Edward R. Murrow Add to My Celebs Age 57 (passed away Apr. 27th, 1965) Birthday Apr. 25th, 1908 Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA Height

Edward R. Murrow's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Person To Person Himself - H… Howard K. Smith Himself - G… See It Now Edward R. M…

Main Movie Roles 2002 - The Kid Stays in the Picture 1979 - Time After Time 1960 - Sink the Bismarck! 1956 - Around the World in Eighty Days

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

Pioneering radio and TV reporter who was the dominant figure in American broadcast journalism during its early years. His dramatic, in-person coverage of the 1938 German occupation of Austria, the 1939 German blitzkrieg against Czechoslovakia and the 10-month-long Battle of Britain, fought in the skies between 1940 and 1941, brought him widespread renown among the public and eternal esteem among his fellow journalists.


TRIVIA:

• Radio and TV news correspondent.
• He was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 6263 Hollywood Boulevard and for Television at 6416 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
• Murrow's public attacks on Senator 'Joseph McCarthy (II)' (qv) were prompted by the suicide of Murrow's friend, former State Department official Laurence Duggan, whom had been accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union. Responding to Murrow, McCarthy challenged him to debate 'William F. Buckley' (qv) about Communists within the U.S. Government; Morrow refused. Decrypted cables and archived documents later confirmed that Duggan was, in fact, a Soviet agent.
• He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon Johnson as he left his post as director of the US Information Agency in 1964, and he also received an honorary knighthood by the British government in 1965.
• Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors." Volume 103, pp. 355-356. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1982.
• His last broadcast was as a participant on the program "Farewell to Studio Nine," a CBS Radio tribute to the historic CBS broadcast facility upon its closure. The program aired July 25, 1964.
• The Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy was established at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1965.
• His son is named Casey.

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