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Edward R. Murrow, and how he took on one of the most powerful men in America, During the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy Here to tell the story is Kirk Higgins. Senior Director of Content at the Bill of Rights Institute. You can find their great curriculum. on American history at mybri.org.
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For eighteen months. Delay our research in the hydrogen bomb. Let us not assassinate this lad further. Have you known? No scent of decency serve.
It was the evening of March 9th, 1954. And veteran journalist Edward R. Murrow was about to make the most consequential television broadcast of his career. Moreau had served as a war correspondent, covering the bombings of London and Nazi concentration camps during World War II. But that evening, Murrow was engaging in a different type of battle.
Through his See It Now television program, Moreau would challenge one of the most powerful men in the United States. Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was a big risk for Murrow. But Murrow's life was filled with instances of courage and integrity that are still remembered and celebrated by broadcasters and journalists to this day. Egbert Roscoe Murrow He didn't change his name to Edward until college in 1926, majored in speech and took a radio broadcasting course that required him to create a program for the campus station.
Ironically, the man who became one of the greatest news broadcasters of all time only got a B for the chorus. But Moreau's foray into journalism and broadcasting was just beginning. This time we're headed for Columbia's Radio Playhouse. In 1935, he joined CBS, a relationship that would last for the next 26 years. He started in the business booking guests for radio programs.
But the Young Murrow was mentored by veteran broadcaster Robert Trout. a legendary radio figure in his own right. On Christmas Eve, 1936, Murrow had the opportunity to read the news on air for the first, but certainly not the last, time. using TroutScript. Moreau's career was progressing in New York.
but it was about to take a giant leap forward. In 1937, he was sent to Europe to improve the quality of CBS broadcasts from the continent. It will be war between England and Germany. This was the official statement handed out at the Foreign Office press conference this noon. War was brewing in Europe, and soon Moreau would be cast right into the thick of it.
In March 1938, about a year after Murrow arrived in Europe, Adolf Hitler annexed Austria. Murrow was on the ground in Vienna, and reported the news himself for the first time. But I said everything is Quiet. In Vienna tonight, there's a certain air of expectancy about the city, everyone waiting and wondering. Where and at what time Herr Hitler will arrive tomorrow?
CBS executives approved of his reporting and presentation style, and from that moment forward, Murrow became a correspondent. CBS's European operations were headquartered in London, where Murrow spent the bulk of World War II. This gave Murrow a front row seat for the Blitz, a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom. Moreau's broadcast became known for his catchphrases. I'm standing on a rooftop.
Looking out over London. This Is Commodore Square? The noise that you hear at the moment is the sound of the air raid siren. This is London. And good night.
Good luck. Send-off many British listeners took to heart as they often nervously awaited nighttime bombing raids. Despite spending most of his time in London, Murrow was able to occasionally venture into the field. He reported from Tunisia in North Africa in 1943 and helped expose the horrors of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1945. Warning listeners that his report would not be pleasant listening, Murrow described the death, disease, and starvation he had personally witnessed during his visit to Buchanan.
I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw and heard. but only part of it. For most of it, I have no words. Mm-hmm.
After the war, Moreau returned to the United States as head of news and public affairs for CBS. He began presenting weekly digests of news on the radio called Hear It Now. Television gained popularity in the early 50s, and he moved his show to CBS TV, renaming it See It Now. Stand by now for the 15th edition of See It Now with Edward R. Murrow.
Which originates in the control room of Studio 41 in New York City. All of this occurred against the backdrop of the rising popularity of Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy had been sworn in as a first-term senator from Wisconsin in 1947. In 1950, he began to tap into Americans' growing fears about communism in the wake of several communist spy rings selling atomic secrets to the Soviets. who used the knowledge to explode an A-bomb in 1949.
McCarthy claimed that the State Department was, quote, riddled with communists and professed to have a list of 205 names. As time went on, his finger pointing continued. At every opportunity, he blamed what he saw as the deteriorating morality of America on suspected communists. As a journalist, Murrow fervently believed that the press ought to seek and uncover the truth. He thought it was the responsibility of a free press to hold public officials accountable.
He also believed that communist threats abroad and at home could best be countered by free and open expression at home. In October 1953, Moreau aired the report that would signal the beginning of a public conflict with. Carthy. Moreau learned that the Air Force Reserve had dismissed a young lieutenant, Milo Radulevich, because his father and sister were thought to hold, quote, un-American views. While no one accused Radulevich of having the same views, authorities recommended that he condemn his father and sister in order to save his position.
Radulevich refused, declaring that such an action was not what it meant to be an American. When Murrow aired the story on See It Now, he openly questioned the evidence for the charges, stating: Was it hearsay, rumor, gossip, slander? Or was it hard, ascertainable fact that could be backed by creditable witnesses? We do not know. Radulovich's commission was reinstated.
Murrow had publicly and successfully challenged McCarthy. But the spat between the two men was far from over. Murrow learned that he too was on McCarthy's attack list. The senator's so-called evidence that Moreau was on the Soviets' payroll was that he worked during the 1930s as an advisor to the Institute of International Education. That organization sponsored exchange seminars between American and Soviet professors.
McCarthy may have harbored hopes of damaging Moreau's reputation. But ultimately, it was Murrow who helped bring an end to McCarthy and his war. Wild accusations. As Moreau took to the air for his March 9, 1954 See It Now broadcast, he looked serious and composed. Good evening.
Again. Because a report on Senator McCarthy is by definition controversial. We want to say exactly what we mean to say. Our working thesis tonight is this quotation. If this fight against communism is made a fight between America's two great political parties, The American people know that one of these parties will be destroyed.
and the Republic cannot endure very long. as a one-party system. We applaud that statement. And we think Senator McCarthy ought to. He said it 17 months ago in Milwaukee.
Moreau's strategy was to report on the facts of McCarthy's tactics, without condemning or slandering him. He wanted the public to hear what the senator had done and said in the Army McCarthy hearings investigating communism in the military. Then the public could consider the evidence and come to their own conclusions. The See It Now broadcast offered a portrait of Joseph McCarthy in his own words. The American people realize that this cannot be made a fight.
Between America's two great political parties. Moreau showed the public reels of footage of the senator, McCarthy mocking President Dwight Eisenhower. McCarthy insulting an Army general. McCarthy challenging the integrity of his critics, and McCarthy telling half-truths. Moreau concluded the show with the words, quote, We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
We must remember always that accusation is not proof. and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason. If we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, And remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular. Following the broadcast, public opinion shifted sharply against McCarthy. Six days later, McCarthy demanded a chance to respond. and Murrow and CBS agreed to a second broadcast. In his rebuttal, McCarthy referred to Murrow, among other things, as, quote, the leader of the jackal pack.
of his opponents. The appearance did little to restore public confidence in McCarthy. The senator's hold on the nation had ended. Nine months later, the United States Senate censored Joseph McCarthy. Moreau was not the only journalist who challenged McCarthy.
But he is credited with skillfully using a new medium, television, so that the American people could consider the validity of the senator's views. As Murrow later acknowledged, quote, the timing was right and the instrument was powerful. Powerful. There was a great conspiracy of silence at the time. When there is such a conspiracy and somebody makes a loud noise, it attracts all the attention.
Upon Morrow's passing, President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had once awarded Murrow the Presidential Medal of Freedom. called Moreau a gallant fighter who had, quote, dedicated his life as a newsman and as a public official to the unrelenting search for truth. And a special thanks to Kirk Higgins, the Senior Director of Content. the Bill of Rights Institute.
The story of Edward R. Murrow vs. Senator McCarthy here. on our American stories. Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bone Show.
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