Murrow vs. McCarthyMarch 9, 1954

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Edward R. Murrow “Father of Broadcast Journalism”

• WWII Broadcast journalist• 1937-1945: reported on war in Europe.• Broadcast team: Murrow’s Boys.• Flew in more than 20 bombing

missions; along with Bill Shadel, he was the first Allied correspondent to report on the concentration camps

• Radio Show: Hear it Now• TV Show: See it Now (CBS)• Addressed political and social issues in

both venues.• Milo Radulovich case put him on

McCarthy’s communist sympathizer list.

• March 9, 1954 show ended McCarthy’s witch hunts.

• Person to Person (1953-1961):celebrity interview TV show; prototype for contemporary interview shows featuring famous/infamous people.

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We cannot make good news out of bad practice. Edward R. Murrow

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No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. Edward R. Murrow

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful. Edward R. Murrow

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Joseph McCarthy“Father of McCarthyism”

• U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.• Intelligence Officer (Captain): Marines.

Served: Pacific in WWII.• Lincoln Day Speech (2/19/50) accused

over 200 State Department employees of being Communists.

• Tydings Committee (3/8/50- 7/17/50) found no grounds for the Lincoln Day charges.

• Goal: to weed out American citizens and non-citizens who were Communist Party members.

• Gave birth to the term, McCarthyism.• 1953:headed Committee on Government

Operations and subcommittee on investigations.

• Accused members of President Harry Truman’s administration, Voice of America the U.S. Army as harboring Communist infiltrators.

• Censored by the Senate in 1954.• Died, 1957.

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"I have here in my hand a list of twohundred and five [people] that wereknown to the Secretary of State asbeing members of the Communist Partyand who nevertheless are still workingand shaping the policyof the State Department."

Source: Joseph Mccarthy

"McCarthyism is Americanismwith its sleeves rolled."

Source: Joseph Mccarthy

"You are seeing today an all out attemptto marshal the forces of the opposition,using not merely the communists, or theirfellow travelers-the deluded liberals, theeggheads, and some of my good friendsin both the Democratic and Republican Partieswho can become heros over night in the eyesof the left-wing press if theywill just join with the jackal pack"

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And McCarthy Says…

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Murrow vs. McCarthy

In Murrow’s Corner: In McCarthy’s Corner: The Kennedy Family Roy Cohn: McCarthy’s chief

counsel. G. Davis Schine: McCarthy aide. Father John Francis Cronin: anti-

communist author. HUAC: House UnAmerican

Activities:“Are you now or have you ever been a communist?”

Milo Radulovich: AiR Force reserve lieutenant of Serbian descent. Discharged From the service and stripped of his commission because his father read newspapers from Serbia and his sister Followed liberal causes. Murrow aired his case on his show See it Now on October 20, 1953.Fred Friendly: Co-producer (with Murrow) of See it Now.Joseph Wershba: writer, editor and correspondent for CBS.William Paley: chief executive of CBS.Don Hollenbeck: CBS journalist, accused of being a “pinko”. wpcontent.answers.

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Murrow vs. McCarthyFinal Remarks

Murrow:

• [T]he line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one and the junior senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. … 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. … (W)e 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. This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent. …

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McCarthy:• Now, ordinarily--ordinarily--I would not take time

out from the important work at hand to answer Murrow. However, in this case, I feel justified in doing so because Murrow is a symbol,a leader and the cleverest of the jackal pack which is always found at the throat of anyone who dares to expose individual Communists and traitors. And I am compelled by the facts to say to you that Mr. Edward R. Murrow, as far back as twenty years ago, was engaged in propaganda for Communist causes…Now, Mr. Murrow said on this program--and I quote--he said: "The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have given considerable comfort to the enemy." That is the language of our statute of treason -- rather strong language. If I am giving comfort to our enemies, I ought not to be in the Senate. If, on the other hand, Mr. Murrow is giving comfort to our enemies, he ought not to be brought into the homes of millions of Americans by the Columbia Broadcasting System.

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