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In 1935, Ed Murrow
began his career with CBS.
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When World War Two broke out...
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...his voice brought
the battle of Britain home to us...
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...through his "This Is London"
radio series.
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He started with us all...
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...many of us here tonight,
when television was in its infancy...
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...with the news documentary show,
"See It Now'.
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He threw stones at giants.
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Segregation, exploitation
of migrant workers...
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...apartheid, J. Edgar Hoover...
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...not the least of which, his historical
fight with Senator McCarthy.
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He is the host of our enormously
popular show "Person to Person"...
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...and tonight he is here
with his son, Casey...
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...wife, Janet, and all of you
who he's worked with...
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...inspired, lectured, and taught.
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Ladies and gentlemen...
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...the Radio-Television News Directors'
Association and Foundation welcomes...
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...Mr. Edward R. Murrow.
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This might just do nobody any good.
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At the end of this discourse
a few people may accuse this reporter...
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...of fouling
his own comfortable nest...
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...and your organization may be
accused of having given hospitality...
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...to heretical
and even dangerous ideas.
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But the elaborate structure
of networks...
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...advertising agencies, and sponsors
will not be shaken or altered.
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It is my desire, if not my duty,
to try to talk to you journeymen...
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...with some candor about what
is happening to radio andtelevision.
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And if what I say is responsible...
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...I alone am responsible
for the saying ofit.
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Our history will be
what we make of it.
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And if there are any historians
about 50 or 100 years from now...
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...and there should be preserved...
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...the kinescopes of one week
of all three networks...
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...they will there find recorded
in black and white, and in color...
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...evidence of decadence,
escapism...
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...and insulation from the realities
of the world in which we live.
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We are currently wealthy, fat,
comfortable, and complacent.
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We have a built-in allergy to
unpleasant or disturbing information.
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Our mass media reflect this.
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But unless we get up off
our fat surpluses...
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...and recognize
that television in the main...
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...is being used to distract, delude,
amuse, and insulate us...
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...then television
and those who finance it...
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...those who look at it
and those who work at it...
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...may see atotally
different picture too late.
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Millie! Just the person
I wanted to see! Come here!
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This goes at the top
of the Roy Campanella piece.
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Yes! Give me a half an hour.
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I may need it
a little quicker than that!
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- Can I get some coffee first?
- Come on! Get me some coffee!
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Morning, Johnny!
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I have some new notes that go
with the Tito footage for Fred.
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Fred's gonna be in
in an hour.
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I already put them on his desk.
Can you just make sure that...
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...he doesn't look at the film
until he reads the notes?
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- Yes.
- Thank you.
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Hey, Joe! Shirley!
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- What's going on in here?
- What do you mean?
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Two attractive people
alone in the copy room!
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Don't tell Paley, he'll fire me.
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He'll fire both of us, Shirley.
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- Rules are made to be broken!
- You can afford to say that.
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Let me see this.
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- It's simply a loyalty oath.
- To CBS? - And to America.
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You promise to be a loyal American?
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I know. All of the reporters
have signed this.
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Who are you promising this to?
CBS?
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Fred signed it.
Murrow signed it.
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- Murrow signed it?
- Yeah.
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Are you now
or have you ever been...
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I thought it was a joke,
but there's a lot of pressure.
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...on the Attorney General's list
of subversive groups?
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- I don't know.
- Let's think about it.
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What is it really saying? Is it a civil
liberties issue or censorship?
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Am I simply stating to CBS
that I'm not a Communist?
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- Murrow signed this?
- And Fred and Stanton.
-
- Maybe you should talk toMurrow.
- Maybe I should sign it.
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If you don't sign this,
are you and I a target?
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If I don'tsign it,
they'll fire me.
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Sign it.
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Finally we can tell everyone
the truth.
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If I could express it
in what's in my heart now...
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...I'd do it in the terms
of the poet who once said...
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..."Ah, 'tis but a dainty flower
I bring to you."
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'Yes, 'tis but a violet..."
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"...glistening with dew."
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"But still in its heart
there lie beauties concealed."
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"So in our heart..."
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"...our love for you..."
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"...lies unrevealed."
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I used to...
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...pride myself on the idea
that I was a bit... tough...
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...especially over the past
19-19 months, when we've been...
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...kicked around,
and bullwhipped, and damned.
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I didnt think that...
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...I could be... touched very deeply.
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Okay, that's enough.
That's enough, Leo.
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- It's short.
- Howlong is the piece?
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It's 4 minutes,
but we can cut it down.
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It cant stand alone, but it might be
a nice companion piece.
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Let's go through this one more time.
Palmer!
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Yep, got a call from the office
of Senator Morse this morning...
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...interested in setting up
a debate possibly with Senator Kerr...
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...over the comments
Bentsen made on last night's show.
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Secretary of Agriculture? Good idea!
Can they do it by this week?
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No, it would have to be 2 weeks
at the earliest...
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...depending on Morse's schedule.
But still it's a great idea.
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Let's follow up on that.
"Hoover speaks on Benjamin Franklin."
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We're having better luck
with Mr. Benjamin Frankin...
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...than with Mr. Hoover.
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It may progress better
as a "Person to Person".
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"At home with Ben Frankin.
His electricity awards."
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We've got the footage,
we need to contact him.
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See if you can contact him and get the
shot. He wants to do the story. Joe!
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Member Delbert Clark?
No longer with us.
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- New York Times? - Yeah.
- Our friend at the Times.
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This was yesterday morning,
they're saying it's...
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- How old was he?
- 53. Sudden illness.
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- Home of a friend.
- No, it's not a nobit piece.
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Natalie send some flowers
over there from us.
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Couple things.
Case before the Supreme Court...
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...involving the constitutionality of a
section of the Internal Security Act...
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...provides for the deportation
of any alien...
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...if he becomes a Communist
after entering this country.
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Can you take this?
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All right. McCarthy interrupting
his wedding trip...
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...to take charge of the investigation
of Communist infiltration...
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- Natalie, send some flowers.
- Poor Mrs. McCarthy!
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May I finish?
It's national security!
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- A real ladies' man!
- Well, they're in love.
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We have no show for Tuesday, fellows.
So get out there and make some news.
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Rob a bank. Mug an old lady.
Do something.
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- You look at the Secretary Stevens
footage? - We will.
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Watch it all the way to the end,
it's worth it.
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Thank you, John.
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There's notmuch there.
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I can't tie it to the Eisenhower
in the back of the train piece.
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- You ever spend any time in Detroit,
Fred? - Not recently.
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There's a story here
in the Detroit News, Dexter, Michigan.
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A kid named Milo Radulovich.
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- Italian? - Irish. Air Force
kicked him out because his dad...
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...reads ome Serbian newspaper.
- Was he a Communist? - I don't know.
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- Who brought the charges?
- Air Force.
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Charges were in a sealed envelope,
nobody saw them.
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- Not even at the hearing? - He was
declared guilty without a trial...
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...and told if he wanted
to keep his job...
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...he had to denounce his father
and his sister. Thank you, Natalie.
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- His sister?
- He told them to take a hike.
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Let's send Joe and Charlie down there,
see if he's any good on camera.
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Is he being brought
before the Committee?
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No.
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Then it's not McCarthy.
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Isn't it?
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Milo Radulovich.
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What happens to your children...
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...your 5-year-old and your 5-month-old
in terms of you?
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If I am being judged
on my relatives...
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...are my children going
to be asked to denounce me?
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Are they going to be judged
on what their father was labeled?
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Are they going to have to explain
to their friends, etc...
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...why their father
is a security risk?
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If the thing is let stand
as it, the first recommendation...
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...was sent out by the board,
I see a chain reaction that...
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...has no end to anybody,
for anybody.
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Well, that's new.
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You can't call this
a neutral piece.
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The other side's been represented
rather well for the last 2 years.
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The Air Force
hasn't gone on the record.
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So you want to forego the standards
you've stuck to for 15 years...
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...both sides, no commentary.
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- We all editorialize. - I'm just
making sure we identify what...
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We're giving them
the information up front...
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...and we're asking them
to comment on it.
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Frank, hold on.
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I've searched my conscience.
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I can't for the life of me
find any justification for this.
-
I simply cannot accept
that there are, on every story...
-
...two equal and logical sides
to an argument.
-
- Call it editorializing, if you'd like.
- It is editorializing.
-
They'll have equal time
to defend themselves.
-
Do you understand the position
you're putting us in?
-
We are all in this together,
if the Senate wants to investigate...
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Do me a favor...
-
...avoid any big speeches about how
we're all in a big boat together!
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Please, don't insult me.
-
I have to go back to Mr. Paley
and Alcoa, who sponsors your show...
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...and also have
some military contracts...
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...and I have to tell them that
they're going to be in a tough bind...
-
...because of a beef you had
with Joe McCarthy.
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- We're not going at McCarthy.
- You're starting the goddamn fire.
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Excuse me. Mr. Friendly,
there's a Colonel Anderson to see you?
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- Colonel? - He's in your office.
There are two of them.
-
Maybe they liked the transcript,
and want to compliment us on it.
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Excuse me.
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Go after Joe Kennedy.
We'll pay for it.
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I've got a great story about Hoover.
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You know how many shows
you're going to have to do...
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...to make up for this? - And Judy
and her daughter Liza next week.
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No, no.
You're interviewing Rin Tin Tin!
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I'll talk to Mr. Paley.
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Alcoa wont pay for the ads.
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And we probably wont either.
But nobody'll stop you.
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How much are the ads?
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- 3,000.
- I'll split it with Fred.
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He just won't have Christmas presents
for his kids this year.
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- He's a Jew. - Don't tell him that,
he loves Christmas.
-
- To be clear, you did speak
with the lawyers? - Yes, we did.
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And we read the transcript. We've not
been allowed to see the footage.
-
Mack is on a plane from Dexter
right now with the last interviews.
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We'll be going
right down to the wire.
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Your show airs tomorrow. How can we
possibly approve and check...
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...your story in the limited amount
of time you have given us?
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With all due respect, you have been
invited to participate in this piece...
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...not to approve it.
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We are going with the story
that says that the U.S. Air Force...
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...tried Milo Radulovich
without any evidence...
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...and found him guilty
of being a security risk...
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...without his Constitutional rights...
- You have not seen the evidence...
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...and are claiming
he's not a security risk.
-
Wouldn't you guess that those who have
seen the contents of that envelope...
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...might have a better idea of what
makes someone a danger to his country?
-
- Who? Who? - Or do you think
it should just be you that decides?
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Who are the people?
Are they elected? Are they appointed?
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Do they have an axe to grind?
Is it you, sir?
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Or you, Colonel Jenkns? Do you know
the contents of that sealed envelope?
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We have been a friend and ally of both
Mr. Murrow and CBS News for many years.
-
The story you are going
to run tomorrow is without merit.
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So before you take any steps
that cannot be undone...
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...I strongly urge you
to reconsider your stand.
-
These are very dangerous waters
you are attempting to navigate.
-
We have had no hearing at all.
We have had noday in court.
-
In all the 32 years that I have been
a practicing attorney in Detroit...
-
...I have never witnessed such a farce
and travesty upon justice...
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...as this thing has developed.
-
- Now this whole theory...
- Eddie, just take the first reel.
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Tell John I left
5 seconds extra leader.
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5 seconds! I got it! Palmer,
where's Joe? Have you seen Joe?
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He's on his way
to the control room.
-
We're gonna have to do
the voice-over live.
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Natalie, I need a booth
with a live mic.
-
Booth is there, it's already set.
-
We didn't have time
to sync the voice-over out.
-
That's not what I asked for.
-
It's missing the voice-over
on the last piece.
-
There's a commercial in the booth.
What shall I do?
-
- 2 minutes to air! - There's not
supposed to be a commercial!
-
Get himout of the booth!
-
2-and-a-half minutes
on the end piece.
-
Keep it down, please.
It's a little loud.
-
2 minutes to air, fellas.
-
- He's gonna add a joke.
- Charlie, loan me your lighter.
-
Make sure you know that I swap
with those two pieces of parents.
-
- As long as he talks fast because...
- He will talk fast.
-
We got the film.
-
Will it be ready?
-
You bet.
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Funny thing, Freddy!
-
Every time you light a cigarette
for me, I know you're lying.
-
It occurs t ome
we might not get away with this one.
-
Alcoa, the aluminum company
of America...
-
- 10 seconds.
- You fellas, ready? Okay.
-
Ready on camera 1.
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5, 4,3, 2.
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Pan, camera 1.
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Good evening.
-
A few weeks ago there occurred a few
obscure notices in the newspapers...
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...about Milo Radulovich...
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...a lieutenant
in the Air Force Reserves.
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And, also, something about Air Force
regulation 35-62...
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...which states that a man
may be regarded as a security risk...
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...if he has close and continuing
association with Communists...
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...or people believed
to have Communist sympathies.
-
Lieutenant Radulovich was asked
to resign in August. He declined.
-
A board was called
and heard his case.
-
At the end it was recommended that
he be severed from the Air Force...
-
...although it was also stated
that there was no question whatever...
-
...as to the Lieutenant's loyalty.
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We propose to examine,
in so far as we can...
-
...the case of Lieutenant Radulovich.
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Our reporter, Joe Wershba,
cameraman, Charlie Mack.
-
This is the town of Dexter, Michigan.
Population 1500.
-
This statue is at the end
of Ann Arbor Street erected by...
-
What did the General
tell you yesterday?
-
- A Colonel. There were two of them.
- That makes a General.
-
They weren't too pleased.
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You're gonna get audited this year.
-
Not me, you. I told them
I didn't want to do the story.
-
- You always were yellow.
- Better than red.
-
In 10 seconds.
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This is the sister,
Margaret Radulovich Fishman.
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She neither defends nor explains
her political activities.
-
I feel that my activities,
be what they may...
-
...or my political beliefs
are my own private affair.
-
Are my children going to be asked
to denounce me?
-
Are they going to be judged
on what their father was labeled?
-
Are they going to have to explain
to their friends, etc...
-
...why their father
is a security risk?
-
I see, absolutely,
that this is a chain reaction.
-
If the thing is let stand as it,
the first recommendation...
-
...was sent out by the board
I see a chain reaction...
-
...that has no end to anybody,
for anybody.
-
Perhaps you will permit me
to read a few sentences...
-
...because I would like to say
rather precisely what I mean.
-
We have told the Air Force
that we will provide facilities...
-
...for any comments, criticisms,
or corrections it may wish to make...
-
...as to the case of Milo Radulovich.
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We are unable to judge the charges
against his father or sister...
-
...because neither we, nor you,
nor they, nor the lawyers...
-
...nor the Lieutenant, know what was
contained in that manila envelope.
-
Was it hearsay,
rumor, gossip, slander...
-
...or hard ascertainable facts that
could be backed by credible witnesses?
-
We do not know.
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We believe the son shall not bear
the iniquity of the father.
-
Even though that iniquity be proved
and in this case it was not.
-
But we believe too that this case
illustrates the urgent need...
-
...for the Armed Forces to communicate
more fully than they have so far done...
-
...the procedures and regulations
to be followed...
-
...in attempting to protect
the national security...
-
...and the rights of the individual
at the same time.
-
Whatever happens in this area
of the relationship...
-
...between the individual
and the state...
-
...we will do it ourselves...
-
...it cannot be blamed on Malenkov
or Mao Tse-Tung or even our allies.
-
And, it seems to us,
Fred Friendly and myself...
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...that this is a subject
that should be argued about endlessly.
-
Good night, and good luck.
-
And we'reout.
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May I tell you something
about yourself...
-
May I tellyou something
about yourself...
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...as a member
of the "Person to Person" audience?
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Based on audience
research studies...
-
...you are well above average
in education and intelligence.
-
Your interests are wide,
from world affairs and science...
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...to sports and show business.
-
And you have one characteristic
that's rather encouraging to me...
-
...and that's the fact that you are
not easily persuaded by advertising.
-
The makers of Kent considered
all these characteristics...
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...when they chose
Mr. Murrow'sprogram...
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...to tell you about Kent.
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Of all leading filter cigarettes,
Kent filter's best.
-
If you try Kent with that in mind,
I think you'll agree...
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...with many other thinking people
who havec hanged to Kent.
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They find that it makes good sense
to smoke Kent and good smoking, too.
-
- Did you get the changes?
- Edward Murrow, "Person to Person"...
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...on the CBS Television Network.
- No, no. You there? Okay. We got it.
-
Now back to Ed Murrow.
-
Not since the silent movies
and the idols they produced...
-
...has Hollywood witnessed the sort
of pilgrimage that is now going on.
-
Each day, oblivious to time,
weather, and the state of the world...
-
...sightseers head in the direction
of California's San Fernando Valley.
-
For there, at the end
of the tourist line, is Sherman Oaks...
-
...and the home Liberace
has built for himself and his mother.
-
This is the front and nobody knows
how many people have seen that view.
-
This is the back of the house
and that's Liberace's bedroom.
-
- Good evening, Lee.
- Good evening, Ed.
-
- What are you doing? - I'm dictating
my weekly syndicated newspaper column...
-
...and on my trusty tape recorder here,
I'm also dictating a book.
-
- It's an inspirational book.
- Lee, what about you?
-
Have you given much thought
to getting married and settling down?
-
Actually, I've given
a lot of thought to it...
-
...but I don't believe in getting married
just for the sake of getting married.
-
I want to someday
find the perfect mate...
-
...and settle down to what I hope will
be a marriage that will be blessed...
-
...by faith
and will be a lasting union.
-
I was reading
about lovely young Princess Margaret...
-
...and she's lookng
for her dream man, too...
-
...and I hope she finds him someday.
-
Uh-huh. Lee, thanks very much
for letting us come and visit you.
-
It's been very pleasant.
-
And will you say goodnight
to your family for us?
-
- I certainly will.
- Thanks a lot.
-
- Good night, Ed.
- Good night, Lee.
-
Next week, we'll take you
to Beverly Hills, California...
-
...to the house of Mickey Rooney
and his newbride.
-
Until then,
good night, and good luck.
-
Good show, Mr. Murrow!
-
Excuse me, Mr. Murrow.
-
Could you take a look at this
and sign it for me, please?
-
Thank you. Dr. Stanton
would like to have a drink with you.
-
- When?
- Now. He's at the Pentagon Bar.
-
I can't. What the hell
is he doing there?
-
- I believe he's waiting for you.
- Just call him! - Fine.
-
- Oppenheimer next week.
- It's a good show, Ed.
-
- Hey, Don!
- Ed!
-
You're getting good at this!
-
They're gonna think you like it!
-
Pays the bills. How are you, Don?
-
Ah, it's...
-
...day today.
-
If she saw how good you look
right now, she'd be back.
-
You tell her that
if you see her, will you?
-
- I read the O'Brian piece.
- Yeah, it's tough.
-
I'm a pinko.
I slant the news.
-
I'm just waiting for him
to say my wife left me too.
-
- Nobody worth their salt reads him.
- You read him.
-
Well, see, I rest my case.
-
- Does Paley read him?
- Bill Paley's not gonna do anything.
-
Thanks, Ed.
-
I just came by to tell you
how great the Lieutenant piece was.
-
- Thanks. - How's the fallout?
- Mostly good, surprisingly.
-
Is this the start?
Are you taking sides?
-
It's just a little poke
with a stick, see what happens.
-
You let me know if I can help.
-
But you're a pinko.
-
I'll see you.
-
Hey, Joe! What's all this
Radulovich junk you're putting out?
-
I can't talk to you now. I have
to get this film back to New York.
-
What would you say if I told you...
-
...that Murrow was
on the Soviet payroll in 1935?
-
- Uh! Charlie, you wanna...
- Sure. I'll set up outside.
-
McCarthy going
tot he Eisenhower dinner?
-
- I have no idea. Id on't keep the
Senator's calendar for him! - Really?
-
Have you ever seen any spy films?
You don't hand me a classified folder!
-
You're supposed to slip it
into my briefcase!
-
I didnt know who to give
this information to, Paley or Murrow.
-
As you can imagine, Fred and I
aren't very friendly. No pun intended.
-
No pun elocuted.
-
- What do you got, Donald?
- In short?
-
Murrows been a Communist
sympathizer since the 1930's.
-
Member of the International Workers,
sponsored educational trips to Moscow...
-
...and on the Sovietpayroll
in 1935. It's all there.
-
You wanna know
why that's not possible?
-
Why you'll lose this one?
-
Because everyone in this country...
-
...knows that Ed Murrow
is a loyal American, he's apatriot.
-
Did you know the word "gullible"
isn't in the dictionary?
-
- Can I give this to him?
- I'd love it! I have copies!
-
I think you guys go too far.
-
Well, if it walks like a duck,
talks like a duck.
-
Yes, Mr. Paley.
-
Right away.
Yes, sir.
-
No, he hasn't called.
-
Yes, sir, the second he calls.
If you're in a meeting, shall I?
-
Yes, sir.
Of course, sir.
-
Mr. Murrow!
-
Mr. Paley will see you now.
-
- Mr. Paley, Mr. Murrow is here.
- Thanks, Miss Mary.
-
- Hello, Ed. - Bill...
- Sit over here, will you?
-
How's Janet?
-
- Your son?
- All well, thanks. How's Babe?
-
She's fine. Her fundraiser
got rained on, so...
-
- Oh! That's why I never plan
on anything. - Really?
-
You'd never know.
-
Reading fiction?
-
I hope so. You tell me.
-
Now we know
how they're gonna come at us.
-
That's just the first shot.
Somebody's going to go down.
-
Have you checked your facts?
Are you on safe ground?
-
- Bill, it's time. Show our cards.
- My cards.
-
You lose, what happens?
5 guys find themselves out of work.
-
I'm responsible for a lot more
than 5 goddamn reporters. Let it go.
-
McCarthy will self-destruct,
Cohn, all of them.
-
You said Corporate
would not interfere with Editorial...
-
...and that the News
was to be left...
-
We don't make the news,
we report the news.
-
He's marked as Communists.
-
If he goes too far,
the Senate will investigate him...
-
...and we will report on that.
-
He oversteps people's civil liberties.
-
And you're trying him in the press?
-
Does he get the right
to face his accuser?
-
You've decided on this
and you're presenting it as fact.
-
- What I am doing...
- I write your check.
-
I put you in your country house,
and I put your son through school!
-
You should have told me about this
before it went so far down the road!
-
Everyone of your boys needs to be
clean. Do you understand? No ties.
-
If Aaron's mother went to a group
fundraiser in 1932, he's out.
-
Hewitt, too. Anyone in that room.
You make no mistake...
-
...I will cut them loose. Corporate
won't interfere with Editorial.
-
But Editorial will not jeopardize
the hundreds of employees...
-
...of the CBS.
Do I make myself clear?
-
Yes?
-
Fellas, our next show is gonna be
about Senator McCarthy.
-
And we'regonna go right at him.
-
I don't need to tell you
how careful we have to be.
-
If we are to do this, Ed and I
need you to be straight with us.
-
We need to know,
for the good of the piece...
-
...if any of you have any connection,
if you subscribed to a newsletter...
-
...if you attended a party,
anything...
-
...anything that could compromise this,
anything at all...
-
...because now would be
the time to tell us.
-
Ed, I think I should excuse myself.
-
Palmer, you kidding?
-
My ex was a...
I wouldn't say she was a Communist...
-
...but she attended meetings.
It was before we were married.
-
I didn't even really know about it
until after the divorce.
-
But it was different then.
We were all on the same side.
-
I'm not telling you anything
you don't know. The thing is...
-
...somebody'll find out.
-
They'll hurt us with it.
-
I should have told you sooner, Ed,
I'm sorry.
-
Fred.
-
If none of us had ever read
a "dangerous" book...
-
...or had a friend
who was "different"...
-
...or never joined an organization
that advocated "change"...
-
...we'd all be the kindof people
Joe McCarthy wants.
-
We're gonna go with the story,
because the terror is in this room.
-
John! Jesse!
Go through the HUAC hearings.
-
Eddie! Palmer! Look at who
did the interviews and any speeches.
-
Okay, fellas, here we go.
-
His own words,
that's what we need.
-
...said that he wouldn't remove
a General from the Army...
-
...who supported a Communist Major.
I said, "Then, General..."
-
"...you should be removed
from any command."
-
"Any man who says, "I will protect
and honor a General'..."
-
"...'who protects Communists', is not
fit to wear that uniform, General."
-
Ethically, we're fine.
-
But legally, if we air this, are we
leaking closed hearing testimony?
-
- But he chose to read it.
- We're not misquoting him.
-
- There are other reporters.
- If it's a legal issue, it's his.
-
I'll check with Campbell in Legal.
-
And wait till you hear
the bleeding hearts...
-
...scream and cry about our methods...
-
...of trying to drag the truth...
-
...from those who know
or should know...
-
...who covered up
a Fifth Amendment Communist Major.
-
But they say, "Oh..."
-
"...it's all right to uncover them,
but don't get rough doing it, McCarthy."
-
Did a Civil Liberties Union provide
you with an attorney at that time?
-
I had many offers of attorneys...
-
...and from the American Civil Liberties
Union, too. - The question is:
-
...did the Civil Liberties Union
supply you with an attorney?
-
- They did supply an attorney.
- The answer is yes?
-
The answer is yes.
-
You know the Civil Liberties Union
has been listed...
-
...as a front for and doing the work
of the Communist Party?
-
Mr. Chairman, this was 1932!
-
I know this was in 1932.
-
Do you know that they since
have been listed...
-
...as a front for and doing the work
of the Communist Party?
-
I do not know
that they have been listedso, sir.
-
- You don't know?
- I have heard that mentioned...
-
All right, Leo. Turn it off.
-
- I need those three cans of Stevens!
- Has anybody read this book yet?
-
It would be nice
if this guy isn't a Commie.
-
- Did Millie give it to you?
- I wanna read the book.
-
- Nobody else, Joe.
- I hear you, boss.
-
I'll put it on a kinescope,
push through the end.
-
Palmer, cut it at 2:30.
-
I prefer it one on each end,
let it run through.
-
It'd be more powerful.
Cut Kennedy?
-
Joe, file it for me.
I'll see the Mundt piece later.
-
Are we gonna make it, Fred?
-
We lost the telecine,
but we'll make it.
-
Did you finish your closing piece?
-
It's Shakespeare.
-
Write your closing.
-
My argument was if you just show
the images of McCarthy...
-
...it doesn't make any difference.
-
If you agree with him,
you're gonna hate the piece.
-
If you don't, you'll love it.
-
Maybe they should wait
till they get more footage.
-
I don't think
wec an take that chance.
-
We've got to hit McCarthy
before he comes after Ed.
-
The blue one. They haven't gone
after the AIsops or Herb Block.
-
Honey, the AIsops and Herb Block...
-
...didn't work for the Institute
of International Education in 1934.
-
Then I guess it's time.
-
You worried?
-
I didn't think I was.
-
I don't know why.
I was in the office on Friday.
-
And I answered the phone,
it was Howard calling from London.
-
And he asked what was going on
with McCarthy.
-
And before I answered him, I turned
and looked over my shoulder...
-
...tosee who was listening.
- And who was listening?
-
Chairman Mao...
-
I'll see you at the office.
-
- Hey, your ring!
- Uh!
-
Name me another wife...
-
...who reminds her husband
to take off his wedding ring...
-
...before he goes to the office.
- Ava Gardner.
-
Excuse me, Mr. Friendly. Mr. Murrow,
Mr. Paley's on the line for you.
-
- Maybe he wants to reimburse us
for those ads. - You'd like that!
-
- I would like that!
- This is Ed.
-
There's a Knickerbocker game tonight.
I've got front row seats.
-
Are you interested?
-
I'm busy bringing down
the network tonight, Bill.
-
Is that tonight?
-
We're covered, Bill.
-
All right.
-
- I'm with you today, Ed, and I'm
with you tomorrow. - Thanks, Bill.
-
Do you know the timing
on the first piece?
-
Can we hold all the calls, please?
-
Hold the calls till after the show.
Thank you.
-
- You fellas, awake down there?
- Okay.
-
- Just... what are we? 20?
- 30 seconds, Ed.
-
10 seconds.
-
5, 4,3, 2.
-
And pan, camera one.
-
Because a report on Senator McCarthy
is by definition controversial...
-
...we want to say exactly
what we mean to say...
-
...and request your permission
to read from a script...
-
...what ever remarks Murrow
and Friendly may make.
-
If the Senator feels that we have done
violence to his words or pictures...
-
...and desires to answer himself...
-
...an opportunity will be afforded him
on this program.
-
Our working thesis tonight
is this quotation:
-
..."If this fight
against Communism..."
-
"...has made a fight between
America's two great political parties..."
-
"...the American people know that one
of these parties will be destroyed..."
-
"...and the Republic cannot endure
very long as a one-party system."
-
We applaud that statement...
-
...and we think
Senator McCarthy ought to.
-
He said it
17 months ago in Milwaukee.
-
The American people realize
that this cannot be made a fight...
-
...between America's
two great political parties.
-
If this fight against Communism...
-
...is made a fight against America's
two great political parties...
-
...the American people know that one
of those parties will be destroyed...
-
...and the Republic can't endure
very long as a one-party system.
-
On one thing the Senator
has been consistent.
-
Often operating as a one-man
committee, he has traveled far...
-
...interviewed many,
terrorized some...
-
...accused civilian
and military leaders...
-
...of the past administration
of a great conspiracy...
-
...to turn over the country
to Communism.
-
I was extremely shocked when I heard
that Secretary Stevens...
-
...told 2 Army officers that they had
to take part in the cover up...
-
...of those who promoted
and coddled Communists.
-
As I read his statement, I...
-
...thought of that quotation,
"On what meat..."
-
"...does this our Caesar feed?".
-
The questions is:
-
...did the Civil Liberties Union
supply you with an attorney?
-
- They did supply an attorney.
- The answer is yes?
-
The answer is yes.
-
Do you think this book
did considerable harm?
-
Its publication...
-
...by an expression of the views
contained in it?
-
The sale of that book
was so abysmally small...
-
...it was so unsuccessful,
that the question of its influence...
-
You can go back
to the publisher...
-
...you'll see it was one of the most
unsuccessful books he ever put out.
-
He's still sorry about it,
just as I am.
-
Well, I think that's a compliment
to American intelligence.
-
I'll say that.
-
The Reed Harris hearing demonstrates
one of the Senator's techniques.
-
Twice he said...
-
...'The American Civil Liberties Union
was listed as a subversive front."
-
The Attorney General's list does not
and never has listed...
-
...the ACLU as subversive,
nor does the FBI...
-
...or any other
federal government agency.
-
And the American Civil Liberties Union
holds in its files...
-
...letters of commendation
from President Truman...
-
...President Eisenhower,
and General MacArthur.
-
Earlier, the Senator asked, "Upon what
meat does this our Caesar feed?".
-
Had he looked three lines earlier
in Shakespeare's "Caesar"...
-
...he would have found this line,
which is not altogether inappropriate.
-
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not
in our stars, but in ourselves."
-
No one familiar with the history
of this country...
-
...can deny that Congressional
committees are useful.
-
It is necessary to investigate
before legislating...
-
...but the line between investigating
and persecuting is a very fine one...
-
...and the junior Senator from Wisconsin
has stepped over it repeatedly.
-
We must not confuse dissent
with disloyalty.
-
We must remember always
that accusation is not proof...
-
...and that conviction depends
upon evidence and due process of law.
-
We will not walk in fear,
one of another.
-
We will not be driven by fear
into an age of unreason...
-
...if we dig deep
in our history and doctrine...
-
...and remember that we are not
descended from fearful men...
-
...not from men who feared to write,
to associate, to speak...
-
...and to defend the causes
that were for the moment unpopular.
-
This is no time for men who oppose
Senator McCarthy's methods...
-
...to keep silent,
or for those who approve.
-
Wec an deny our heritage
and our history...
-
...but we cannot escape
responsibility for the results.
-
We proclaim ourselves,
indeed as we are...
-
...the defenders of freedom wherever
it continues to exist in the world...
-
...but we cannot defend freedom abroad
by deserting it at home.
-
The actions of the junior Senator
from Wisconsin...
-
...have caused alarm and dismay
amongst our allies abroad...
-
...and given considerable comfort
to our enemies.
-
And whose fault is that?
Not really his.
-
He didn't create
this situation of fear...
-
...he merely exploited it,
and rather successfully.
-
Cassius was right.
-
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not
in our stars, but in ourselves."
-
Good night, and good luck.
-
And we're out.
-
Nothing?
-
Maybe nobody watched.
-
- We got nothing.
- I don't know. - Nothing.
-
Should I turn the phones back on,
Mr. Williams?
-
Yes. Now would be
a good time for that.
-
Turn the phones on!
Turn the pho...
-
Mr. Friendly wants the phones on.
-
It's the Junior Senator
calling collect.
-
Don't kid yourself. It's Reed Harris
thanking us for mentioning him.
-
I don't know whether all of you
have seen what I just saw...
-
...but I want to associate myself
and this program...
-
...with what Ed Murrow
has just said...
-
...and say I have never been
prouder of CBS.
-
Senator McCarthy said today that he
would demand equal free television...
-
Stevenson had charged that the Senator
made demagoguery and deceit...
-
...the national policy...
-
- Is that Hollenbeck?
- Congratulations!
-
Great show!
-
Feel like a Scotch?
-
I think everybody
could use a Scotch.
-
- It's 3:30, early editions are out.
- I'm not worried about that.
-
Of course not.
Shirley, honey...
-
...would you go across the street
and get the early editions?
-
- All of them?
- Just get O'Brian!
-
- Hey, watch my drink!
- Yeah.
-
Okay. Here we go.
-
- At last!
- The Times. - The Times...
-
- First?
- Good.
-
- Who wrote it?
- Jack Gould.
-
Gould...
-
Edward R. Murrows television program
on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy...
-
...was an exciting and provocative
examination of the man and his methods.
-
It was crusading journalism
of high responsibility and courage.
-
For TV so often plagued
by timidity and hesitation...
-
...the program was a milestone
that reflected enlightened citizenship.
-
The program... Hold on!
-
The program was no less
an indictment of those who wish...
-
...the problems posed
by the Senator's tactics and theatrics...
-
...would just go away
and leave them alone.
-
That was Mr. Murrows
and television's triumph...
-
...and a very great one.
-
Here! Here!
-
- He hated it.
- Yeah. What's his beef?
-
Send the New YorkTimes
abottle of Scotch.
-
I already did. How do you think
we got that review?
-
- How's the Post?
- Pretty good!
-
- What about O'Brian?
- Uh, the same.
-
- Goon, read O'Brian!
- I don't have it.
-
- Got it.
- Oh. Here.
-
- There we go.
- Shirley, that...
-
We can't say we were surprised at
Murrows "Hate McCarthy" telecast...
-
...last evening, when his explosively
one-sided propaganda...
-
...edited with deviously clever
selectivity from McCarthy's march...
-
...against Communism,
was finished last evening...
-
...by equally Machiavellian coincidence
the following telecast...
-
...featured Murrow's PM protege,
Hollenbeck.
-
In an obviously gloating mood,
Hollenbeck...
-
...hoped viewers had witnessed
his patron's triumph...
-
...from and for the Left.
-
Soon. Soon...
-
Shirley, it's okay.
Go ahead, finish it.
-
- No, that's it. That's it.
- Shirley, please, finish it.
-
The CBS has been in a lengthy
"clean house of Lefties" mood.
-
The worst offenders
on lesser levels...
-
...have been quietly
pushed out of the company.
-
Don Hollenbeck, a graduate
of the demised pinko publication PM...
-
...attacked conservative papers
with sly and slanted propaganda.
-
He then proceeded
through an equally...
-
...tilted review of the day's events...
-
...with McCarthy dominating his words,
actions, attitudes.
-
Soon.
-
- It's O'Brian. - He didn't get
the Scotch, that's all.
-
- Is it grammatically correct?
- I'll have that cigarette, Ed.
-
- Thanks, Shirley.
- Oh. - Mmh. - Thank you.
-
Joe... Shirley...
-
It doesn't matter.
-
To Jack Gould!
-
- To Jack! To Jack! To Jack Gould!
- To Jack Gould!
-
I love Jack Gould!
-
May he rest in peace.
-
- Hello, Jimmy.
- Fred, congratulations! - Thank you.
-
I got such a hangover
to go along with the ulcer.
-
All the adguys on the 3rd floor
watched the show.
-
Got a good review
in the New York Times. Jack Gould.
-
We're putting out a press release...
-
...saying that calls came in
15 to 1 in favor of the show. - Really?
-
- Yeah. - 15 to 1?
- We got calls from everywhere.
-
- East Coast or West Coast?
- Yeah. Kansas City, Cincinnati...
-
Mr. Paley...
-
- Morning, Fred.
- Morning, Mr. Paley.
-
How's your wife?
-
She's fine.
We're getting ready to move.
-
- Really? Where to? - Riverdale.
We found a nice house there.
-
It's nice there.
-
Yes, sir.
-
Excuse me.
-
Fred! McCarthy wants William Buckey
to do his rebuttal.
-
I said no.
-
Yes, sir.
-
Hey, Johnny!
-
- Radulovich has been reinstated.
- What?!
-
Radulovich... Guys!
Radulovich has been reinstated.
-
- Jesse! Jesse!
- Where is Ed?
-
- He's in the bullpen. Why?
What's going on? - Jess!
-
Got some very good news.
-
Special announcement
from the Secretary of the Air Force!
-
Fellas! Listen up! Everyone!
-
I have decided
that it is consistent...
-
...with the interests
of the National Security to retain...
-
...Lieutenant Radulovich
in the United States Air Force. Stop.
-
He is not, in my opinion,
a security risk. Fullstop.
-
There you go. Harold E. Talbott,
Secretary from the Air Force.
-
Great job!
-
- Make a copy of that for me!
- I will do, Fred!
-
Back to work, guys!
We got a lot of work to do.
-
This means something.
-
- Good news, huh?
- Congratulations!
-
- This absolutely means something.
- Absolutely. This is the start of...
-
Palmer!
-
The CBS lawyers wanna talk to you.
-
When?
-
Tomorrow.
-
I don't want you to get paranoid,
they're talking to everybody.
-
Any ideas?
-
Just tell them what you know.
-
- Now is that testimony true?
- No, sir, it is not.
-
Not at any time have I been
a member of the Communist Party...
-
...and I have never seen
a Communist card.
-
- You've never seen a Communist card?
- That's right.
-
Have you ever attended
any Communist meetings?
-
No, sir, never.
-
Have you ever subscribed
to The Daily Worker?
-
No, sir. I didn't subscribe to it
and I wouldn't pay for it.
-
Uh... Now, Mrs. Markward,
who was working for the FBI...
-
...who joined the Communist Party
under orders from the FBI...
-
...has testified that while
she never met you personally...
-
...at a Communist meeting
that your name was on the list...
-
...of Communists
who were paying dues.
-
Uh... Can you shed
any light upon that?
-
No, sir. I don't even know
what the dues are...
-
...or where they were paid.
- So you have never paid any money...
-
...to the Communist Party.
-
- Is that correct?
- That's right.
-
You've never paid
any dues, payment...
-
Thank you very much, Leo!
-
Good work, Joe, Charlie.
-
Now what is the show?
-
Is it defending Annie Lee Moss
as not being a Communist?
-
- Or is ither Constitutional rights?
- Both. - The latter.
-
We're much better sticking out
the Constitutional issues.
-
- Agreed?
- The woman is not a Communist spy.
-
Joe McCarthy said that they have
a spy in the Pentagon...
-
...that spy has gotten
into the code room...
-
...and that that spy
is Annie Lee Moss.
-
I've got New York Times reports.
McCarthy asserts he has...
-
...a new red link to Army. Quote,
"Senator McCarthy charged today..."
-
"...that the Army now employs
a woman in its code room..."
-
"...who was, and still may be,
an active Communist."
-
It's the front page
of the New York Times.
-
No sooner is he done chastising the
other committee members for wanting...
-
...to push into the afternoon,
than what? Seven questions in...
-
...he ducks out, leaves...
- Right.
-
- Heleaves. - It's all over
the headlines, all over the country.
-
Get me copies from any newspaper...
-
...that printed anything
about that assertion.
-
That's a good idea. You should get
the Cincinnati Inquirer.
-
- Chicago. - Couple other pieces
I think we should include.
-
The fact that there's 3 Annie Lee Moss's
in the phone book.
-
There are 2 Robert Halls,
one's colored, one's white.
-
We have some footage
of the empty chair.
-
I think that says it all.
Just that picture of McCarthy not...
-
McCarthy leaving the hearing
after 7 questions...
-
...and then we'll cut
to the shot of thechair.
-
- We gotta do something about it.
- All right, so...
-
Excuse me. Mr. Murrow!
McCarthy wants April 6th.
-
Thank you, Natalie.
-
Fine. If Charlie shoots it, we get
to see it first. We should offer.
-
- It's a long shot.
- What the hell could McCarthy do?
-
Is he gonna debate himself?
We just used his words!
-
Johnny! Johnny! We know
what it's going to be.
-
He's going to come after me.
There's nothing more he can do.
-
He's gonna bet that
a Senator trumps a newsman.
-
He'll lose.
-
Not if we're playing bridge.
-
- I'm sorry, guys. I didn't mean
to interrupt. - Hey, Don.
-
- It's getting fun now!
- Ed, you have aminute?
-
- Yes, I'll be right there.
- All right, boys. Playtime's over.
-
We have 4 days...
-
...to do a 29 minute show.
- Yeah. - All right.
-
All right, go ahead.
Hi, Mary.
-
Hello, Mr. Hollenbeck.
Mr. Murrow...
-
- Could you give us a moment?
- Sure.
-
Thank you, dear.
-
I have to ask you something, Ed.
It's about O'Brian.
-
- O'Brian doesn'tmatter.
- He's killing me, Ed.
-
He doesn't amount to that much
in the newsroom.
-
We've got to let that guy have it.
-
We're not going after O'Brian. I will
not take on McCarthy and Hearst.
-
I can't defeat them both.
-
Just don't read the papers.
Or don't read O'Brian, anyway.
-
Okay. I guess not.
-
Sorry, Don.
-
Although Mrs. Moss
offered to testify...
-
...Senator McCarthy suggested
that she was too sick.
-
- She agreed... - Mr. Cohn wanted
to know about Mrs. Moss's connection...
-
...to tell the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth...
-
...so help you God?
-
May we get your full name
for the record, please?
-
Annie Lee Moss.
-
- M-O-S-S?
- That's right.
-
Mrs. Moss, let me say for the record,
for your information...
-
...for the information
of your counsel...
-
...that you are not here because...
-
...you are considered important
in the Communist apparatus.
-
We have the testimony that you are,
and have been, a Communist.
-
We are rather curious, however,
to kno whow you suddenly...
-
...were shifted from...
-
...a worker in a cafeteria
to the code room.
-
I am today much more interested...
-
...in the handling of your case...
-
...by your superiors
than in your own personal activities.
-
However, counsel will question you
about your own activities also.
-
- Mr. Chairman!
- We will not hear from counsel.
-
You have been told what the rule is.
-
If you have anything to say,
say it through your client.
-
Chairman. Did you begin work
at the General Accounting Office in...
-
...1945?
- Yes, sir.
-
And, prior to that time,
had you been a cafeteria worker?
-
Yes, I had.
-
I see. While in the Pentagon,
since 1950...
-
...have you had any connections
with coded messages?
-
Have you ever handled
coded messages?
-
- No more than to transmit 'em.
- Pardon me?
-
No more than to transmit
the message.
-
Than to transmit them?
Did you transmit codes?
-
To receive or transmit messages
was all I had to do.
-
And I've never been
into a courtroom in my life.
-
Do you know the...
-
...type of classification...
-
- Do you know if they were secret,
top secret, confidential? - No, sir.
-
- You wouldn't know the degree
of classification? - No, sir.
-
I see.
-
I'm afraid I'm going
to have to excuse myself, I've got...
-
...a rather important appointment
to work on right now...
-
...and I wonder if, Senator Mundt,
you would takeover as Chairman?
-
- Chairman. Uh...
- Cohn.
-
I have no further questions
of this witness at this time.
-
We have the testimony of Mrs. Markward,
the undercover agent for the FBI...
-
...stating that Annie Lee Moss
was a member, a dues-paying member...
-
...of the Communist Party...
-
...the Northeast Club
of the Communist Party.
-
We have corroboration
of that testimony by another...
-
...witness who was called
before the Committee...
-
...and gave a sworn statement
to the effect...
-
...that she also knew Mrs. Moss
as a member...
-
...of the Northeast Club
of the Communist Party.
-
She's already lost her job. She's been
suspended because of this action.
-
I'm not defending her. If she's
a Communist, I want her exposed.
-
But to make these statements
as we've got corroborating evidence...
-
...that she is a Communist,
under these circumstances...
-
...I think she's entitled to have it
produced here in her presence...
-
...and let the public know about it
and let her know about it.
-
I don't like to try people
by hearsay evidence.
-
I'd like to get the witnesses here
and try them...
-
...by testimony, under oath.
-
The Chair will rule
that the comment of Mr. Cohn...
-
...be stricken from the record.
-
I didnt ask that, Mr. Chairman!
-
...whether we should try to produce
a witness in public...
-
...because the FBI may have
her undercover and we don't want to...
-
You can't strike these statements
made by counsel here as to evidence...
-
...that we're having and withholding.
You cannot strike that from the press...
-
...nor from the public mind
once it's planted there. That's the...
-
...evil of it!
-
- Well, I'd look at it...
- I don't think it's fair to a witness...
-
...to a citizen of this country...
-
...to bring them up here
and cross-examine them...
-
...then when they get through, say...
-
..."The FBI has got something on you
that condemns you."
-
- The Chair agrees...
- It is not sworn testimony...
-
...it's convicting people
by rumor and hearsay and innuendo.
-
You will notice that neither Senator
McClellan or Senator Symington...
-
...nor this reporter know or claim
that Mrs. Moss was or is a Communist.
-
They simply claimed that she had the
right to meet her accusers face to face.
-
One month ago tonight we presented
a report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
-
We labeled it as controversial.
-
Most of that report consisted
of words and pictures of the Senator.
-
At that time, we said...
-
..."If theSenator believes we havedone
violence to his words or pictures..."
-
"...if he desires to speak,
to answer himself..."
-
"...an opportunity would be
afforded him on this program."
-
The Senator sought the opportunity
after 3 weeks...
-
...because he was very busy and wished
adequate time to prepare his reply.
-
We agreed.
-
We placed no restrictions on the manner
of the presentation of his reply...
-
...and we suggested that we would not
take time to comment...
-
...on this particular program.
-
Here now is Senator Joseph R. McCarthy,
junior Senator from Wisconsin.
-
Good evening. Mr. Edward R. Murrow,
Educational Director of the CBS...
-
...devoted his program
to an attack...
-
...on the work ofthe US Senate
Investigating Committee...
-
...and on me personally
as its Chairman.
-
Now, over the past 4 years,
he has made repeated attacks upon me...
-
...and those fighting Communists.
-
Of course, neither Joe McCarthy
nor Edward R. Murrow...
-
...is of any great importance
as individuals.
-
We are only important...
-
...in our relation to the great struggle
to preserve our American liberties.
-
Now ordinarily, I wouldnt take time
out from the important work at hand...
-
...to answer Murrow.
-
However, in this case...
-
...I feel justified in doing so
because Murrow is the symbol...
-
...the leader...
-
...and the cleverest of the jackal pack
which is always found at the throat...
-
...of anyone who dares to expose
individual Communists and traitors.
-
And I am compelled by the fact...
-
...to say to you
that Mr. Edward R. Murrow...
-
...as far back as 20 years ago...
-
...was engaged in propaganda
for Communist causes.
-
For example, the Institute
of International Education...
-
...of which he was
the Acting Director...
-
...was chosen to act
as a representative...
-
...by a Soviet agency...
-
...to do a job which would normally
be done by the Russian secret police.
-
Mr. Murrow, by his own admission,
was a member of the IWW...
-
...that's the Industrial Workers
of the World...
-
...a terrorist organization
cited as subversive...
-
...by an Attorney General
of the United States.
-
Mr. Murrow said on this program
and I quote...
-
..."The actions of the junior
Senator from Wisconsin..."
-
"...have given considerable comfort
to the enemy."
-
That is the language of our statute
of treason, rather strong language.
-
If I am giving comfort to our enemies,
I ought not to be in the Senate.
-
If, on the other hand,
Mr. Murrow...
-
...is giving comfort to our enemies...
-
...he ought not to be brought
into the homes...
-
...of millions of Americans
by the CBS.
-
And I want to assure you...
-
...that I will not be deterred...
-
...by the attacks of the Murrows,
the Lattimores, the Fosters...
-
...The Daily Worker
or the Communist Party itself.
-
And I make no claim to leadership.
-
Incomplete humility...
-
...I do ask you and every American
who loves this country...
-
...to join with me.
-
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Last week, Senator McCarthy
appeared on this program...
-
...to correct any errors
he might have thought we made...
-
...in our report of March 9th.
-
Since he made no reference to any
statements of fact that we made...
-
...we must conclude
that he found no errors of fact.
-
He proved again
that anyone who exposes him...
-
...anyone who doesn't share his disregard
for decency and human dignity...
-
...and the rights
guaranteed by the Constitution...
-
...must be either a Communist
or a fellow traveler.
-
I fully expected this treatment.
-
The Senator added this reporter's name
to a long list of individuals...
-
...and institutions he has accused
of serving the Communist cause.
-
His proposition is very simple:
-
...anyone who criticizes or opposes
Senator McCarthy's methods...
-
...must be a Communist.
-
And if that be true, there are
an awful lot of Communists in the USA.
-
For the record, let's consider briefly
some of the Senator's charges.
-
He claimed, but offered no proof...
-
...that I had been a member of the
Industrial Workers of the World.
-
That is false.
-
I was never a member ofthe IWW,
never applied for membership.
-
The Senator charged
that Professor Harold Laski...
-
...a British scholar and politician,
dedicated a book to me.
-
That's true.
-
He is dead.
He was a socialist, I am not.
-
He was a civilized individual...
-
...who did not insist upon agreement
with his political principles...
-
...as a pre-condition
for conversation or friendship.
-
I do not agree
with his political ideas.
-
I ask, as he makes clear
in the introduction...
-
...dedicated the book to me,
not because of political agreement...
-
...but because he held my wartime
broadcast from London in high regard.
-
And the dedication so reads.
-
I believed 20 years ago
and I believe today...
-
...that mature Americans can engage
in conversation and controversy...
-
...the clash of ideas, with Communists
anywhere in the world...
-
...without becoming
contaminated or converted.
-
I believe that our faith,
our conviction...
-
...our determination
are stronger than theirs...
-
...and that we can successfully compete,
not only in the area of bombs...
-
...but in the area of ideas.
-
I have worked with CBS
for more than 19 years.
-
The company has subscribed fully
to my integrity and responsibility...
-
...as a broadcaster
and as a loyal American.
-
I require no lectures from the junior
Senator from Wisconsin...
-
...as to the dangers
or terrors of Communism.
-
Having searched my conscience
and my files...
-
...I cannot contend that
I have always been right or wise...
-
...but I have attempted to pursue
thet ruth with diligence...
-
...and to report it...
-
...even though, as in this case,
I had been warned in advance...
-
...that I would be subjected
to the attentions of Senator McCarthy.
-
We shall hope to deal with matters
of more vital interest next week.
-
Good night, and good luck.
-
In the last analysis, the Senator was
perched on the television high dive...
-
...and all prepared
to make a resounding splash.
-
He jumped beautifully,
but he neglected to check first...
-
...where he was going to land.
It must have been a shock...
-
...to discover that Mr. Murrow
had drained the water out of the pool.
-
- Is that the Times? Gould?
- Yeah, it's Jack Gould.
-
- He's a hell of a writer.
- Yes, he is.
-
- If we can afford him!
- Stanton's got a public opinion...
-
Senate's investigating McCarthy.
-
What?
-
The Army's charging that McCarthy
and Cohn exercised undue pressure...
-
...to get preferential treatment
for Schine. - Who's the source?
-
- Got a second source? - There isn't,
but this is coming out in 2 hours.
-
- Who's heading up the investigation?
- It's not gonna be McCarthy!
-
- Really?
- What happened?
-
- Also get me the Washington Post!
- What's going on?
-
It's Williams
for Jack Thompson.
-
The Senate's investigating McCarthy.
-
There is an added bit of comedy
to this whole story.
-
The Committee cannot convene
for several days...
-
...because Senator McCarthy
has a slight case of laryngitis.
-
And he must recover
over the desert air of Arizona.
-
- But Stevens is going after him
and it looks like Joe Welch. - Yeah.
-
They're gonna allow each side
to call witnesses...
-
...and be privy to other testimony.
-
- Fred, we still have a meeting!
- We're gonna go to talk toThompson.
-
No, thanks, Jack. Bye.
-
Freddy, we're a hit.
Right up there with "Howdy Dowdy"!
-
Can I have
an outlet satellite, please?
-
- 74, 76,47. Thank you.
- Murrayville3, 1-2-7-6.
-
The fact of newscaster
Don Hollenbeck's suicide yesterday...
-
...does not remove from the record
that peculiar history...
-
...of the leftist slanting of news
indulged consistently by the CBS.
-
Hollenbeck was what most astute
students of CBS's strange...
-
...and questionable new methods
considered...
-
..."typical of its newscasters".
By Jack O'Brian.
-
Oh, yeah. I like it like that.
-
One of the best programs I ever heard
was called "CBS Views The Press".
-
A great many people liked it,
some didn't...
-
...but noone ever called it
anything but honest.
-
It was the work of an honest reporter.
Don Hollenbeck.
-
He also worked occasionally
on "See It Now'.
-
He did the 11 p.m. News
over some of these stations.
-
He had been sick lately
and he died this morning.
-
The police said
it was suicide... gas.
-
Not much of an obit.
-
But, at least we got our facts
straight, and it was brief.
-
And that's all Don Hollenbeck
would have asked.
-
Good night, and good luck.
-
Got to be in Philadelphia
this morning.
-
What time is your train?
-
9:00.
-
- Charlie going with you?
- Uh-huh.
-
Here's a thought.
-
What if we're wrong?
-
We're not wrong.
-
We're not going to look back...
-
...and say we protected
the wrong side?
-
Protected them from what? In the name
of what? What would we be preserving?
-
Argument could bemade,
'for the greater good".
-
Not once you give it all away.
It's no good then.
-
It's just a thought.
-
Senator, may we not drop this? We know
he belonged to the Lawyer's Guild.
-
And Mr. Cohn nods his head at me.
-
- I did you, I think, no personal
injury, Mr. Cohn. - No, sir.
-
- I meant to do you
no personal injury. - No.
-
And if I did, I beg your pardon.
-
Let us not assassinate this lad
further, Senator. You've done enough.
-
- Let's... let's...
- Have you no sense of decency, sir?
-
At long last, have you left
no sense of decency?
-
- I know this hurts you, Mr. Welch.
- Senator, I think it hurts you, too.
-
- I'd like to finish this.
- Have you some private reservation...
-
...when you take the oath
that you will tell the whole truth...
-
...that lets you be the judge
of what you will testify to?
-
The answer is there's no reservation
about telling the whole truth.
-
Thank you, sir. Then tell us
who delivered the documents to you!
-
I don't want to mean that
this new fashion is not chic.
-
- I think it's just no good for me.
- Uh, not for you.
-
Milko, anything you care to say
on that subject?
-
I think no comment.
-
It's got to be there. If you can't
find it, I cant write about it.
-
- Check again.
- Charlie said he dropped it off.
-
- Charlie said he dropped...
- Shirley, can I see you a minute?
-
- I got to call you back.
- Joe!
-
You, too.
-
Close the door.
-
Have a seat.
-
- How are you?
- Fine, thank you. - Swell. Yeah.
-
Uh, you both are aware
that there's a policy at CBS...
-
...that no two employees
can be married.
-
I want to ask you a question,
but I don't want you to answer it.
-
I want you to consider it.
-
I know you two are married.
-
Everyone knows.
-
That's not my question.
-
In the next few weeks
I have to lay off a couple of people.
-
We're making some significant cuts
across the board.
-
I wanted you to know that...
-
...because you could save
someone else being fired.
-
I'm asking you to consider
makng this decision a little easier.
-
I don't need an answer now.
-
Just think about it.
-
Good.
-
- Well, Joe...
- Well?
-
- Sure we'regonna miss you
around here. - I'll pack my things.
-
- I think it's for the best.
- We'll find out!
-
Mrs. Wershba...
-
Everybody knew.
-
Natalie, did he say
what it was about?
-
No. Just that he wanted to talk
to you in his office.
-
Uh-oh!
-
The problem isn't simply
that you've lost your sponsor.
-
With Alcoa, "See It Now"
still loses money.
-
The fee is 50,000 dollars.
-
Last week's episode we did
for less than 50,000 dollars.
-
Fred, you're speakng
beyond your competence.
-
We'll certainly find another sponsor.
-
"64,000 Dollar Question" brings in
over 90,000 in sponsors...
-
...and it costs one-third
of what youdo.
-
Ed, I've got Tuesday night
programming that's number one.
-
People want to enjoy themselves.
They don't want a civics lesson.
-
- What do you want, Bill?
- I don't want to get a stomachache...
-
...every time you take on
a controversial subject.
-
I'm afraid that's the price
you have to be willing to pay.
-
Let's walk very carefully
through these next few moments.
-
The content of what we're doing
is more important...
-
...than what some guy in Cincinnati...
- It's what you'redoing, Ed. Not me.
-
Not Frank Stanton. You.
-
"CBS News", "See It Now"
all belong to you, Bill.
-
You wouldn't know it.
-
- What is it you want? Credit?
- I never censored a single program.
-
I hold on to affiliates
who wanted entertainment from us.
-
I fight to keep the license...
-
...with the very same politicians
that you are bringing down...
-
...and I never,
never said no to you. Never.
-
I would argue that we have done
very well by one another.
-
I would argue that this network...
-
...is defined by what the news
department has accomplished.
-
And I would also argue that never saying
no is not the same as not censoring.
-
Really? You should teach journalism.
You and Mr. Friendly.
-
Let me ask you this:
-
...why didn't you correct McCarthy...
-
...when he said that Alger Hiss
was convicted of treason?
-
He was only convicted of perjury.
You corrected everything else.
-
Did you not want the appearance
of defending a known Communist?
-
I would argue that everyone censors,
including you.
-
What do you want to do, Bill?
-
I'm takng your program
from a half an hour to an hour.
-
And it wont be a weekly program
and it won't be Tuesday nights.
-
- When would it be?
- Sunday afternoons.
-
- How many episodes?
- 5.
-
Why don't you just fire me, Bill?
-
I don't think
it's what either of us wants.
-
You owe me 5 shows.
-
- You won't like the subject matter.
- Probably not.
-
Fred, I'll need you for a moment.
-
- Thank you, Mary.
- Goodbye, Mr. Friendly.
-
- He wants me to lay a few people off.
- I'm sure he does.
-
Let's do our first show
about the downfall of television.
-
- Senate's gonna vote to censure
McCarthy tomorrow. - Probably.
-
- And then what happens?
- He sits in the back row. - Right.
-
- They keep him in the Senate.
They don't kick him out. - No, he stays.
-
Well, we might as well
go down swinging.
-
Did you know the most trusted man
in America is Milton Berle?
-
See, you should have worn a dress!
-
- Howd does a Scotch sound?
- Scotch sounds good.
-
- Did you know Joe and Shirley
were married? - Sure.
-
- Did everyone know?
- Pretty much.
-
We are proud because
from the beginning of this nation...
-
...man can walk upright.
-
No matter who he is
or who she is.
-
He can walk upright
and meet his friend or his enemy.
-
And he does not fear
that because that enemy...
-
...may be in a position
of great power...
-
...that he can be suddenly
thrown in jail...
-
...to rott here without charges
and with no recourse to justice.
-
We have the Habeas Corpus Act
and we respect it.
-
I began by saying that our history
will be what we makeit.
-
If we go on as we are...
-
...then history will take its revenge,
and retribution will not limp...
-
...in catching up with us.
-
Just once in a while, let us exalt the
importance of ideas and information.
-
Let us dream to the extent of saying
that on a given Sunday night...
-
...the time normally
occupied by Ed Sullivan...
-
...is given over to a clinical survey
on the state of American education.
-
And a week or two later, the time
normally used by Steve Allen...
-
...is devoted to a thorough-going study
of American policy in the Middle East.
-
Would the corporate image of their
respective sponsors be damaged?
-
Would the shareholders rise up
in their wrath and complain?
-
Would anything happen...
-
...other than a few million people would
have received a little illumination...
-
...on subjects that may well determine
the future of this country...
-
...and therefore the future
of the corporations?
-
To those who say, "People wouldn't
look, they wouldn't be interested..."
-
"...they're tooc omplacent,
indifferent and insulated"...
-
...I can only reply: There is,
in one reporter's opinion...
-
...considerable evidence
against that contention.
-
But even if they are right,
what have they got to lose?
-
Because if they are right...
-
...and this instrument
is good for nothing...
-
...but to entertain,
amuse and insulate...
-
...then the tube is flickering now...
-
...and we will soon see
that the whole struggle is lost.
-
This instrument can teach.
-
It can illuminate
and it can even inspire.
-
But it can do so only to the extent
that humans are determined to use it...
-
...towards those ends.
-
Otherwise,
it is merely wiresand lights...
-
...in a box.
-
Good night, and good luck.
