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Edward R. Murrow
Age: 57 (passed away Apr. 27th, 1965)
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Birth Place: Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
Born: Apr. 25th, 1908
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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:
- 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.
- Edward R. Murrow was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- In 1962, He delivered the commencement address at his alma mater, Washington State University, and was given the Distinguished Alumnus Award. In his speech he spoke of US-Soviet relations and said he did not think war was inevitable.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors." Volume 103, pp. 355-356. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1982.
- A chain smoker who by his own admission could not go for thirty minutes without lighting up, he died from lung cancer two years after an operation to remove his left lung, at the age of 57.
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