• D-Day Invasion “…about to embark up on a great crusade” – (June 6, 1944)

  • Jul 20 2021
  • Length: 33 mins
  • Podcast
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D-Day Invasion “…about to embark up on a great crusade” – (June 6, 1944)

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  • It was the biggest overseas military operation in the biggest war in world history - and its best kept secret as well. D Day demonstrated radio’s ability to carry news with clarity and immediacy. And while reporters like Robert Trout, Edward R. Murrow, and Richard C. Hottelet became household names, it was the ingenuity of an NBC stringer reporter named Wright Bryan, who finagled his way aboard a flight of paratroopers and became the first to report the landing. 

    Contributors:

    • Howard K. Smith, correspondent, anchor, and original member of “Murrow’s boys”
    • Daniel Schorr, three-time Emmy winning correspondent, Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio, and part of the later generation of “Murrow's Boys.”
    • Michael Freedman, Former General Manager of CBS Radio Network News. Professorial Lecturer, GWU School of Media and Public Affairs; Immediate Past President of The National Press Club
    • Dr. Michael Biel, Renowned broadcast historian.


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