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Edward R. Murrow

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Edward R. Murrow

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Auction Date:2010 May 12 @ 10:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Famed American journalist (1908–1965) best known for his wartime broadcasts from London and his widely respected CBS television news shows See It Now and Person to Person. His role in exposing the hypocrisy of Red-baiting Senator Joseph McCarthy was dramatized in the acclaimed 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck. Decades long archive consisting of 14 TLSs signed “Ed,” all to Kenneth Holland of the American Youth Commission and the Institute of International Education, various letterheads (including CBS and the United States Information Agency), 1935–1964. Several excerpts follow.

October 22, 1935: “For the time being, I think we had best postpone your C.C.C. broadcast, for reasons which I will explain to you when we meet….”

February 15, 1938: “A good friend of mine, Lindsey Wellington, the No. 2 man in the Program Department of the British Broadcasting Corporation, arrives in New York on March 7th…. I should be very grateful if you could find an opportunity to see him….”

March 9, 1937: “I have been doing a little searching around to see if I could find anything for Max Schneebeli, but so far without success. I will be glad to send a note to the Carnegie people in Washington and to Kittredge of Rockefeller supporting his application. Sorry that this letter is so brief, but we are under considerable pressure in connection with the current controversy over the Supreme Court….”

July 10, 1951. “My apologies for failing to reply in time to your letter…. I assume that it is too late now for any comments of mine to be valid and I am deeply distressed to have let you down although I am sure comments from other sources gave you what you needed….”

February 11, 1959: “I thought you had selected a damned good panel and it was fun to do….” September 21, 1961 (marked “Personal & Confidential): “The [Foreign Correspondents] Center is to be run by an extraordinarily able young officer named Ernie Wiener…. I want to provide him with $100 a month for entertainment and representation and I can’t do it out of government funds. If I should cause a contribution of $1,200 to be made to the Institute, could you devise a method of passing it on to wiener, This is a wholly ridiculous state of affairs but your time in government will, I am sure, make you appreciate the difficulty involved in this kind of penny ante operation….”

In very good to fine condition, with soiling, staining, and/or chips to about five letters (affecting one signature). Most are clean and fine, with an occasional mailing fold to signature, and mild soiling and handling wear. Accompanied by three unsigned carbons of letters from Holland to Murrow.

The content of Murrow's letters offered here may vary, but overall they reveal a journalist who is serious about his profession and a man concerned by the pressures of his time. Murrow’s contributions to the Fourth Estate are legendary. During the span of this archive, Murrow covered the horrors of World War II overseas and the troubles of McCarthyism at home, in the process becoming one of journalism’s most respected names. RRAuction COA.
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