Edward [Egbert] Roscoe Murrow was born on April 25, 1908, near Greensboro, North Carolina. He was the youngest of three boys born to Roscoe and Ethel Murrow. The family moved to Blanchard, Washington when Murrow was five. Subsequently, Murrow attended Washington State College in Pullman, Washington, graduating in 1930. He was president of the National Student Federation from 1929 to 1932 and assistant director of the Institute of International Education from 1932 to 1935. In 1934 he married Janet Brewster. Their son, Charles Casey, was born November 6, 1945, in West London. Murrow was hired by CBS in 1935 and worked for them until 1961. During those years he worked as war correspondent in London, 1939 to 1945, vice president, director of public affairs, 1945 to 1947, and news analyst and host for the television programs Person to Person, See It Now, and Small World during the 1950s. He was on the CBS board of directors from 1949 to 1955. In 1961, Edward R. Murrow was appointed director of the United States Information Agency (USIA), serving until 1964. He died on April 27, 1965.
Two small black and white photographs of Edward R. Murrow and his college girlfriend Hermine (Duthie) Decker at the marriage of Murrow's brother Dewey. Also in one of the two photographs is Bess Trumbull, the new mother-in-law. Some additional explanatory documentation is included.
This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
The two photos are not in any order.
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Preliminary Guide to the Edward R. Murrow Photographs, 1929 February 23 (UPC0010)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Donated by Tony Bamonte of Spokane on Oct. 4, 1999.
A collection of Edward R. Murrow photographs is held at MASC as PC 30. Cage 673 consists chiefly of letters and envelopes addressed to Hermine Duthie from Edward R. Murrow. Cage 124 is a collection of 22 typescripts of plays, one with original and revised editions, written by Hermine Duthie Decker. The majority of Edward R. Murrow's papers are held by the Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy at Tufts University.
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