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After 12 straight hours of bombing, the East End of London was in flames, 3,000 city dwellers were dead or injured, and Edward R. Murrow was about to become a legend. “The Blitz” Returning to London, he filed his first report of what immediately became known as “the Blitz” on September 8, from Studio B4 in the basement of Broadcasting ...
Murrow’s December 2-3 flight to Berlin was the fifth of 16 air assaults launched against the German capital between November 18, 1943, and March 2, 1944. Arthur Harris believed this air campaign ...
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Dec 18, 2019 · Edward R. Murrow's famous broadcast describing an air raid on London on August 24, 1940. Transcript: https://www.billdownscbs.com/2014/09/1940-murrow-reports...
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American radio listeners heard daily reports on the bombing from Edward R. Murrow, who was broadcasting from a studio in the subbasement of Broadcasting House, a BBC facility in London. Murrow’s reports included accounts of death and destruction, the proclamations from Parliament and the observations of ordinary Londoners – a policeman on ...
Signature. Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) [1] was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS.
Sep 20, 2015 · On September 7, 1940, waves of Nazi aircraft bombed London for 12 hours. It was the first of 57 consecutive nights of attacks on the British capital. Murrow was there to deliver the story to American homes. In a September 8 studio broadcast, he recounted the day’s events, as only he could. “Before eight, the sirens sounded again,” he ...
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Hitler hoped that the daily bombing runs would force the British people to beg their leaders to capitulate. American radio listeners heard daily reports on the bombing from Edward R. Murrow, who was broadcasting from a studio in the subbasement of Broadcasting House, a BBC facility in London. Murrow's reports included accounts of death and ...
