Had he lived Ed Murrow would have been 100 today.
He was a pioneer of early broadcasting and was famous for his reports from London back to the States during the second world war.He made the phrase This is London,Goodnight and Good Luck famous during those years
He was later responsible for the hiring of another icon of CBS Walter Kronkite.
In a career that lasted 25 years he did over 5000 broadcasts and wasresponsible in some way for the format of Television news.
He later took on the witch hunt of Senator John McCarthy in his programme See it Now,dedicating a special half hour programme to exposing ‘the junior senator from Wisconsin’ as a fear mongerer.He retired from CBS IN 1961 and became Director of the United States Information Agency under JFK.He died in 1965.
