Birthday: April 25, 1908 in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
Birth Name: Egbert Roscoe Murrow
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 Anschluss (German union with Austria), the 1939 German-Soviet invasion of Poland, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, brought him widespread renown among the public and eternal esteem among h...
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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 Anschluss (German union with Austria), the 1939 German-Soviet invasion of Poland, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, brought him widespread renown among the public and eternal esteem among his fellow journalists. Show less «
[about television] The instrument can teach, it can illuminate. Yes, and it can even inspire. But it...Show more »
[about television] The instrument can teach, it can illuminate. Yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it is merely lights and wires in a box. Show less «
"Dear Sir or Madam: You may be right." This was Murrow's standard postcard reply to any and all crit...Show more »
"Dear Sir or Madam: You may be right." This was Murrow's standard postcard reply to any and all critics who wrote to him. Show less «
