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Edward R. Murrow: The Government Information Films DVD, Download, USB

Edward R. Murrow: The Government Information Films DVD, Download, USB
Edward R. Murrow: The Government Information Films DVD, Download, USB
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Edward R. Murrow In Three Government Information Films He Variously Hosted, Narrated And Produced For The Nations Of Great Britain And The United States, Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD, MP4 Video Download Or USB Flash Drive! #EdwardRMurrow #ERMurrow #WarCorrespondents #Journalists #Dover #DoverKent #DoverEngland #WorldWarII #WWII #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #WorldWar2 #SecondWorldWar #ColdWar #NuclearWar #JohnWayne #LowellThomas #FrankMcGee #HelenHayes #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD


DOVER: BRITAIN'S FRONT LINE REVISITED BY EDWARD MURROW (Black/White, 1942, 10:22)
A British Ministry Of Information film released by the U.S. Office Of War Information hosted and narrated by Edward R. Murrow, then a CBS News correspondent, concerning the segment of Britain's land mass closest to German occupied Europe during World War II.

SURVIVAL UNDER ATOMIC ATTACK (Black/White, 1951, 8:45)
Edward R. Murrow narrates this film for the U.S. Office of Civil Defense that seeks to educate its audience about the destructive power of nuclear weapons, to explain the associate phenomenon of nuclear radiation, and to assure the public that they will be safe as long as they follow proper procedures. Very much a time capsule of the attitudes of this era.

COLD WAR: THE CHALLENGE OF IDEAS (Black/White, 1961, 29:34)
Edward R. Murrow, then head of United States Information Agency appointed by President John F. Kennedy, hosts this film produced with the cooperation of the U.S. Army Pictorical Center, which explains with the help of John Wayne, Lowell Thomas, Frank McGee, Helen Hayes and others the global idealogical battle between the United States. and the Soviet Union at that time. A one-of-a-kind film of the sort not to be seen recreated in our day.


Edward R. Murrow KBE, American broadcast journalist and war correspondent (1908 - 1965) was #born Egbert Roscoe Murrowat Polec at Creek, near Greensboro, in Guilford County, North Carolina. He first gained prominence in the years before and during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). He recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys, which included William L. Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, Howard K. Smith, Richard C. Hottelet and others. A pioneer of radio and television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of reports on his television program See It Now which helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy. He is considered one of journalism's greatest figures generally and broadcast journalism particularly, noted for his honesty and integrity in delivering the news.