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Edward R. Murrow

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Edward R. Murrow

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  • Magazine ad: the Pan-American Coffee Bureau (1953)
  • He started his distinguished career in broadcasting in 1938 and later was heard on programs including "World News Roundup" and "The News from Europe."
  • Radio: Anchored "Edward R. Murrow and the News," a daily news summary, on CBS radio from 1947-1959.
  • Radio: He hosted the radio public affairs program "Hear It Now" from 1950-1951.
  • He hosted the television interview program "Small World" from 1958-1960. Murrow spoke with three guests each week through an intercontinental hookup.
  • Starting in 1950, he hosted a year end review program on CBS-TV called "Years of Crisis" that featured many of the reporters known as "Murrow's Boys" offering their review of the year in news and a preview of the year ahead. Murrow's last year with the program was 1960.
  • He appeared (via archival footage) in two tributes aired upon his death. CBS aired "An Hour With Ed Murrow" on 27 April 1965, and ABC aired "Friends of Edward R. Murrow" on 2 May 1965.
  • Radio: Hosted the Sunday news and public affairs series "Background" for CBS Radio in 1960. The series analyzed the causes and effects of current news events.
  • On 21 January 1959, he reported on the integration crisis in Norfolk, Virginia high schools in a CBS documentary called "The Lost Class of '59."
  • On 28 April 1959, he interviewed British World War II Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery on a CBS program called "Montgomery Speaks His Mind."
  • For CBS- TV, he reported on "Resources for Freedom" on 10 January 1954. The program included warnings of a future energy crisis, based on the findings of a Presidential Commission. The program was repeated on CBS on 14 July 1974.
  • In January, 1959, he was a guest on "People and the Press," a local interview program produced by WGBH- TV in Boston.
  • On 26 November 1961, he was a guest on the ABC- TV program "Adlai Stevenson Reports." As director of the US Information Agency, Murrow spoke about the challenges of international communications.
  • Radio: He hosted the radio series "This I Believe" on CBS from 1951-55; the series featured inspirational essays from both famous and everyday Americans.
  • Radio: His radio documentaries for CBS during the 1950s included "The Green Border" (8 May 1953) about refugees from Communist countries fleeing to the West; "P.O.W.: A Study in Survival" (9 June 1958), about prisoners of war during The Korean War; and "The Business of Sex" (19 January 1959) about the sex-for-profit industry.
  • Radio: In 1959 he hosted a series of six radio programs for CBS called "The Hidden Revolution." They focused on the social consequences of scientific breakthroughs.
  • Albums: Editor and producer of a series of record albums for Columbia Masterworks called "I Can Hear it Now" (1949 and 1950, three volumes of recorded history; 1955, Winston Churchill speeches; 1956, interview with David Ben-Gurion; 1956, interview with Gamal Abdel Nasser; 1958, "Satchmo the Great" with Louis Armstrong).
  • Book: "This is London," Simon and Schuster, 1941.
  • Book: "See It Now: A Selection in Text and Pictures", Simon & Schuster, 1955.
  • In 1960, he was a guest on the WBBM-TV public affairs program "At Random," discussing the upcoming Republican National Convention.
  • Hosted the premiere broadcast of WNDT Channel 12, New York, New York, September 16, 1962. (The station later merged with National Educational Television (NET) to become WNET.)

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