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player ready...A 29-cent commemorative was issued Friday for Edward R. Murrow, radio and television broadcaster whose World War II reports opened with “This … is London.”
First day ceremonies were be held in the Edward R. Murrow School of Communications at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. Murrow graduated from Washington State.
Murrow (1908-1965) was born Egbert Roscoe Murrow in Pole Creek, N.C. After graduation from college in 1930, he became president of the National Student Foundation and two years later was assistant director of the Institute of International Education.
In 1935, Murrow joined the Columbia Broadcasting System as director of talks and education. Shortly after, he was dispatched to London to cover the war as a one-man radio news bureau. His news reports were dramatic but accurate, and his reputation as a correspondent was bolstered by his descriptive commentary of the battle of Britain.
After reporting on the war, Murrow returned to the United States as vice president of CBS news operations. But he did not leave the microphone. In 1947, he inaugurated the “Hear It Now” radio news digest, which in 1948 was renamed “See It Now” and moved to television.
Murrow also produced and served as host of “Person to Person” (1953-1960).