Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Music composed by Dave Diamond and conducted by Alfredo Antonini. Warren Sweeney, announcer. Content includes: Developments in Korea. The letters of President Harry Truman. News in Washington. Poet Carl Sandburg speaks on freedom. Audio portrait of General Douglas MacArthur.
Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: In Korea, General MacArthur predicts stalemate. Senator Margaret Chase Smith on those who oppose Dwight Eisenhower as possible GOP candidate in 1952. Dr. Vanaver Bush speaks of the A-bomb. Close-up: The American Working Man, Model 1951.
Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: President Harry Truman removes General Douglas MacArthur from command in Korea on April 11. Ed Murrow reads Truman's telegram to MacArthur relieving him of command. Major General Courtney Whitney, MacArthur's aide, describes how the general received the news. Background of Truman-MacArthur relationship. British Minister of State Kenneth Younger comments on general. Congressman Joe Martin reads secret letter from MacArthur on winning the war in Korea. Joe Martin comments on special Republican meeting about firing. Various Senators comment on the firing. President Truman addresses the nation on situation in Korea and firing. Newspaper editors comment. Close-up: the Korean casualty at Walter Reed. Close-up of the Korean veteran receiving specialized treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: General Douglas MacArthur returns and addresses Congress. Congressional reactions. Winston Churchill on possible peace in Korea. Baseball season begins. Sounds at the stadiums around the country. Voices of Honus Wagner, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Charlie Dressen, Connie Mack, Roy Campanella, Mel Allen, Branch Rickey.
Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: In Korea, General Ridgeway briefs newsmen on Communist activity in North. Radio Free Europe begins broadcasting, sample of Hungarian broadcast on how to sneak across the Iron Curtain. Winston Churchill comments on the beef shortage in Britain. MacArthur furor continues. New York Times reporter on secret Pentagon files. Senator Richard Nixon on White House attempt to smear MacArthur.
Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: MacArthur-Marshall Congressional testimony. General MacArthur speaks of his troops, on bombing of Yalu, Chinese Nationalist reinforcements, global consequences, defeatism, on going it alone, new power to launch attack, Truman Administration's Korean policy. Close-up: Moonshining U.S.A. Ed Murrow and his team go to the Blue Ridge Mountains for a look at moonshining. Includes voices of mountain men, Federal revenuers. Includes tapes of actual raid on a still.
Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: The General MacArthur furor continues. President Harry Truman on mail about MacArthur controversy. Various reporters and Congressmen comment. Actuality of shelling in North Korea. University of Chicago dedicates atomic research lab. 90th birthday of pretzel. Close-Up: The Homecoming of Frank Stilo. Captain Stilo, a Korean veteran, comes home.
Introduced and anchored by ABC Newsman Chet Huntley in San Francisco. Features PU's from Richard Rendell, Bill Herbert, Ray Falk, and Fred Sparks in Tokyo describing MacArthur's arrival and departure. Report from Hank Weaver in Honolulu about plans for MacArthur's arrival there, then Harry Harbor interviews the manager of the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco about plans for the visit. Bob Day speaks to several at the airport about security, etc. Program concludes with Huntley promoing ABC's coverage.