Background
Murphy, Dennis Raymond was born on December 22, 1946 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Jack Raymond and Theresa Anne (McSorley) Murphy.
Murphy, Dennis Raymond was born on December 22, 1946 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Jack Raymond and Theresa Anne (McSorley) Murphy.
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, 1968; Juris Doctor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1971.
Murphy has covered stories for National Broadcasting Company News from more than 50 countries. As a regular contributor to National Broadcasting Company Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and Today, his assignments have given him a front-row seat for some of the biggest stories of the last two decades—from wars in the Persian Gulf and Central America to the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the Berlin Wall, and most recently, the war on terror in Afghanistan. Early career Before joining National Broadcasting Company News, Murphy was a reporter for KING-television, the National Broadcasting Company affiliate in Seattle, Washington.
He began his career as a desk assistant at WCBS-television in New York and worked for several years as an assignment editor, producer and reporter at KHOU-television in Houston, Texas.
National Broadcasting Company News Murphy began his career as an National Broadcasting Company News correspondent in 1982 at the Burbank bureau. The following year he was assigned to Miami from where he traveled extensively throughout South and Central America.
The invasion of Grenada, civil war in Nicaragua and El Salvador, a deadly volcanic eruption in Colombia and drug lords were all part of his watch in the 1980s. In 1988 he covered the Democratic presidential primaries and was National Broadcasting Company"s traveling correspondent on the Bush campaign.
Dateline National Broadcasting Company Since May 1994, Murphy has been a correspondent with Dateline National Broadcasting Company. In 1999, he was awarded an Emmy Award, Clarion Award, Harry Chapin Media Award and a National Headliner Award for "Children of the Harvest," the story about children in the United States. working as migrant laborers on farms.
In 1996, he was honored with two Emmys for his work on Dateline and an American Bar Association certificate of merit for an hour-long Dateline program on the anatomy of a civil trial. National Broadcasting Company Foreign Correspondent Before Dateline, Murphy was posted in National Broadcasting Company"s London bureau as chief foreign correspondent for Today where his stories took him literally around the world: Japan, Thailand, India, Africa, the Middle-East, and Europe. His major assignments include the revolutions of Eastern Europe in 1989, German unification, the last days of Margaret Thatcher, funerals of the Ayatollah and Emperor Hirohito.
Murphy was a frequent visitor to Moscow in the turbulent times when McDonald"s arrived and Gorbachev and seventy-five years of an old order left.
He was at the Berlin Wall the night the first West Berliner climbed it in defiance of border guards below. Murphy also covered the plight of the Kurds in Iraq following the Gulf War and reported in the early 1990s from hot spots such as Baghdad, Bosnia and Mogadishu.
Member Association General Contractors (legal advising committee), California Chamber of Commerce (laboradv. committee).
Married Tamillee Tobi Raney, May 7, 1977. Children: Ryan, Dugan.