Background
Edward R. Murrow was born near Greensboro, North Carolina, United States, on April 25, 1908.
He was the son of Egbert R. Murrow on Polecat Creek.
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Edward R. Murrow was America's greatest broadcaster. In Search of Light is both his permanent testament and a vivid public diary of a tumultuous era. It includes: his reports from the rooftops of wartime London, an American troopship in the Atlantic, a bomb run to Berlin, the gates of Buchenwald, the wedding of Queen Elizabeth, the Korean War, the civil rights revolution, the launches of the first rocket probes; his portraits of the great (Churchill, Eisenhower, Steven-son) and the lesser-known but equally heroic; his famous "See It Now" telecast that helped bring about McCarthy's downfall. These graceful, witty, and courageous broadcasts have set the standard for every journalist in the past half-century.
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Edward R. Murrow was born near Greensboro, North Carolina, United States, on April 25, 1908.
He was the son of Egbert R. Murrow on Polecat Creek.
He was educated at Washington State College, where he majored in speech.
He worked in logging camps during vacations from Washington State College, changing his first name in the process. Murrow began his career in international student exchange, but after his marriage to Janet Huntington Brewster he joined the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in 1935 as director of talks. In 1937 he was assigned to London as European director for CBS.
On March 13, 1938, in a broadcast from Vienna, he reported Hitler's seizure of Austria, and his reporting career was launched.
During World War II he broadcast regularly from London.
During the Korean war he made three trips to Korea to report on the fighting at first hand.
In 1953 he and Fred W. Friendly produced "Christmas in Korea, " the first television documentary on a U. S. war.
The following year, again in collaboration with Friendly, he produced a program that is credited with contributing to the political downfall of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
Murrow and Friendly collaborated in producing a radio program, "Hear It Now, " and two television series, "See It Now" and "Small World. "
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Murrow was married to Janet Huntington.