Reply #91: Edward R. Murrow [View All]

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Stratharin has done a great job with Murrow's voice, he sounds just like him, it's eerie. Joe McCarthy was a new Senator and was dying in the polls in WV when he and his handlers came up with the infamous list he held up at the beginning of these hearings and said he had a list of 205 Communists right here in America, during the time that the "Red Scare" was at it height. I was a kid and even I knew people were terrified. When they started televising the hearings and all those famous people were accused (thanks to Hollywood's B-grade actor at the time Ronald Reagan) lives were wantonly destroyed, with little or no evidence. People didn't miss the Murrow broadcasts, glued to their TV sets while Murrow fought the disgusting display of McCarthy. Even Eisenhower was afraid of him, it was a horrible time. I can hardly wait for the movie to see with the eyes of an adult what I watched as a child.