I knew I needed something to commemorate the 100th birthday anniversary of Edward R. Murrow, and spent quite a while going through his various reports…but I consistently came back to this program, broadcast on CBS after Murrow’s death on April 27, 1965. I am, honestly, unclear on the broadcast date, as most references list it as being broadcast on April 30, 1965, but at the University of Texas, the Joseph and Shirley Wershba Papers list the date of their recording, on seven-inch reel, as April 29th. This discrepancy may come from there being a version of this documentary broadcast on CBS television. It was also released as a record album on Columbia Special.

No matter, it seemed a little odd to play a tribute after death on the centennial of his birth…yet there isn’t really any other single broadcast to so throughly review his broadcasting career, with obvious respect and affection. The program is narrated by Robert Trout, a legend in his own right, and contains sections from all of the most famous broadcasts; D-Dog, Buchenwald, the case of Milo Radulovich, Senator Joseph McCarthy, and many many more.

We originally received this program from our friend Terry Salomonson of Audio Classics - there are thousands of programs like this one in his catalog. This one is to celebrate the career of the most important broadcast journalist in the history of the medium.

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