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Murrow and Friendly had produced a notable See It Now episode on the topic the previous fall, when the show probed the case of Air Force Reserve Lieutenant Milo Radulovich, who had lost his security clearance because of the supposed leftist leanings of his sister and father — evidence the Air Force kept sealed.
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* March 9 – American journalists Edward Murrow and Fred W. Friendly produce a 30-minute See It Now documentary, entitled A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy.
It was created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, Murrow being the host of the show.
* Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly 1954 investigation for CBS's See It Now of Senator Joseph McCarthy's conduct in the anti-communism hearings and their 1960 CBS Reports television documentary, along with David Lowe, Harvest of Shame on the condition of migrant workers in agriculture.
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.
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.
Friendly later recalled how truck drivers pulled up alongside Murrow and shouted, " Good show, Ed.
Eventually, according to co-producer Friendly, Murrow and Paley had a blazing showdown in Paley's office.
The entire CBS network picked up the broadcast, later preserved in the Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly record series, I Can Hear it Now.
For months, Murrow, producer Fred Friendly and the See It Now team had debated on how to address McCarthy's witch hunt, until the Radulovich affair.
* 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.
Fred W. Friendly ( October 30, 1915 – March 3, 1998 ) was a president of CBS News and the creator, along with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now.
It was in this role that Friendly ( who had changed his name during his Providence days ) first worked with Murrow on the Columbia Records historical albums, I Can Hear It Now.
That fall, Murrow and Friendly collaborated to produce a CBS Radio documentary series inspired by their record albums — a weekly show called Hear It Now that was hosted by Murrow.
Murrow and Friendly broadcast a revealing See It Now documentary analysis on Senator Joseph McCarthy ( airing March 9, 1954 ) that has been credited with changing the public view of McCarthy, and being a key event leading to McCarthy's fall from power.
After See It Now ended in the Summer of 1958, Murrow and Friendly worked together on its successor, CBS Reports, although Friendly alone was executive producer and Murrow no more than an occasional reporter and narrator.
The first wildly-successful spoken word album was a 1948 Masterworks entry, the first I Can Hear It Now album, edited by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly and supervised by former CBS staffer J. G.
Murrow and had
Earlier this month Edward R. Murrow, director of the United States Information Agency, came to Hollywood and had dinner with more than 100 leaders of the motion picture industry.
In 1950, Cronkite joined CBS News in its young and growing television division, recruited by Edward R. Murrow, who had previously tried to hire Cronkite from UP during the war.
During her marriage to Randolph Churchill, she had romantic involvements with men such as: Averell Harriman, who much later became her third husband ; Edward R. Murrow ; and John Hay " Jock " Whitney.
Henderson, who had hoped to become Canada's answer to Edward R. Murrow, had spent several years travelling the world with his Headliners radio broadcast.
( 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 nearby Edward R. Murrow High School offers its students classes in television production and had its own student-produced local Public-access television program on BCAT called T. E. R. M.
A few months later, in an October 1959 speech before the same RTNDA that Murrow had addressed in 1958, Stanton promised there would be no repeat of the program deceptions embodied by the quiz show scandals.
( The construction of the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge in 1940 had greatly reduced demand and the continued existence of the run could no longer be justified after tolls were removed in 1949.
While the station often claims that it was the " first " news show to abandon the traditional anchor desk, this was not true, as CBS News in the United States had done this as early as the 1950s under Edward R. Murrow.
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.
His year-and-a-half tenure on the show ended in September 1947, when Murrow — who had been CBS's vice president for public affairs — returned to on-air work and took over the broadcast.
In 1948, he had to re-create his broadcast of his announcement of Japan's surrender so a " cleaned-up " version of that announcement could be included in the first of Ed Murrow and Fred Friendly's I Can Hear It Now historical albums.
WCBS fired Faulk because of declining ratings while he waited for the case to come to trial, but Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson's book The Murrow Boys asserted that WCBS executive Arthur Hull Hayes admitted on the stand the station's overall ratings, not Faulk's specifically, had slipped.
The idea for This I Believe flowed from both the WWII broadcasting experiences of Edward R. Murrow ( who had spent of the latter 1930s and most of 1940s in the United Kingdom and continental Europe ), and the emerging Cold War hostility with the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile Murrow had " covered the London air raids from the streets and rooftops ... went on 25 bombing missions over Germany and broadcast from a British minesweeper in World War II.
Murrow was not without his critics at CBS, and some of his colleagues had formed their own " Murrow-Ain't-God Club " ( ibid TIME September 30, 1957.
Music gradually decreased and in the fall of 1985, WBAL had transitioned to its current news-talk format, winning 19 national Edward R. Murrow Awards since thenthe most of any local U. S. radio station.
Frank examined the claim, repeated by Edward R. Murrow, that Polk had commanded a unit of 119 Marines on Guadacanal, flew a fighter plane that shot down 11 Japanese aircraft, and won a Purple Heart.
Murrow and produced
The " See It Now " segment on Grandma Moses, presently available on DVD in " The Edward R. Murrow Collection ", unfortunately contains but one-third of the actual 25-minute produced interview.
Murrow produced a number of episodes of the show that dealt with the Communist witch-hunt hysteria ( one of the more notable episodes resulted in a U. S. military officer, Milo Radulovich, being acquitted, after being charged with supporting Communism ), before embarking on a broadcast on March 9, 1954 that has been referred to as television's finest hour.
The first regularly scheduled network radio program produced and edited on wire was CBS ' Hear It Now with Edward R. Murrow.
He received a national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2008 for a report he wrote and produced about a soldier from Delaware, Stephen McGowan, who died in Iraq.
Murrow and notable
" Joseph McCarthy was a notable Republican Senator from Wisconsin infamous for his anti-Communist campaigning and sparring with journalist Edward R. Murrow.
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Kaye entered the world of television in 1956 through the CBS show See It Now with Edward R. Murrow.
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.
President Harry S. Truman presented her with the Women's National Press Club trophy Award for outstanding accomplishment in art in 1949, and in 1951 she appeared on See It Now, a television program hosted by Edward R. Murrow.
On his weekly news show See It Now on CBS, Murrow presented live reports from journalists on both the east and west coasts of the United States — the first program with live simultaneous transmission from coast to coast.
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.
When the quiz show phenomenon began and took the world of TV by storm in the mid-1950s, Murrow realized the days of See It Now as a Tuesday-night fixture on CBS were numbered.
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.
After CBS granted another such request — regarding a See It Now show on whether or not Alaska and Hawaii deserved statehood — Murrow complained to CBS head William S. Paley he could not continue doing the program if CBS continued to accede to such equal-time requests under those circumstances.
* Complete text and audio of Senator Joseph McCarthy's Prosecution of Edward R. Murrow on See It Now from AmericanRhetoric. com
* See It Now ( Edward R. Murrow, Howard K. Smith ) ( November 18, 1951-July 8, 1957 )
His friendship with Ed Murrow, one of the leading lights in the CBS news division ( and by then a vice president of CBS ), suffered during the 1950s over the hard-hitting tone of the Murrow-hosted See It Now series.
His case was publicized nationally by Edward Murrow on October 20, 1953, on Murrow's program, See It Now:
The Air Force stripped Radulovich of his commission, which came to the attention of Edward R. Murrow, host of the popular See It Now program on CBS.
" ( See TIME magazine, Monday, September 30, 1957:: This is Murrow ) This close relationship between Murrow, Paley, CBS and the British Establishment led to an offer after the War for Murrow to become part of the editorial diarchy at the British Broadcasting Corporation, an offer that was not endorsed by the BBC Board of Directors.
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