Edward P. Morgan

Reporter, author, commentator, and news anchor Edward P. Morgan was born in Walla Walla, Washington, grew up in southwestern Idaho, and was educated at Whitman College in Walla Walla. His career in journalism began at the Seattle Star and from there he became an internationally known broadcaster and reporter. His career in journalism includes stops at UPI, Colliers, and the Chicago Daily News before he hooked on with CBS News and then ABC News. Later, he worked with the Public Broadcasting Laboratory and Newsday. Morgan's reporting highlights include coverage of the assassinations of Leon Trotsky and President Kennedy, and the 1956 collision of the ocean liners the S.S. Stockholm and the S.S. Andrea Doria off the coast of Massachusetts. His daughter was a passenger on board the Andrea Doria at the time, but survived the ship's sinking. During his career, Morgan earned many news reporting honors, including the Hillman Award (radio news, ABC, 1959), the DuPont, the Polk Award (1964, for radio reporting, on ABC), and the Peabody Award (1956, for ABC Radio).