"A.Pismo Clam" wrote in message ...
At last! Someone remembered Edward R. Murrow and the group [Shirer,
Trout, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, Larry LeSueur, Richard C.
Hottelet, Winston Burdett and Cecil Brown] known affectionately as "The
Murrow Boys"

P.B.S. did a 2 hour "American Master" documentary entitled: "Edward R.
Murrow: This Reporter [Part I]. May still be available at P.B.S.
Some shots of early transmitters and Philco receivers and shortwave
audio clips from London [during the "Blitz"] and Berlin and the great
journalistic reporting from the concentration camp, Buchenwald. You can
hear the QRM, QRN, and the RTTY from an adjoining frequency.

You can also search for a 33 RPM vinyl record entitled, "This Is Edward
R. Murrow". It was produced by CBS News for the CBS network. It was an
original broadcast, aired just a few days after Murrow died on April 27,
1965. Several s.w. broadcasts there also.


Unfortunately I missed that PBS showing, but thanks for the heads-up.
I had read numerous books on journalists of that era, especially if it
pertained to radio (and therefore shortwave) broadcasts. Two good
books come to mind: THE MURROW BOYS and BERLIN DIARY. THE MURROW BOYS
is a recent book (well, about 5 years old), and it gives a good bio on
each reporter that worked with Murrow; and of course, how they
broadcast their reports. And BERLIN DIARY is simply a good book
written by William Shirer describing his years reporting from Berlin,
which delves into his radio broadcasts some. He became famous because
of his Berlin shortwave broadcasts, but then he became a superstar (at
that time) due to this book he wrote when he departed Berlin. And
there is also a good (surprisingly,) made-for-TV movie called THE
NIGHTMARE YEARS based on Shirer's BERLIN DIARY, which is quite
informative too.