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Abstract:
North Carolina native Edward R. Murrow garnered worldwide fame for his reports from London during WWII entitled \"This - is London.\" Years afterwards Murrow worked as Vice President and Director of Public affairs for CBS. President John F. Kennedy made him head of the United States Information Agency where his famous broadcast with Senator Joseph McCarthy proved to be the senator's undoing.
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Edward R. Murrow, chief of the European news staff of Columbia Broadcasting system was born in Sumner Township in Guildford County. Each morning and evening, many thousands of radio listeners in the United States tune into to Columbia's European war news program from the capitals of the strife-torn continent to listen to Murrow.