Person
Edward R. Murrow
- Specialty
- Acting
- Birth
- April 25, 1908 · 57 years
- Death
- April 27, 1965
- Origin
- Guilford County, North Carolina, USA
Technical Alias
Edward Roscoe MurrowEgbert Roscoe Murrow
Professional Trajectory
Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) 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. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys.
