Description
Radio news prior to WWII was minimal. But then CBS hired Edward R. Murrow, who in turn hired journalists such as Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Larry LeSueur. The CBS evening news roundup took listeners via shortwave radio from city to city, bringing the war viscerally into American living rooms. Listening to Murrow’s report standing on the roof of a building in London as bombs are falling around him is riveting. This talk includes actual audio clips, and demonstrates how effectively Murrow and his colleagues reported the war news.
