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Title: Hear It Now (Episode 12)
Date: 1951-03-02
Description: Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: Vice President Alben Barkley speaks in Topeka, Kansas about Republican unification. Congress holds hearings on sending troops to Europe. Voices of Governor Thomas Dewey, Senator Robert Taft, former President Herbert Hoover, and Governor Earl Warren. Developments in Korea. John Foster Dulles speaks about Communists and the Far East.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Cold War; Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956; Friendly, Fred W.; Murrow, Edward R.
Local Identifier: HearItNow-012
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50170
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Title: Hear It Now (Episode 10)
Date: 1951-02-16
Description: Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: Joseph Stalin's major pronouncement on Far East policy. Tributes to President Abraham Lincoln. Statement from Senator Joseph McCarthy who one year ago said the State Department is full of Communists. Debate on sending troops to Europe. Developments in Korea. Portrait of boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, before, during, and after his recent championship match.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Cold War; Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Friendly, Fred W.; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; Murrow, Edward R.; Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
Local Identifier: HearItNow-010
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50169
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Title: Mary Margaret McBride (September 1, 1948, Reel 2)
Date: 1948-09-01
Description: Conclusion. With Fannie Hurst and Vincent Connolly sitting in for Ms. McBride. Fannie and Vincent discuss New York City, summer vacations, a horrible boat trip, problems in New York, etc.
Series: Entertainment programs -- Mary Margaret McBride
Subject: Radio programs; Radio talk shows; Interviewing on radio
Subject -- Personal Name: McBride, Mary Margaret, 1899-; Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968
Local Identifier: mmcbride-003
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50203

Title: Mary Margaret McBride (September 1, 1948, Reel 1)
Date: 1948-09-01
Description: With Fannie Hurst and Vincent Connolly sitting in for Ms. McBride. Fannie and Vincent discuss New York City, summer vacations, a horrible boat trip, problems in New York, etc.
Series: Entertainment programs -- Mary Margaret McBride
Subject: Radio programs; Radio talk shows; Interviewing on radio
Subject -- Personal Name: McBride, Mary Margaret, 1899-; Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968
Local Identifier: mmcbride-002
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50202

Title: Mary Margaret McBride (June 19, 1945)
Date: 1945-06-19
Description: Broadcast from the Marquee of the Astor Hotel, Times Square, New York. Vincent Connolly, announcer. Special guest is movie star Peggy Ann Gardner. Special parade pickups by Ben Grauer in the NBC Mobile Unit as General Eisenhower is welcomed to New York.
Series: Entertainment programs -- Mary Margaret McBride
Subject: Radio programs; Radio talk shows; Interviewing on radio
Subject -- Personal Name: McBride, Mary Margaret, 1899-
Local Identifier: mmcbride-001
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50201

Title: Hear it Now (Episode 03)
Date: 1950-12-29
Description: Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Warren Sweeney, announcer. Content includes: Developments in Korea. Opening of the new United Nations Building in New York. Christmas night in Los Angeles, record for traffic accidents, death and drunk drivers. Pope Pius XII seals St. Peter's Door ending the Holy Year. Don Hollenbeck reports on The Press and the Enemy how Soviet Union interprets American newspapers. Rose Bowl preview, biggest sports event of 1950. Red Barber reports on golfer Ben Hogan's recovery. Close-Up: The American Fighting Man, Model 1950.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Radio programs; Radio talk shows; United Nations
Subject -- Personal Name: Friendly, Fred W.; Murrow, Edward R.; Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958
Local Identifier: HearItNow-003
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50163
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Title: Hear It Now (Episode 08)
Date: 1951-02-02
Description: Narrated by Charles Collingwood and Douglas Edwards (Edward Murrow ill). Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: Eric Sevareid comments on Dwight Eisenhower's address to Congress, then Congressional reactions. Senator Robert Taft speaks out against Truman Administration policies in Europe, Sam Rayburn doesn't share Taft's views. Vice President Alben Barkley talks about Rayburn's long tenure as Speaker of the House. British Prime Minister Atlee raises taxes and reaction from man on the street about meat rationing. Developments in Korea. Famine in India and Eleanor Roosevelt on why we should help out. The A-bomb in Nevada, reaction to a test by the public. National League's 75th anniversary.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Baseball; Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Nuclear weapons 1884-1962; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969; Friendly, Fred W.; Murrow, Edward R.
Local Identifier: HearItNow-008
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50168
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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
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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
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Title: Hear It Now (Episode 04)
Date: 1951-01-05
Description: Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: CBS announcer with the arrival of the New Year. Opening of 82nd Congress with roll call, Representative Joe Martin introduces Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. Developments in Korea including the fall of Seoul. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Deane comments on whether the Soviets have the bomb. Dwight Eisenhower comments on his future military role.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Radio programs; Radio talk shows; United States. Congress (82nd, 1st session : 1951)
Subject -- Personal Name: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969; Friendly, Fred W.; Murrow, Edward R.; Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
Local Identifier: HearItNow-004
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50164
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Title: Hear It Now (Episode 07)
Date: 1951-01-26
Description: Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: Congressional debate about sending troops to Europe. Eric Sevareid comments on Dwight Eisenhower's tour of Europe. Developments in Korea. David Lillienthal on the value of the A-bomb as a guarantee of victory. Leo Durocher sends greetings to an umpire. Advice to graduating New York police class. Close-Up: The biography of a pound of steak.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Cold War; Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Durocher, Leo, 1906-; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969; Friendly, Fred W.; Murrow, Edward R.
Local Identifier: HearItNow-007
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50166
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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
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Title: Hear It Now (Episode 24)
Date: 1951-05-25
Description: Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Interviewing on radio; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Friendly, Fred W.; Murrow, Edward R.
Local Identifier: HearItNow-024
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50181
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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
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Title: Hear It Now (Episode 22)
Date: 1951-05-11
Description: 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.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Blue Ridge Mountains; Distilling, Illicit; 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.
Local Identifier: HearItNow-022
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50179
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Title: Hear It Now (Episode 20)
Date: 1951-04-27
Description: 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.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965; Friendly, Fred W.; MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964; Murrow, Edward R.
Local Identifier: HearItNow-020
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50178
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Title: Hear It Now (Episode 19)
Date: 1951-04-20
Description: 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.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Baseball; Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965; Friendly, Fred W.; MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964; Murrow, Edward R.
Local Identifier: HearItNow-019
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50177
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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
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Title: Hear It Now (Episode 17)
Date: 1951-04-06
Description: 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.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Interviewing on radio; Radio programs; Radio talk shows; Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971; Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972; Friendly, Fred W.; Murrow, Edward R.
Local Identifier: HearItNow-017
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50175
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Title: Hear It Now (Episode 16)
Date: 1951-03-30
Description: 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.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Academy Awards (Motion pictures); Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Nuclear weapons; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954; Friendly, Fred W.; Murrow, Edward R.; Szilard, Leo
Local Identifier: HearItNow-016
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50174
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