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 Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. A satellite has no conscience.
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The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
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After last night`s debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
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We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men.
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When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
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Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn`t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
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(About television) The instrument can teach, it can illuminate. Yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it is merely lights and wires in a box.
"Dear Sir or Madam: You may be right." This was Murrow`s standard postcard reply to any and all critics who wrote to him.
Trivia
A chain smoker who by his own admission could not go for thirty minutes without lighting up, he died from lung cancer two years after an operation to remove his left lung, at the age of 57.
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His last broadcast was as a participant on the program "Farewell to Studio Nine," a CBS Radio tribute to the historic CBS broadcast facility upon its closure. The program aired July 25, 1964.
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Other honors he earned in his lifetime include the 1964 award from the Society of the Family of Man; two New York Newspaper Guild awards (1954, 1955); the Russwurm Award from the American Newspaper Publishers Association; the Freedom House Award (1954); two Headliners Club awards; the National Association of Broadcasters Industry Service Award (1962); the Southwest Journalism Forum award (1953); the Adult Education Award from the New School of New York (1951); the Robert E. Sherwood Television Award (1957); and the Louis Lyons Award from Harvard University (1965).
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In his career, he was honored with many awards, including the Albert Einstein Award from Brandeis University; fifteen honorary degrees (including one from his alma mater, Washington State University); nine Overseas Press Club Awards (1940, 1947, 1949 {2}, 1950, 1951, 1951, 1953, 1955); the Hillman Award (1953); the Polk Award (1951, 1952); the Grammy Award (1967, Spoken Word Album); and was a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor and an officer in the Belgian Order of Leopold.
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The Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy was established at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1965.
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In 1962, He delivered the commencement address at his alma mater, Washington State University, and was given the Distinguished Alumnus Award. In his speech he spoke of US-Soviet relations and said he did not think war was inevitable.
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He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon Johnson as he left his post as director of the US Information Agency in 1964, and he also received an honorary knighthood by the British government in 1965.
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Every year, Washington State University hosts The Murrow Symposium, named in his honor.
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Portrayed by David Strathairn in `Good Night and Good Luck`.
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Keith Olbermann uses his signature sign-off, "And so good night, and good luck," in tribute to Murrow`s work.
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His son is named Casey.
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First ever recipient of the prestigious Connor Award, distributed by the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity out of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Perhaps the most-honored graduate of Washington State University. The Communications building is named in his honor, as is the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication. Though he was indeed born in North Carolina, he grew up in western Washington state.
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Edward R. Murrow was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988.
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Pictured on a 29¢ US commemorative postage stamp issued 21 January 1994.
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Murrow`s public attacks on Senator Joseph McCarthy were prompted by the suicide of Murrow`s friend, former State Department official Laurence Duggan, whom had been accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union. Responding to Murrow, McCarthy challenged him to debate William F. Buckley about Communists within the U.S. Government; Morrow refused. Decrypted cables and archived documents later confirmed that Duggan was, in fact, a Soviet agent.
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His program "See It Now" (1951), a television version of his radio program "Hear It Now," was the first television news program to use the technique of taking its viewers away from the main studio to remote locations.
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Radio and TV news correspondent.
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Spouse: Janet Huntington Brewster (27 October 1934 - 27 April 1965) (his death) 1 child
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