Quick Facts
- NAME: Edward R. Murrow
- OCCUPATION: Radio Personality, News Anchor, Journalist
- BIRTH DATE: April 25, 1908
- DEATH DATE: April 23, 1965
- EDUCATION: Washington State University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Guilford County, North Carolina
- PLACE OF DEATH: Pawling, Dutchess County, New York
- Originally: Egbert Roscoe Murrow
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Television and radio journalist Edward R. Murrow was one of the most influential and esteemed figures in American broadcasting during its formative years.
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Profile
Television and radio journalist Edward R. Murrow was one of the most influential and esteemed figures in American broadcasting during its formative years. In 1935, he joined CBS and offered reliable and engaging eyewitness reportage of events during World War II. During America's anticommunist hysteria of the early 1950s, he produced a notable exposé of Senator Joseph McCarthy's fishy tactics.
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