This Is Edward R. Murrow

WFAU

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THIS IS EDWARD R. MURROW CBS Radio Network, 30 Apr 1965 WFAU Augusta, Maine - Archives Narrated by Robert Trout, this program was broadcast following the passing of Mr. Murrow on  April 27, 1965. Edward Roscoe Murrow, born Egbert Roscoe Murrow, was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS. Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) is best known as a CBS broadcaster and producer during the formative years of U.S. radio and television news programs from the 1930s to the 1950s, when radio still dominated the airwaves although television was beginning to make its indelible mark, particularly in the US. Over the decades, numerous publications have portrayed Murrow as one of the architects of U.S. broadcast news, but in the political climate of recent years, he is increasingly viewed as a defender of rights against McCarthy-type witch hunts. Murrow's most powerful anti-McCarthy broadcast, March 1954, on See It Now, helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.