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Edward R. Murrow
Edward Roscoe Murrow was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.
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culture · American broadcast journalist (1908–1965) · journalist · also Edward R. Murrow, Edward Roscoe Murrow, Egbert Murrow, Edward Murrow, Ed Murrow, Murrow
Born 25 April 1908 · Died 27 April 1965 · Q353935
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2026· 3 entries
“If you want me in on the landings, I”
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Archival audio of Murrow's sign-off was aired during the network's last-ever news bulletin, followed by a final sign-off by anchor Christopher Cruise
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2023· 1 entry
A historical novel The War Begins in Paris featured several scenes with fictionalized versions of Murrow and Shirer among a group of American journalists who gathered in Paris following the Munich Accord
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2022· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Fox News Channel, the conservative cable news organization, has never won a Pulitzer, Emmy, Peabody, or Edward R. Murrow Award for journalism on the merits of its work.” True.
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2003· 1 entry
Fleetwood Mac released their album Say You Will, featuring the track "Murrow Turning Over in His Grave"
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1990· 1 entry
The WSU Department of Communications became the Edward R
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1986· 1 entry
HBO broadcast the made-for-cable biographical movie, Murrow, with Daniel J
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Television Hall of Fame (1984).
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Murrow was posthumously inducted into the Television Hall of Fame
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1973· 1 entry
Murrow's alma mater, Washington State University, dedicated its expanded communication facilities the Edward R
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1971· 1 entry
The RTNDA (Now Radio Television Digital News Association) established the Edward R
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1967· 1 entry
Was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for his Edward R
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Trustees Award (1966).
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1965· 7 entries
Died 1965-04-27.
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And received similar honors from the governments of Belgium, France, and Sweden
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“Is it not possible that an unruly head of hair, an infectious smile, eyes that seem remarkable for the depths of their sincerity, a cultivated air of authority, may attract huge television audiences regardless of the violence that may be done to truth or objectivity?”
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“The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.”
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“Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really understand the situation.”
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“We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks — that's show business.”
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“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”
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1964· 2 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Lyndon B. Johnson (1964).
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Murrow was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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1962· 1 entry
Introduced educational television to New York City via the maiden broadcast of WNDT, which became WNET
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1960· 1 entry
Recreating some of the wartime broadcasts he did from London for CBS
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1958· 2 entries
In a speech before the Radio and Television News Directors Association in Chicago, Murrow blasted TV's emphasis on entertainment and commercialism at the expense of public interest in his "wires and lights" speech:
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Murrow hosted a talk show entitled Small World that brought together political figures for one-to-one debates
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1956· 1 entry
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
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1955· 1 entry
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
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1954· 1 entry
Murrow, Friendly, and their news team produced a half-hour See It Now special titled "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy"
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1953· 2 entries
Murrow hosted The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, broadcast simultaneously on NBC and CBS and seen by 60 million viewers
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Murrow launched a second weekly TV show, a series of celebrity interviews entitled Person to Person
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1952· 2 entries
Awarded George Polk Award (1952).
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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
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1951· 2 entries
Hear It Now moved to television and was re-christened See It Now
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Awarded George Polk Award (1951).
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1950· 3 entries
Marked the beginning of a major rivalry which continued until Murrow resigned from the network in 1961
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Narrated a half-hour radio documentary called The Case of the Flying Saucer
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The records evolved into a weekly CBS Radio show, Hear It Now, hosted by Murrow and co-produced by Murrow and Friendly
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1947· 2 entries
In one of the great confrontations of American broadcast journalism, when Shirer was fired by CBS
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Murrow received the Alfred I
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1945· 1 entry
Murrow and Bill Shadel were the first reporters at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany
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1944· 1 entry
Murrow sought Walter Cronkite to take over for Bill Downs at the CBS Moscow bureau
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1943· 1 entry
Winston Churchill offered to make him joint Director-General of the BBC in charge of programming
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1941· 1 entry
CBS hosted a dinner in his honor on December 2 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
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1938· 1 entry
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
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1937· 2 entries
To serve as the director of CBS's European operations
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Murrow hired journalist William L
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1935· 1 entry
And remained with the network for his entire career
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1929· 1 entry
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 presi
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1926· 1 entry
Murrow enrolled at Washington State College (now Washington State University) across the state in Pullman, and eventually majored in speech
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1908· 1 entry
Born 1908-04-25.
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