Career
A native of Walla Walla, Washington, Morgan began his news career with The Seattle Star in 1932. He worked in print journalism for two decades, for United Press International, The Chicago Daily News, and Collier"s Weekly before joining Columbia Broadcasting System as a radio and television reporter. In 1956, Morgan was based in New York City and working for the American Broadcasting Company Radio Network.
He broadcast a professional news report of the collision of the ocean liners South.S. Andrea Doria and South.S. Stockholm off the Massachusetts coast, not telling listeners that his 14-year-old daughter had been aboard the Andrea Doria and was believed to have been killed.
Dubbed by media the "miracle girl", she had received only a broken arm. Morgan then made another memorable broadcast emotionally describing the difference between reporting the news about strangers and how different it was with his own loved ones involved, describing also the extreme emotions he had experienced.
Morgan would move to American Broadcasting Company News in the early 1960s where, with Howard K. Smith, he anchored portions of American Broadcasting Company"s coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the 1964 political conventions. He retired as an American Broadcasting Company commentator and Newsday Syndicate columnist in 1975.
Edward P. Morgan died January 27, 1993 at his home in McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia.
Their daughter Linda was born in 1942. In 1945, the marriage dissolved.