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Title: Hear It Now (Episode 01)
Date: 1950-12-15
Description: 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.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Friendly, Fred W.; MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964; Murrow, Edward R.; Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967; Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Local Identifier: HearItNow-001
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50159
mods_typeOfResource_mt: sound recording

Title: Hear It Now (Episode 02)
Date: 1950-12-22
Description: 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. Bomb shelters in Washington. Dwight Eisenhower returns to the service. British Prime Minister Atlee comments on his recent meeting with President Harry Truman. Segment with Connie Mack, baseball old-timer.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969; Friendly, Fred W.; Murrow, Edward R.; Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Local Identifier: HearItNow-002
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50160
mods_typeOfResource_mt: sound recording

Title: Hear It Now (Episode 05)
Date: 1951-01-12
Description: Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: Developments in Korea including serious refugee problem. New 10 cent phone call. Dwight Eisenhower leaves Washington for European command. Highlights of President Harry Truman's State of the Union message. Senator Robert Taft's opposing views. Bing Crosby's 20th anniversary in radio.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969; Friendly, Fred W.; Murrow, Edward R.; Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Local Identifier: HearItNow-005
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50165
mods_typeOfResource_mt: sound recording

Title: Hear It Now (Episode 18)
Date: 1951-04-13
Description: 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.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Friendly, Fred W.; MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964; Murrow, Edward R.; Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Local Identifier: HearItNow-018
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50176
mods_typeOfResource_mt: sound recording

Title: Hear It Now (Episode 23)
Date: 1951-05-18
Description: 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.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Friendly, Fred W.; MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964; Murrow, Edward R.; Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Local Identifier: HearItNow-023
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50180
mods_typeOfResource_mt: sound recording

Title: V-E Day Broadcasts (Reel 1)
Date: 1945-05-08
Description: Mutual Broadcasting System. President Harry Truman announces the end of the war in Europe in a special nationwide address. Following this, switch to London for a recording of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's address to the British Empire on the end of the war in Europe. Then to Washington where Fulton Lewis, Jr. recaps the morning's events and adds some interesting highlights about Truman's remarks to the press, reel concludes with recorded martial music.
Series: News programs
Subject: World War II; V-E Day, 1945
Subject -- Personal Name: Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972; Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965; Lewis, Fulton, 1903-1966
Local Identifier: news-713
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17170

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