Edward R. Murrow

Actor | Writer

Date of birth : 04/25/1908

Date of death : 04/27/1965

City of birth : Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

Pioneering radio and TV reporter who was the dominant figure in American broadcast journalism during its early years. His dramatic, in-person coverage of the Anschluss (German union with Austria), the 1939 German-Soviet invasion of Poland, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, brought him widespread renown among the public and eternal esteem among his fellow journalists.