made frequent trips around Europe. In 1937, Murrow hired journalist William L. Shirer , and assigned him to
3021-589: Was later named for famous inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), with his inventing productive laboratories in Menlo Park, New Jersey , East Orange, New Jersey , and Fort Myers, Florida . In 1897, Edison became the headquarters of a national utopian socialist project known as Equality Colony , backed by an organization known as the Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth. The socialist colony
3078-478: Was re-christened See It Now . In the first episode, Murrow explained: "This is an old team, trying to learn a new trade." In 1952, Murrow narrated the political documentary Alliance 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
3135-473: Was the host of This I Believe , which offered ordinary people the opportunity to speak for five minutes on radio. He continued to present daily radio news reports on the CBS Radio Network until 1959. He also recorded a series of narrated "historical albums" for Columbia Records called I Can Hear It Now , which inaugurated his partnership with producer Fred W. Friendly . In 1950 the records evolved into
3192-413: Was the plane to Berlin. I got on that. Shirer flew from Vienna to Berlin, then Amsterdam, and finally to London, where he delivered an uncensored eyewitness account of the Anschluss. Murrow then chartered the only transportation available, a 23-passenger plane, to fly from Warsaw to Vienna so he could take over for Shirer. At the request of CBS management in New York, Murrow and Shirer put together
3249-456: Was unable to find a transmitter to broadcast reaction from the Italian capital but phoned his script to Shirer in London, who read it on the air. Murrow reported live from Vienna, in the first on-the-scene news report of his career: "This is Edward Murrow speaking from Vienna.... It's now nearly 2:30 in the morning, and Herr Hitler has not yet arrived." The broadcast was considered revolutionary at
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