A key early hire was Edward R. Murrow in 1935 ; his first corporate title was Director of Talks.

Murrow was glad to " leave the hothouse atmosphere of the New York office behind " when he was dispatched to London as CBS's European Director in 1937, a time when the growing Hitler menace underscored the need for a robust European Bureau.

Once the war was over and Murrow returned for good, it was as " a superstar with prestige and freedom and respect within his profession and within his company.

He was one of the original Edward R. Murrow boys.

In January 1940, Smith was sent to Berlin, where he joined the Columbia Broadcasting System under Edward R. Murrow.

Books USA was started by Edward R. Murrow sometime before 1963,

Roy Campanella was interviewed by Edward R. Murrow on the CBS program Person to Person on October 2, 1953 and again on January 2, 1959.

* Edward R. Murrow, famed World War II CBS radio broadcaster and award-winning journalist, was born outside Greensboro.

George W Lightfoot, during 1930, requested a bridge between Mercer Island and Seattle ; the Lacey V Murrow Memorial Bridge, second longest floating bridge on Earth, was built and opened during 1940.

A third bridge, fifth longest floating bridge on Earth, Homer M Hadley Memorial Bridge, was built parallel to the Lacey V Murrow Memorial Bridge and opened during 1989.

" Joseph McCarthy was a notable Republican Senator from Wisconsin infamous for his anti-Communist campaigning and sparring with journalist Edward R. Murrow.

It was created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, Murrow being the host of the show.

In 1953, soon after his appointment as United Nations secretary general, Hammarskjöld was interviewed on radio by Edward R. Murrow.

However, Edward R. Murrow was widely regarded as the pioneer of U. S. television news.

It was created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, Murrow being the host of the show.

The show was an adaptation of radio's Hear It Now, also produced by Murrow and Friendly.

Its first episode, on November 18, 1951, opened with the first live simultaneous coast-to-coast TV transmission from both the East Coast ( the Brooklyn Bridge and New York Harbor ) and the West Coast ( the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and San Francisco Bay ), as reporters on both sides of the North American continent gave live reports to Murrow, who was sitting in the control room on CBS ' Studio 41 with director Don Hewitt.

One of the most popular of the See It Now reports was a 1952 broadcast entitled Christmas in Korea, when Murrow spoke with American soldiers assigned to the United Nations combat forces.

By using mostly recordings of McCarthy himself in action interrogating witnesses and making speeches, Murrow and Friendly displayed what they felt was the key danger to the democracy: not suspected Communists, but McCarthy's actions themselves.

During the years See It Now was an occasional series of specials appearing on Sunday afternoons at 5: 00pm ( et ) by 1957, Murrow became upset by the network repeatedly granting ( without consulting Murrow ) equal time to subjects who felt wronged by the program.

Murrow himself said he tried " to describe things in terms that make sense to the truck driver without insulting the intelligence of the professor.

The broadcast included reports from correspondent William L. Shirer in London ( on the annexation, which he had witnessed firsthand in Vienna ) and Murrow, who filled in for Shirer in Vienna so that Shirer could report without Austrian censorship.

Mitropoulos, known for championing new composers and obscure operas-in-concert, pioneered in other ways ; adding live Philharmonic performances between movies at the Roxy Theatre and taking Edward R. Murrow and the See It Now television audience on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Orchestra.

After hanging up, Bergman contacts The New York Times and reveals the scandal that occurred at 60 Minutes, after which the Times publishes a scathing article that accuses CBS of betraying the legacy of their famous reporter, Edward R. Murrow for bowing to such attempts to silence publication of a truthful news story.

WSU alumnus Edward R. Murrow got his start in radio at KWSC.

* Edward R. Murrow, famed radio and television broadcasting pioneer ; his ashes were scattered at his estate, Glen Arden Farm.

Ever since Edward R. Murrow went " Person-to-Person " live, the length of Central Park West in the 1950s, West Siders scarcely pause to gape at on-site trailers, and jump their skateboards over coaxial cables and it seems that one or another of the various Law & Order shows is taking up all the available parking spaces in the neighborhood.

With legendary CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow at the helm on the maiden broadcast, ETMA — now the non-profit Educational Broadcasting Corporation -- flipped the switch to WNDT ( for " New Dimensions in Television ") on September 16, 1962.

Murrow and CBS covered the war in Europe at the time Adolf Hitler was in power.

The modern meaning of the term " public diplomacy " was coined in 1965 by Edmund Gullion, dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a distinguished retired foreign service officer, when he established an Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy

* Air Force Lt. Radulovich, championed by Edward Murrow, dies at 81

Her colleagues at FYI include stuffy veteran anchor Jim Dial ( Charles Kimbrough ), who affectionately addresses Murphy as " Slugger " and reminisces about the glory days of Murrow and Cronkite.

( This show had originally been hosted by Edward R. Murrow on the U. S. CBS Radio Network from 1951 to 1955 and it was then edited in London for rebroadcast on 208 with a British style of presentation at 9: 30 PM on Sunday evenings.

The Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge is the second longest floating bridge on Earth at, whereas the longest is the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge just a few miles to the north on the same lake, built 23 years later.

* HAER Survey number HAER WA-2-Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Floating Bridge, Spanning Lake Washington at I-90, Seattle, King County, WA

The first jet aircraft to land at Hurlburt was a Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star which arrived from Ninth Air Force Headquarters, Shaw AFB, South Carolina, on 28 July 1955, piloted by Maj. J. H. Murrow and Maj. L. F. Collins.

Sevareid's work during World War II, with Edward R. Murrow as one of the original Murrow's Boys, was at the forefront of broadcasting.

He also helped keep alive another Murrow tradition at CBS that began with the interview show Person to Person.

The Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University awarded their alumnus with the Murrow Award for top leaders in the communication industry in 1999 ; Jackson was a charter member of the WSU Foundation, founded in 1979, provided scholarship money to the Murrow School and chaired the fund-raising drive for the school's alumni center.

For example, it is a frequent location for graduation ceremonies for high schools and universities, such as New York Law School, Columbia University Law School, Brooklyn Law School, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Stuyvesant High School, Edward R. Murrow High School, Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers, Polytechnic University of New York, Bronx High School of Science, Marymount Manhattan College, Juilliard School and St. George's University School of Medicine.

* The 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck, which dramatized the work of television journalists Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly at CBS, uses footage of the Army – McCarthy hearings, including Welch's challenge to the Senator.

Although Murrow was an established CBS name and Columbia Records was then owned by CBS, Friendly's next full-time work came as a news producer at NBC.

Later, he held the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Broadcast Journalism post at Columbia University.