Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: Public reaction to the Crime hearings, from New York and St. Louis. UnAmerican Activities Committee questions Larry Parks on Communism in Hollywood. Winston Churchill comments on the goals of England and the free world. Seoul recaptured.
Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard comment on South American report that the A-bomb can be made without uranium. Controversy over war mobilization continues. Developments in Korea. 23rd Oscar award presentations: Judy Holiday, Gloria Swanson, and Jose Ferrer. Close-up: Hollywood, 1950. A close-up which includes Hedda Hopper, Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, John Wayne.
Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: Developments in Korea. The debate on sending troops to Europe continues. College youth and faculty of University of North Carolina react to the new Selective Service deferment program. Governor James Byrnes of South Carolina comments on separate education for whites and blacks. Dr. Ralph Bunche comments on Byrnes' remarks. Ringling Brothers Circus Opening Night at Madison Square Garden, New York.
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.
NBC Red Network. Kaltenborn offers first reports on attack, recounts what has happened during the past 50 minutes, attack on Peak Harbor, Manila, first eyewitness accounts come across the wires, services called upon to protect the United States, various targets of Japanese, first Honolulu report on wires, torpedoing of U.S. ships, Japanese preparation for attacks, foreign warship appears off Pearl Harbor.
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.
NBC. Martha Roundtree, host with Burt Andrews of the New York Herald Tribune, May Craig of the Portland Press, Jack Bell of AP and permanent member Lawrence Spivak. Guest is Senator Joseph McCarthy. Program examines McCarthy and his anti-communist activities and his investigations into stockpiling, etc.
Helen, thinking of Cynthia, remarks what a strong woman she is. Meanwhile Cynthia speaks to Gil Whitney for the first time, crying about the anniversary of the death of her husband.