‘Orchestrated Hell’: Edward R. Murrow over Berlin

Last night, some of the young gentlemen of the RAF took me to Berlin. Edward R. Murrow was nothing if not cool, as the opening sentence of perhaps his most famous wartime report makes clear. Seated before a microphone at the BBC’s London studios on December 3, 1943, Murrow spent 18 minutes walking CBS listeners through his experience accompanying a
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