Episode 19 (Aired April 20, 1951)
Hear It Now, an American radio program on CBS, began in 1950 and was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Fred Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 p.m. One of the most popular and best selling records of 1948 was I Can Hear It Now 1933-1945. The record was a collaboration between Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. The record interwove historical events with speeches and Murrow's narration and marked the beginning of one of the most famous pairings in journalism history. The huge success of the record prompted the pair to parlay it into a weekly radio show for CBS. That show was Hear It Now. The show had a "magazine format." It drove to include a variety of sounds from current events such as an atom smasher at work or artillery fire from Korea. It was the artillery fire that produced one of the show's more poignant moments as it backdropped the words of American soldiers fighting the Korean War. The entire premise of the show was to include the "actual sound of history in the making," according to Murrow. Some of the show's audio was what Time Magazine called "fairly routine" in 1950. Such audio soundbites as Communist China's General Wu and Russia's Vishinsky along with the U.S. Delegate Warren Austin were included among the routine group of audio use. Television, by 1955, usurped radio in terms of audience share and a reluctant Murrow, in 1951, set about doing a TV version of the radio show called See It Now. With the inception of the television version of the show in 1951 Hear It Now ended its on air run.
THIS EPISODE:
April 20, 1951. Program #19. CBS network. Sustaining. MacArthur returns home in triumph and speaks before Congress...covered in detail. The opening of the Baseball season (Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle are heard)...a sound portrait. A tribute to the recently deceased Michigan Congressman Arthur Vandenberg. Very well-done. Arthur Vandenberg, Douglas MacArthur, Edward R. Murrow (narratoreditor, producer), Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Harry Truman, Alben Barkley, Winston Churchill, Sam Rayburn, Honus Wagner, Connie Mack, Fred Friendly (editor, producer), John Aaron, Jesse Zousmer, Irving Gitlin, Joseph Wershba, Edmund Scott, John Jefferson (Korean recordings), George Herman (Korean recordings), Olen Tice. 58:55.
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