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‎Okay. You wanna just lay this down?

‎[Ella] Ready when you are.

‎I'm ready.

‎[Ella] Are you recording?

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‎I am now.

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‎[Ella] ‎♪ When I fall in love ♪

‎♪ It will be forever ♪

‎♪ Or I'll never ♪

‎♪ Fall in love ♪

‎♪ In a restless world ♪

‎♪ Like this is ♪

‎♪ Love is ended before it's begun ♪

‎♪ And too many ♪

‎♪ Moonlight kisses ♪

‎♪ Seem to cool ♪

‎♪ In the warmth of the sun ♪

‎♪ When I give my heart ♪

‎♪ It will be completely ♪

‎♪ Or I'll never give ♪

‎♪ My heart ♪

‎♪ And the moment ♪

‎♪ I can feel ♪

‎♪ That you feel ♪

‎♪ That way too ♪

‎♪ Is when I fall in love ♪

‎♪ With you ♪

‎♪ Or I'll never fall ♪

‎♪ In love ♪

‎♪ And the moment ♪

‎♪ I can feel that ♪

‎♪ You feel ♪

‎♪ That way too ♪

‎♪ Is when I fall in love ♪

‎♪ With you ♪

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‎This just might do nobody any good.

‎At the end of this discourse, ‎a few people may accuse

‎this reporter of fouling ‎his own comfortable nest.

‎And you all may be accused ‎of giving hospitality

‎to heretical and even dangerous thoughts.

‎It is my desire, if not my duty,

‎to try to speak to you with some candor

‎about what is happening in our mass media.

‎You should know at the outset

‎that I appear here voluntarily, ‎by invitation,

‎and that these remarks are strictly ‎of a do-it-yourself nature.

‎If what I have to say is responsible,

‎I alone am responsible ‎for the saying of it.

‎I've decided to express my concern

‎on the manner ‎in which we inform ourselves.

‎I am seized by an abiding fear ‎of what these instruments

‎are doing to our society, ‎our culture, our heritage.

‎Our history will be what we make of it.

‎And if any historians, ‎50 to 100 years from now were to look,

‎they would in there ‎find evidence of decadence,

‎escapism, and insulation

‎from the realities ‎of the world in which we live.

‎And surely we will pay a price.

‎We are currently fat, ‎comfortable, and complacent.

‎We have a built-in allergy to unpleasant ‎or disturbing information,

‎but unless we get off of our fat assets ‎and recognize that media in the main

‎is being used to distract, delude, amuse,

‎and insulate us,

‎then those who finance it, ‎those who profit from it,

‎those who work at it, ‎and those who consume it

‎may see a totally ‎different picture too late.

‎Good evening. Earlier tonight, ‎Adlai E. Stevenson

‎urged the United States ‎to take the initiative

‎-in peace talks with the Soviet Union. ‎-

‎The talks are aimed ‎toward worldwide disarmament

‎and assurances of non-aggression ‎for the Russians,

‎-as well as for the free world. ‎-

‎In a broadcast ‎from his globe-circling tour,

‎Stevenson warned ‎the Eisenhower administration

‎against shutting the door on conferences

‎with the Soviet leaders ‎and putting too much pressure...

‎I'll be right down.

‎...on the uncommitted bloc of nations ‎not linked with either...

‎Millie, this is the Annie Lee Moss ‎footage from yesterday.

‎Okay, I'll give it to Leo. ‎Wait, it's only two cans?

‎What? Oh, yeah, that's all it is,

‎but there's some notes with it ‎to go for Fred.

‎Oh, Fred's in with the guys.

‎[chuckles] Okay, ‎I'll give the film to Leo.

‎You can go ahead ‎and give the notes to Fred.

‎[both] He's in the writer's room.

‎-Yeah. Thank you, Palmer. ‎-Thank you, Millie.

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‎Hi, Joe. Shirley, what's going on in here?

‎-[Joe] Hey, Palmer. ‎-[Shirley] Hello, Palmer.

‎-Just making some copies for the... ‎-[Shirley] Nothing.

‎Just making sure. Two attractive ‎people alone in a copy room.

‎-[chuckles] Okay, Palmer. ‎-I mean...

‎-Don't tell anyone. ‎-I, uh, certainly won't say anything.

‎Well, don't tell Fred. He'll fire me.

‎Well, I mean, both of us. ‎Shirley, it's the nepotism rule.

‎The nepotism rule.

‎You know, I think Joe would get the axe.

‎[chuckles] Well, uh, ‎rules are made to be broken.

‎You can afford to say that.

‎Oh, actually, Shirley, I think he's right.

‎What do you say? ‎You want to get a drink tonight?

‎Yeah, you know, ‎just a couple of guys trying to help.

‎The day I need dating advice ‎from you two knuckleheads is...

‎Ouch. All right.

‎- ‎-

‎Let me see this.

‎I don't know.

‎It's simply a loyalty oath. ‎I mean, there's nothing in there about...

‎-To CBS? ‎-To America.

‎-You promise to be a loyal American? ‎-All the reporters have it.

‎Who were you promising this to?

‎-Fred signed it. ‎-CBS, Paley--

‎And Murrow.

‎-Murrow signed it? ‎-Murrow signed it.

‎"Are you now, or have you ever been,

‎a member of these organizations..."

‎[Joe] I've had it for a while now. ‎I thought this was a joke.

‎...that appeared on the Attorney General's ‎list of subversive groups?

‎It's a lot of pressure.

‎I don't know.

‎All right, let's think about this.

‎What is it really saying?

‎Is it a civil liberties issue? ‎Is it censorship?

‎I don't know.

‎I mean, is it simply stating ‎to CBS that I'm not a Communist?

‎-Murrow signed it. ‎-And Fred.

‎-Maybe you should talk to Fred. ‎-Well, I talked to Fred.

‎He told me to sign it.

‎If you don't sign it, ‎are you and I a target?

‎If I don't sign it, they will fire me.

‎Well...

‎at least then ‎we can tell everyone the truth.

‎[chuckles] Okay, all right.

‎[Joe] Hey, they got the film?

‎Uh, yeah, it's all queued up ‎and ready to go.

‎Oh, Eddie, you're right.

‎I went through the D.C. phone book.

‎More than one ‎Annie Lee Moss in there, right?

‎-Oh, yeah, a lot more. ‎-See? I told you.

‎All right, here they are. ‎Hey, Joe, we got it queued up.

‎Hey, Fred, do you want a cigarette?

‎No, I'll just breathe the air.

‎

‎[Palmer] Okay, thank you. All right.

‎-Ready? All right. ‎-Yeah.

‎On this reel, this woman, Annie Lee Moss.

‎This is the person McCarthy ‎has spent two weeks

‎claiming was a spy in the Pentagon.

‎Yeah, well, she was a clerk ‎in the communications office.

‎Right.

‎So, after all this buildup, ‎she finally comes in.

‎McCarthy only asks her four questions, ‎and he gets up and he leaves.

‎-Wait, wait, wait. He just left? ‎-

‎Well, he realized ‎he had nothing, so...

‎Uh, Leo, hit it.

‎[Palmer] Yeah, yeah, yeah...

‎[McCarthy] ‎And, uh...‎

‎...you say you personally ‎did not know Robert Hall.

‎-‎No, sir. ‎-‎That you were

‎not there when he came to the house.

‎-‎That's right. ‎-Uh...

‎Do you know what business ‎Robert Hall had with your husband,

‎besides merely delivering ‎the copy of the daily work?

‎-No, sir. I do not. ‎-Uh...

‎I'm afraid I'm going ‎to have to excuse myself.

‎I've got a... uh, a rather important ‎appointment tonight,

‎which I've got to work on right now. ‎And I wonder if none of them are...

‎- ‎-[Charlie] Wait, wait, wait.

‎All right, look, and Charlie ‎gets a shot at the empty chair.

‎-[Cohn] ‎Chairman... ‎-[Palmer] Right there!

‎...I have no further questions ‎of this witness at this time.

‎We have the testimony of Mrs. Markward,

‎the undercover agent for the FBI,

‎stating that Annie Lee Moss was a member,

‎a dues-paying member ‎of the Communist Party...

‎The Northeast Club of the Communist Party.

‎[Fred] Leo, that's enough. Turn it off.

‎[Eddie] Oh, that Roy Cohn's ‎a real charmer.

‎Ed, did you see that he just walked out?

‎She is not a spy.

‎You don't know that.

‎Boy, I'll take the odds on it, Fred.

‎- ‎-What do you think, Ed?

‎You haven't made your case.

‎He's lying.

‎What's your proof?

‎I... I think it's pretty obvious.

‎Is that our standard now, what you think?

‎McCarthy told the whole country ‎he found the spy

‎in the Pentagon, and it was her?

‎Meaning what?

‎[chuckles] I mean, Ed, ‎does she look like a spy to you?

‎What does a spy look like, Palmer?

‎He got up and left his own hearing.

‎Prove she's not a spy ‎and you have a story.

‎Until then, you haven't ‎made your case. File it.

‎Okay, fellas, let's save it with the rest ‎of the Senate footage. Thanks.

‎Fred, uh...

‎Did you guys look ‎at the Secretary Stevens stuff?

‎-We will, John. Not yet. ‎-Just watch it to the end.

‎-All the way to the end. ‎-Thank you, John.

‎-Thank you, John. ‎-It's worth it.

‎

‎It's pretty good stuff, Ed.

‎You ever spent any time in Detroit, Fred?

‎We got 20 or so of these pieces filed.

‎There's a story here ‎in the ‎Detroit Free Press,

‎Dexter, Michigan.

‎Kid named Milo Radulovich.

‎-Italian? ‎-Irish.

‎Air force kicked him out ‎'cause his dad read

‎some Serbian newspaper.

‎They called Milo a security risk.

‎-Is his dad a Communist? ‎-I don't know.

‎-Who brought the charges? ‎-The air force.

‎The charges were in a sealed envelope.

‎-Nobody saw them. ‎-Not even at the hearing?

‎He was declared guilty without a trial ‎and told that if he wants to keep his job

‎he has to denounce ‎his father and his sister.

‎So he told them to take a hike.

‎His sister, huh?

‎Let's send Joe and Charlie down there, ‎see if he's any good on camera.

‎Is he being brought before the committee?

‎-No. ‎-So it's not McCarthy.

‎Isn't it?

‎Milo Radulovich.

‎Lt. Radulovich. ‎Uh, Milo, let me ask you this.

‎What happens now to your two children,

‎that is your five-year-old ‎and your five-month-old,

‎in terms of you?

‎Yes. If I am being judged on my relatives, ‎if, uh...

‎Are my children ‎going to be asked to, uh,

‎denounce me? Are they going to be judged

‎on what their father was labeled?

‎Are they going to, uh,

‎have to explain ‎to their friends, et cetera,

‎why their father is a security risk?

‎I... I see, absolutely, ‎that this is a chain reaction

‎if the thing is let stand ‎as the first recommendation

‎was sent out by the board, ‎I see a chain reaction that...

‎[chuckles] ...‎has no end ‎to anybody, for anybody.

‎Well, that's new.

‎And I don't think you can ‎call this a neutral piece.

‎We tried to talk to the air force...

‎I think the other side's ‎been represented--

‎They haven't gone on record.

‎-Their lawyers won't unseal the envelope. ‎-Hey!

‎So you just want to forego the standards ‎you've stuck to for over 15 years?

‎Both sides, no commentary.

‎

‎Hey, hey, hey, blah, blah, blah.

‎I'm just making sure we identify ‎what it is you're both doing.

‎I can't find any justification for this.

‎I can't accept that on every story ‎there are two equal and logical sides.

‎You want to call that editorializing? ‎We'll give them equal time.

‎-It is editorializing. Period. ‎-

‎You understand the position ‎you're putting us in?

‎We're all in it together.

‎If the Senate or the air force ‎asks for equal time...

‎Oh, Fred, do me this favor.

‎Avoid any speeches about how we're all ‎in a big boat together.

‎- ‎-Please, don't insult me.

‎I have to go back to ALCOA,

‎who sponsors your show ‎and also has military contracts,

‎and I gotta tell them ‎they might get caught

‎in a tough bind because you had ‎a beef with Joe McCarthy.

‎I'm not going at Joe McCarthy...

‎Well, you're starting a goddamn fire.

‎-I know what this is, Ed... ‎-You guaranteed me.

‎This goes back to ‎Hear It Now‎. ‎You guaranteed that corporate

‎would have no influence ‎over news content.

‎What I'm saying is ‎please don't try to con me

‎into thinking this will be good for me.

‎Just do me that courtesy.

‎I-- I'm sorry, Mr. Paley, Mr. Murrow.

‎Fred, there's a Colonel Anderson ‎here to see you.

‎[Fred] Okay, Shirley.

‎-Where is he? ‎-He's in your office.

‎Sorry, gentlemen. Uh...

‎Maybe this guy loves the transcript

‎and is here to congratulate me.

‎- ‎-

‎Go after Joe Kennedy. We'll pay for it.

‎

‎We got a great story about Hoover.

‎[chuckles] Do you know ‎how many ‎Person to Persons

‎you'll have to do to make this up?

‎Oh, Judy and her daughter Liza next week.

‎No chance. You will be interviewing Lassie ‎and then Mr. Ed back to back.

‎

‎ALCOA won't pay for it.

‎We probably won't either. ‎Nobody will stop you.

‎-How much are the ads? ‎-3,000.

‎I'll split it with Fred.

‎He just won't have ‎Christmas presents for his kid this year.

‎He's a Jew.

‎- ‎-Well, go tell Fred. He loves Christmas.

‎

‎Colonel.

‎[Anderson] Mr. Friendly.

‎Please.

‎[Fred] I trust you've had a chance ‎to review the transcript.

‎We have,

‎but we've not been allowed ‎to see the footage.

‎We're still shooting it.

‎Charlie Mack is on a plane from Dexter ‎with the last of the interviews.

‎We'll be going right down to the wire.

‎Your show airs tomorrow.

‎How can we possibly comment ‎on what we're being accused of?

‎-You haven't given us the foot-- ‎-Colonel...

‎With all due respect...

‎you have been invited ‎to comment on this piece.

‎Not to approve this piece.

‎We are going with the story ‎that says that the US Air Force

‎tried Milo Radulovich ‎without one shred of evidence

‎and found him guilty ‎of being a security risk

‎without the Constitutional right...

‎And you have also not seen the evidence ‎claiming he's not.

‎Wouldn't you guess that the people

‎that have seen the contents ‎of that envelope

‎might know a little more ‎about what makes a person

‎-a danger to his country? ‎-Who are these people?

‎-Are they elected, appointed? ‎-Should it just be you that decides?

‎Do they have an axe to grind?

‎-Is it you, sir? ‎-Mister Friendly.

‎Do you know even the contents ‎of that sealed envelope?

‎We have been a friend and ally ‎of Mr. Murrow and CBS News.

‎The story you intend to air ‎is without merit.

‎Now, before you take steps ‎that cannot be undone,

‎I urge you to reconsider your stand.

‎These are very dangerous waters ‎you're attempting to navigate.

‎Two minutes to air!

‎Damn it, Millie, unload ‎that thing before I crack.

‎-[Millie] A couple more seconds. ‎-All right.

‎[Millie] Ugh.

‎Okay.

‎-Is Don ready for this? ‎-I don't know.

‎Tell him I front-loaded the opening

‎with about five seconds extra.

‎Front-loaded, five seconds. ‎Thank you, Millie.

‎Oh, Millie, tell Joe he's gonna have

‎-to do the voiceover live. ‎-[Millie] Joe's on set.

‎-We ain't got time to sync it up. ‎-[Millie] No, you tell him.

‎We need a live mic on the floor.

‎[Millie] I'll get the mic set.

‎[Palmer] Hi, Don. It's front-loaded.

‎-How much? ‎-[Palmer] By about five seconds.

‎[Hewitt] I said it's too much!

‎-[Palmer] And it's missing the voiceover... ‎-Okay. Which piece is Joe gonna do live?

‎-[Palmer] His questions. ‎-Why don't we try to sync it up

‎-with the whole show on air? ‎-Yeah, Joe can do it live.

‎-I hate this. ‎-You love it.

‎Fred. Fred, did you time Ed's intro?

‎-I think we're gonna be long. ‎-Long is good, Don.

‎Remember, no commercial break.

‎Right. Right, I've gotta add two minutes.

‎Don, they're doing ‎a commercial in the booth.

‎What commercial? ‎We didn't have any commercial!

‎Okay. Yeah. Eddie, set up a mic.

‎[Millie] I got it, Don. I got it.

‎[Hewitt] And get that idiot ‎out of the booth!

‎[Eddie] Natalie...

‎[Hewitt] Joe, it's too loud in here.

‎-One minute. ‎-Three. Okay. Thank you.

‎[Fred] We got the film.

‎Will it be ready?

‎Yep.

‎What do you think, Freddie?

‎Every time you light a cigarette ‎for me, I know you're lying.

‎

‎We'll have it. We'll have it.

‎What'd the colonel tell you yesterday?

‎[chuckles] He wasn't too pleased.

‎You're gonna get audited this year.

‎Not me, you.

‎I told him I didn't want to do the piece.

‎

‎You always were yellow.

‎-Better than red. ‎-[Hewitt] Twenty seconds.

‎You know...

‎it occurs to me we might ‎not get away with this one.

‎

‎

‎[Hewitt] Ten seconds.

‎In five, four, three, two...

‎[announcer] ‎Stand by now for‎ See It Now ‎with Edward R. Murrow.

‎

‎[announcer] ‎ALCOA, ‎Aluminum Company of America,

‎in cooperation with CBS Television,

‎presents the distinguished ‎reporter and news analyst

‎Edward R. Murrow in ‎See It Now‎,

‎edited and produced by Mr. Murrow ‎and Fred W. Friendly,

‎a weekly presentation ‎of Aluminum Company of America,

‎the nation's leading producer of aluminum.

‎Now speaking to you from the control room

‎of Studio 41 is the editor of‎ See It Now,

‎-‎Edward R Murrow‎. ‎-[Hewitt] Live in five, four, three, two...

‎Good evening.

‎A few weeks ago there appeared ‎a few obscure notices

‎in the newspapers ‎about a Lt. Milo Radulovich,

‎a lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve.

‎And also something about ‎Air Force Regulation 35-62.

‎That is a regulation ‎which states that a person

‎may be regarded as a security risk

‎if he has close and continuing association ‎with Communists

‎or people believed ‎to have Communist sympathies.

‎The lieutenant was asked ‎to resign in August.

‎He declined. A board was called ‎and his case was heard.

‎At the end, it was recommended ‎that he be severed

‎from the air force, ‎although it was also stated

‎that there was no question whatsoever

‎as to the lieutenant's loyalty.

‎We propose to examine, insofar as we can,

‎the case of Milo Radulovich.

‎Our reporter, Joe Wershba, ‎cameraman, Charlie Mack.

‎[Joe] This is the town ‎of Dexter, Michigan,

‎population, 1,500.

‎This is the story of Milo Radulovich.

‎No special hero, no martyr.

‎He came to Dexter one year ago

‎after ten years in the air force.

‎The air force, uh...‎

‎...does not question my loyalty ‎in the least.

‎They have reiterated that ‎on several occasions.

‎Uh... They have presented me ‎with allegations

‎against my sister and father,

‎uh, that they have, uh...

‎To the effect that my sister ‎and dad have taken...

‎have read what are now called ‎subversive newspapers,

‎and that, um...

‎my sister and father's ‎activities are questionable.

‎That's the specific charge or allegation,

‎I prefer to call it, against them.

‎Lt. Radulovich was defended ‎by attorney Charles C. Lockwood,

‎and this is the report on the hearing.

‎The air force did not produce ‎a single witness.

‎We were not told who the accusers were.

‎We had no right to confront them

‎or to cross-examine them.

‎But at the conclusion of the trial,

‎although we had met the allegations,

‎the air force made findings

‎at the conclusion of the hearing

‎that every single allegation was true.

‎This is the sister, ‎Margaret Radulovich Fishman.

‎She neither defends nor explains ‎her political activities.

‎I feel that my activities, ‎well, be they what they may,

‎or my political beliefs, ‎are my own private affair.

‎And I feel that the charges, uh...

‎leveled against me ‎and by reason of which he is...

‎they are trying to purge him ‎from the army, are, uh,

‎just, you know, it just seemed to me to be

‎a fantastic trend in this country.

‎Milo, I guess a lot of people ‎must have asked you

‎from time to time.

‎Wouldn't it have been ‎a lot easier for you if you'd...

‎Well, just kept sort of quiet ‎about the whole thing?

‎Maybe resigned and nobody would ‎have known anything about it,

‎and all this trouble ‎wouldn't have come to you?

‎Yes, that's right. ‎I could have signed a, uh,

‎resignation form, which was titled

‎"A resignation in Lieu of ‎Elimination from the Service."

‎And this would have given me ‎an honorable discharge.

‎However, the honorable ‎discharge would have stipulated

‎that I had, you know, been discharged, uh,

‎because the air force could not trust me.

‎In other words, ‎because I have been discharged

‎as a security risk.

‎And what happens to your two children?

‎That is your five-year-old ‎and your five-month-old

‎in terms of you?

‎Yes, if I am being judged on my relatives,

‎if, uh, are my children ‎going to be asked to, uh...

‎denounce me? Are they going to be judged

‎on what their father was labeled?

‎Are they going to, uh,

‎have to explain ‎to their friends, et cetera,

‎why their father is a security risk?

‎I see absolutely ‎that this is a chain reaction

‎if... if the thing is let stand ‎as the first recommendation,

‎uh, was sent out by the board, ‎I see a chain reaction

‎-that has no end to anybody... ‎-‎Five, four, three, two...

‎...for anybody.

‎Perhaps you'll permit me to read ‎a few sentences just at the end

‎because I'd like to say ‎rather precisely what we mean.

‎We have told the air force ‎that we will provide facilities

‎for any corrections or criticisms

‎it should like to make ‎in the case of Milo Radulovich.

‎We are unable to judge the charges against

‎the lieutenant's father ‎or sister because neither we,

‎nor you, nor they, nor the lawyers

‎know precisely what was contained ‎in that manila envelope.

‎Was it hearsay, rumor, gossip, slander?

‎Or was it hard ascertainable fact ‎that can be backed by credible witnesses?

‎We do not know.

‎We believe the son ‎shall not bear the iniquity

‎of the father even ‎if that iniquity be proved.

‎And, in this case, it was not.

‎But we also believe that this ‎case illustrates the urgent need

‎for the armed forces ‎to communicate more fully

‎than they have so far done ‎the regulations and procedures

‎to be followed in attempting ‎to protect national security

‎and the rights of the individual.

‎In any case, whatever happens ‎in this whole area

‎of the relationship between the individual ‎and the state, we will do it ourselves.

‎It cannot be blamed ‎on Malenkov or Mao Tse-Tung

‎or even our allies. And it seems to us, ‎that is Fred Friendly and myself,

‎that this is a subject that should be ‎argued about endlessly.

‎Good night, and good luck.

‎[announcer] ‎Friday's Edward R. Murrow

‎Person to Person, ‎on the CBS Television Network.

‎[Hewitt] And we're out.

‎

‎

‎-Are we in for it, Freddy? ‎-

‎-I think we're fine. ‎-

‎

‎[Ella] Oh, I like the sound ‎of this.

‎What's this tune? Ah, all right.

‎I sure hope I remember these words.

‎It's been a while. Right here.

‎♪ ‎I've got my eyes on you ‎♪

‎♪‎ So best beware ‎Where you roam ‎♪

‎♪‎ I... ‎♪

‎-♪‎ No, don't know the word ‎♪

‎[producer] Great.

‎♪ ‎I thought I did ‎But I don't... ‎♪

‎Incidentally.

‎♪‎ Incidentally ‎I... ‎♪

‎Thank you, Lorain.

‎♪‎ Set my spies on you ‎I'm checking on all you do ‎♪

‎♪ ‎From A to Z ‎♪

‎♪‎ So, darling, just be wise ‎♪

‎♪ ‎Keep your eyes on me ‎♪

‎♪‎ Keep your eyes on me ‎♪

‎All right, let's take five. ‎Gotta learn these words.

‎

‎

‎Oh, that's all the room ‎we had on the fence for it.

‎Lee, how old are you?

‎I'm 35, Ed.

‎Well, at 35, looking back ‎at all that's happened,

‎what comes to your mind first?

‎Ed, I would say that God ‎has been very, very good to us

‎in making all of this happen ‎to our family.

‎And I suppose that nowhere ‎but in the United States

‎could this happen to an ordinary

‎American family like ours.

‎I'm very grateful.

‎Well, surely something must get under ‎your skin once in a while, doesn't it?

‎Well, about the only thing ‎that bothers me is

‎when people accuse me of...

‎of having a following ‎only of nice old ladies.

‎I have nothing ‎against the nice old ladies,

‎but I like nice young ladies, too.

‎- ‎-Well, Lee,

‎thanks so much for letting us ‎come and visit you.

‎And will you say goodnight ‎to the rest of your family for us?

‎-I certainly would. ‎-Thanks. Thanks a lot.

‎-‎Thank you so much. Good night, Ed. ‎-Good night, Lee.

‎Next week we'll take you ‎to Beverly Hills, California,

‎and the home of Mickey Rooney ‎and his new bride.

‎Until then, good night, and good luck.

‎[John] And we're out.

‎

‎[cameraman] Good show, Ed.

‎

‎

‎Mr. Murrow.

‎Uh, Mr. Murrow, Mr. Paley was wondering ‎if you'd meet him for a drink.

‎When?

‎Uh, now. He's at the Pentathon Bar.

‎What's he doing there?

‎Will you just call him, Shirley, ‎will you, please?

‎-I'll let him know. ‎-Thank you.

‎-Hi, Don. ‎-Hi, Shirley.

‎Huh.

‎

‎You're getting good at this, Ed.

‎They're gonna think you like it.

‎[chuckles] Pays the bills. ‎How are you, Don?

‎It's day to day.

‎Well, if she saw how good you ‎look right now, she'd be back.

‎Tell her that if you see her, will ya?

‎So I read the O'Brian piece.

‎Yeah, it's pretty tough.

‎I'm a pinko. I slant the news.

‎Just waiting for him to say ‎my wife left me too.

‎Well, nobody worth their salt reads him.

‎-You read him. ‎-Well, see, I rest my case.

‎

‎Does Paley read him?

‎Bill Paley's not going ‎to do anything, Don.

‎Listen, Ed. Thanks.

‎I just came over because I wanted to say ‎how great the lieutenant piece was.

‎-Thanks. ‎-How's the fallout?

‎Mostly good, surprisingly.

‎Is this the start? Are you taking sides?

‎It's just a little poke ‎with a stick, see what happens.

‎Well, let me know if I can help.

‎-But you're a pinko, Don. ‎-I'll see you, Ed.

‎-Yeah. ‎-

‎[announcer] ‎May I have your attention, ‎please, on track one.

‎The 8:30 train to New Haven ‎has been canceled.

‎We apologize for any inconvenience.

‎Hey, Joe, what's all this ‎Radwich junk you're putting out?

‎Oh, Don, I got nothing to say to you now.

‎We just gotta get this film ‎off to the lab.

‎What would you say if I told you

‎that Murrow was ‎on the Soviet payroll in 1934?

‎Uh, give us a sec, will you, Charlie?

‎Sure. I gotta use the head anyway.

‎Hey, Joe, watch yourself ‎with this guy.

‎Is, uh, McCarthy going ‎to the Eisenhower dinner?

‎No idea. I don't keep ‎the senator's calendar for him, Joe.

‎Oh, really?

‎[announcer] ‎This is a track ‎change announcement.

‎The 8:45 Northeast Corridor ‎train to New York City

‎will be arriving on track two.

‎What, you don't watch ‎any spy films, Donald?

‎You can't just hand me ‎a classified folder.

‎You gotta slip it in my briefcase ‎when I'm not looking.

‎It's actually perfect. ‎I didn't know who to give

‎this information to, Paley or Murrow.

‎As you can imagine, ‎Fred and I aren't very friendly.

‎-No pun intended. ‎-No pun elocuted.

‎

‎Elocuted. Is that a word ‎or did you just make that up?

‎You boys and your words.

‎Is Ed in New York right now ‎memorizing a thesaurus? Joe.

‎What's another word for thesaurus?

‎Oh, it must be awfully quiet ‎at the Algonquin now that you're gone.

‎Except for Harpo talking away.

‎All right, Donald, what do you got?

‎In short, Ed Murrow's ‎been a Communist sympathizer

‎since the 1930s.

‎Member of the Industrial Workers ‎of the World,

‎sponsor of educational trips to Moscow

‎and on the Soviet payroll ‎in 1934. It's all there.

‎Uh, you, uh...

‎You want to know why that's not possible?

‎Or why you're gonna lose this one, Donald?

‎Because everybody in the country knows

‎that, if nothing else, ‎Ed Murrow is a loyal American.

‎-He is a patriot. ‎-Hmm.

‎Did you know that the word gullible ‎isn't in the dictionary, Joe?

‎-Can I give this to Ed? ‎-I'd like you to.

‎I have copies.

‎I think you guys go too far.

‎Well, if it walks like a duck ‎and talks like a duck...

‎It's a terrible shame.

‎Murrow's brother being ‎a general in the air force.

‎What'd I miss?

‎Nothing.

‎Donald was just leaving. He's...

‎got a hole to crawl back into.

‎[Don chuckles] Give my best to Ed.

‎-Bill. ‎-Hello, Ed.

‎How's Janet? How's your boy?

‎-All well, how's babe? ‎-Fine. She's fine.

‎Well, her fundraiser got rained on.

‎Yeah, that's why I don't plan anything.

‎Really? You wouldn't know it.

‎-Reading fiction? ‎-I hope. [laughs] You tell me.

‎Well, we know ‎how they're gonna come at us.

‎That's just the first shot. ‎Somebody will go down.

‎Now, have you checked your facts?

‎-Are you on safe ground? ‎-It's time. Show our cards.

‎They're my cards.

‎You lose, what happens? ‎Five guys find themselves out of work.

‎I am responsible for a hell of a lot more ‎than five goddamn reporters.

‎Let it go.

‎McCarthy will self-destruct, ‎Cohn, all of them.

‎It's not like you to run from a fight.

‎-I'm not running from anything. ‎-Is that so?

‎Hey.

‎-I write your check. ‎-Yeah.

‎I put you in that country house. ‎I put your son through school.

‎And you should have told me about this ‎before it got so far down the road.

‎Is it an apology that you want?

‎We don't make the news, Ed. ‎We report the news.

‎99% percent of the time ‎he is wrong

‎about the people he labels ‎as being a Communist.

‎If he goes too far, ‎the Senate will investigate him,

‎-and we will report on that. ‎-But 100% of the time

‎he is wrong when he steps ‎on their civil liberties.

‎What are you doing, Ed? ‎You are trying him in the press.

‎No. You have decided on this, ‎and you're presenting it as fact.

‎So where do you wanna take this?

‎

‎Every one of your boys has to be clean. ‎You understand? No ties.

‎If Aaron's mother went to a group ‎theater fundraiser in 1932, he is out.

‎Hewitt, too. Everyone in that room. ‎Make no mistake, I will cut them loose.

‎And Corporate will not interfere ‎with Editorial.

‎But Editorial will not jeopardize

‎the hundreds of employees ‎of the Columbia Broadcasting System.

‎- ‎-Yes?

‎[secretary] ‎Mr. Paley, ‎Senator Symington is on the phone.

‎

‎And we're not advertising it.

‎Hello, Stu. Right.

‎Well, yes, Senator, I do have a question.

‎The US military is said to have

‎better nuclear capabilities ‎with much smaller bombs.

‎But the Soviets have developed ‎longer-range missiles,

‎which pits the two powers ‎against each other

‎in a race to build the first ‎intercontinental rocket

‎capable of delivering a nuclear explosion.

‎The Soviets believe ‎they have the upper hand.

‎But military experts ‎here at home are confident

‎the US will win the race

‎to complete a full ‎and functioning missile...

‎[John] Is this about our sponsors?

‎Are we afraid ‎of losing our sponsors?

‎[Palmer] Have we lost sponsors?

‎-Come on. ‎-I don't understand...

‎Fellas, listen... Let me make it easier.

‎I just need to know, ‎for the good of the peace,

‎if any of you have any connection at all.

‎Read a Communist newsletter. ‎Traveled to St. Petersburg.

‎Was your mother dating ‎a socialist in 1922?

‎You know what, ‎why don't you leave my mother out of this?

‎Don't care. I just need to know.

‎You know, I had ‎a fling with a fascist once.

‎Oh, that must have been fun.

‎No, not after the war. ‎They were a little down.

‎[Fred] Knock it off. Knock it off.

‎Maybe it was you, Eddie. ‎It was definitely you, Eddie.

‎And I think I should excuse myself.

‎I'm gonna have to excuse myself.

‎

‎No, really, let me get it out now.

‎-I don't wanna hurt us. ‎-Christ. Okay, that kills us.

‎Oh.

‎My ex was...

‎I... [sighs] I wouldn't say ‎she was a Communist, but...

‎she certainly attended meetings.

‎It was before we were married,

‎and it never came up ‎until after we were divorced.

‎It didn't matter then, we were...

‎We were all on the same side.

‎Look, I'm not telling you ‎anything you don't already know.

‎But the thing of it is, ‎somebody will find out

‎and they'll hurt us with it.

‎Hurt us? We can't do the story.

‎I should have told you sooner.

‎[sighs] I'm sorry, Fred. Ed...

‎

‎Sit down, Palmer.

‎Sit down.

‎[chuckles] I...

‎If none of us ever read a book ‎that was dangerous

‎or had a friend that was different,

‎or joined an organization ‎that advocated change...

‎we would all be the exact kind ‎of person Joe McCarthy wants.

‎We're gonna go with the story...

‎because the terror is right here ‎in this room.

‎Our next report will be ‎about the junior senator

‎from Wisconsin and, Fred, ‎we use only his words,

‎you understand?

‎Okay, fellas, that's it.

‎All the footage we've banked. Everything.

‎John, you and Joe and Charlie ‎go through the HUAC hearings.

‎Eddie and Palmer, see what else we have. ‎Any speeches he gave or interviews.

‎His own words, boys, that's what we need.

‎Millie, give me those notes.

‎-[Ella] Yeah. ‎-

‎

‎♪ There may trouble ahead ♪

‎♪ But while there's moonlight ♪

‎♪ And music and love and romance ♪

‎♪ Let's face the music and dance ♪

‎♪ Before the fiddlers have fled ♪

‎♪ Before they ask us to pay the bill ♪

‎♪ And while we still got a chance ♪

‎♪ Let's face the music and dance ♪

‎♪ Soon, we'll be without the moon ♪

‎♪ Humming a different tune and then ♪

‎♪ There may be teardrops to shed ♪

‎♪ But while there's moonlight and music ♪

‎♪ And love and romance ♪

‎♪ Let's face the music and dance ♪

‎♪ Let's face the music ♪

‎♪ And dance ♪

‎

‎[Hewitt] Two minutes to air.

‎-Are we gonna make it? ‎-We lost a projector.

‎Yeah, we'll make it.

‎Excuse me, Mr. Murrow. ‎Uh, Mr. Paley's on the line.

‎Maybe he's gonna reimburse us for the ads.

‎-You'd like that. ‎-[Fred] I would like that.

‎

‎This is Ed.

‎Hey, the Knickerbockers ‎are playing tonight

‎and I got front row seats. ‎Are you interested?

‎I'm a little busy bringing down ‎the network tonight, Bill.

‎

‎Oh, is that tonight?

‎-The Knickerbockers you said. ‎-[Bill] Front row.

‎It's tempting.

‎So you know, we're covered.

‎All right.

‎I'm with you tonight, Ed.

‎And I'll be with you ‎in the morning as well.

‎Thanks, Bill.

‎[Shirley] What do you think, Joe?

‎I think we're ready.

‎I wish we could wait ‎till we get more footage.

‎I just don't think we can take the chance.

‎I think that we have to hit McCarthy ‎before he can come after Ed.

‎Well, they haven't gone ‎after The Alsops or Herb Block.

‎Yeah. [chuckles] The Alsops ‎and Herb Block didn't work

‎for the Institute of ‎International Education in 1934.

‎Then I guess it's time.

‎-Okay. ‎-[Shirley] Hi.

‎-Hi. ‎-Hi.

‎[Shirley] Bye.

‎-Bye. ‎-Bye.

‎You worried?

‎I didn't think I was. Uh...

‎I... I don't know why. ‎I was in the office on Friday.

‎I answered the phone.

‎It was Howard calling from London.

‎He asked me ‎what was going on with McCarthy

‎and before I answered him I turned

‎and looked over my shoulder ‎to see who was listening.

‎And who was listening?

‎-Chairman Mao. ‎-

‎-Ah, Joe, your ring. ‎-Jesus Christ.

‎Name me another wife ‎who reminds her husband

‎to take off his wedding ring ‎before he goes to the office.

‎-Ava Gardner. ‎-

‎[Hewitt] Thirty seconds.

‎

‎[clears throat] Beautiful.

‎[Hewitt] Twenty seconds.

‎[Hewitt] Ten seconds.

‎[Hewitt] In five, four, three, two.

‎Good evening.

‎Because a report ‎on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy

‎is by definition controversial, ‎we wanna say

‎exactly what we mean ‎and request permission to read

‎from a script any remarks ‎Murrow and Friendly may make.

‎If the senator feels ‎that we have done violence

‎to his words or pictures ‎and he wishes to speak

‎to answer himself,

‎an opportunity will be afforded him ‎on this program.

‎Our working thesis tonight ‎is from this quotation,

‎"If this fight against ‎Communism has made a fight

‎between America's ‎two great political parties,

‎the American people ‎know that one of those parties

‎will be destroyed ‎and the Republic cannot endure

‎very long as a one-party system."

‎We applaud that statement.

‎We think Senator McCarthy should as well. ‎He said it 17 months ago in Milwaukee.

‎The American people realize ‎that this cannot be made a fight

‎between America's ‎two great political parties.

‎If the fight against Communism ‎is made a fight

‎between America's ‎two great political parties,

‎the American people know ‎that one of those parties

‎will be destroyed ‎and the Republic can't endure

‎very long as a one-party system.

‎On one thing the senator ‎has been consistent.

‎Often acting as a one-man committee, ‎he has traveled far, interviewed many,

‎terrorized some, ‎accused civilian and military leaders

‎of the past administration ‎of a great conspiracy

‎to hand over the country to Communism.

‎Well, may I say ‎that I was extremely shocked

‎when I heard that Secretary Stevens

‎told two Army officers ‎that they had to take part

‎in the cover-up of those who promoted ‎and coddled Communists.

‎As I read each statement, I, uh... ‎thought of that quotation,

‎"On what meat doth this our Caesar feed?"

‎And upon what meat ‎does Senator McCarthy feed?

‎Two of the staples of his diet ‎are the investigations

‎protected by immunity and half-truths.

‎You... You attended Columbia University

‎-in the early '30s? ‎-[Harris] ‎I did, Mr. Chairman.

‎Will you speak a little louder, sir?

‎[Harris] ‎I did, Mr. Chairman.

‎And were you expelled from Columbia?

‎[Harris] ‎I was suspended from ‎classes on April 1st, 1932.

‎I was later reinstated. ‎And I resigned from the university.

‎[McCarthy] ‎And you resigned ‎from the university.

‎Uh...

‎Did the Civil Liberties Union ‎provide you with an attorney

‎at that time?

‎[Harris] ‎I had many offers ‎of attorneys, and one of those

‎was from the American Civil ‎Liberties Union. Yes.

‎The question is, ‎did the Civil Liberties Union

‎supply you with an attorney?

‎[Harris] ‎They did supply an attorney.

‎-The answer is yes. ‎-‎[Harris] ‎The answer is yes.

‎Uh, you know the Civil Liberties Union

‎has been listed as a front for, ‎and doing the work of,

‎the Communist Party.

‎[Harris] ‎Mr. Chairman, this was 1932.

‎[McCarthy] ‎Yeah, I know this was 1932.

‎Do you know that they ‎since have been listed

‎as a front for, and doing the work of, ‎the Communist Party?

‎[Harris] ‎I do not know ‎that they have been listed.

‎So, sir, no, I do not.

‎-‎You don't know they have been listed? ‎-‎I have heard that mentioned...

‎or read that mentioned.

‎Now, you wrote a book in 1932. ‎I'm going to ask you again.

‎At the time you wrote this book,

‎did you feel that professors ‎should be given the right

‎to teach sophomores that marriage...

‎uh, let me quote... "should be ‎cast out of our civilization

‎as antiquated and stupid ‎religious phenomena?"

‎Was that your feeling at that time?

‎[Harris] ‎My feeling was that professors ‎should have the right to express

‎their considered opinions on any subject, ‎whatever they were, sir.

‎[McCarthy] ‎I'm going to make you ‎answer this.

‎I'll answer yes. But you put ‎an implication on it.

‎And you feature this particular ‎point out of a book,

‎which, of course is quite out of context,

‎does not give a proper impression ‎of the book as a whole.

‎The American public doesn't ‎get an honest impression

‎of even that book, bad as it is...

‎[Hewitt] Back in five, four, three, two...

‎The Reed Harris hearing illustrates ‎one of the senator's techniques.

‎Twice he said the American ‎Civil Liberties Union was listed

‎as a subversive front.

‎The Attorney General's list ‎does not and never has

‎listed the ACLU as subversive,

‎nor has the FBI or any other ‎federal government agency.

‎And the ACLU holds in its files

‎letters of commendation ‎from President Truman,

‎President Eisenhower, ‎and General MacArthur.

‎Earlier, the senator asked,

‎"Upon what meat ‎does this our Caesar feed?"

‎Had he looked three lines earlier

‎in Shakespeare's ‎Caesar, ‎he would have found this line,

‎which is not altogether inappropriate,

‎"The fault, dear Brutus, ‎is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

‎No one familiar with the history ‎of this country can deny

‎that congressional committees are useful.

‎It is necessary to investigate ‎before legislating,

‎but the line between investigating ‎and persecuting is a very fine one.

‎And the junior senator from Wisconsin ‎has stepped over it repeatedly.

‎We must not confuse ‎dissent with disloyalty.

‎We must remember always ‎that accusation is not proof,

‎and that conviction depends upon evidence ‎and due process of law.

‎We will not walk in fear, one of another.

‎We will not be driven ‎by fear into an age of unreason,

‎if we dig deep ‎in our history and our doctrine,

‎and remember that we are not ‎descended from fearful men,

‎not from men who fear to write, ‎to speak, to associate,

‎or to defend the causes that are,

‎for the moment, unpopular.

‎We proclaim ourselves as indeed ‎we are the defenders of freedom,

‎wherever it continues ‎to exist in the world,

‎but we cannot defend freedom ‎abroad by deserting it at home.

‎The actions of ‎the junior senator from Wisconsin

‎have caused alarm and dismay ‎amongst our allies abroad,

‎and given considerable comfort ‎to our enemies.

‎And whose fault is that?

‎Not really his.

‎He didn't create this situation of fear.

‎He merely exploited it, ‎and rather successfully.

‎Cassius was right.

‎"The fault, dear Brutus, ‎is not in our stars,

‎but in ourselves." ‎Good night, and good luck.

‎

‎[Hewitt] And we're out.

‎[Hollenbeck] Good evening.

‎I don't know whether all of you ‎have seen what I just saw,

‎but I want to associate myself ‎and this program

‎with what Ed Murrow has just said

‎and say that I've never been ‎prouder of CBS.

‎And now the news...

‎Feel like a scotch?

‎I think everybody could use one.

‎[Ed] Yep.

‎[Hollenbeck] Women have moved ‎into another male domain.

‎In 20 United States cities

‎they've proved themselves ‎highly efficient

‎in parking and traffic control.

‎

‎

‎[Ed] Fritz, what time is it?

‎Uh... 3:30. Early editions are out now.

‎[Ed] Oh, I'm not worried about that.

‎[chuckles] No, of course not.

‎Hey, Shirl, honey, run down ‎and pick up the early edition.

‎-[Shirley] All of them? ‎-All of them.

‎-Just get O'Brian. ‎-

‎- ‎-[Shirley] All right. Uh... Watch my drink.

‎Yeah, I'll go with you, Shirley.

‎

‎I'm gonna have to fire Joe ‎so those two can date.

‎-Cigarette? ‎-I quit.

‎Good time to quit.

‎Yeah, but what could you do?

‎Well, first we want to see ‎if we have jobs tomorrow.

‎And if we still have jobs tomorrow,

‎then, uh, Tail Gunner Joe ‎gets to return fire.

‎What's he gonna say?

‎Uh, he's gonna say ‎we're, uh, a pinko organization

‎-with a leftist agenda. ‎-We used his own words.

‎It's, uh...

‎Well, we do have a leftist agenda.

‎I'm a pinko.

‎

‎A little too loud there, Charlie.

‎

‎It's got awfully quiet there, didn't it?

‎We've got Annie Lee Moss.

‎We can have that together ‎by next week if need be.

‎-Is that a whole show? ‎-It's close.

‎-Listen, Ed. ‎-

‎There's not gonna be ‎a shortage of material on him.

‎What we have to do now ‎is keep up the pressure

‎till his rebuttal...

‎and then move to Calcutta.

‎

‎-Sure do miss radio. ‎-You've got a face for radio.

‎That's what my wife keeps telling me.

‎[Shirley] All right, here we go. ‎We've got all of them.

‎Um, ‎The Post, The Times.

‎-Who wrote it? ‎-[Shirley] Jack Gould.

‎

‎"Edward R. Murrow's television program

‎on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy ‎was an exciting and provocative

‎examination of the man and his methods.

‎It was crusading journalism ‎of high responsibility and courage.

‎For TV so often plagued ‎by timidity and hesitation,

‎the program was a milestone that reflected ‎enlightened citizenship."

‎Okay. He didn't like it.

‎[Eddie] Yeah, what's this guy's beef, huh?

‎[Shirley] Wait. Hold on. Hold on.

‎"The program was no less ‎an indictment of those who wish

‎the problems posed ‎by the senator's tactics

‎and theatrics would just ‎go away and leave them alone.

‎That was Mr. Murrow's ‎and television's triumph,

‎and a very great one."

‎-Hear, hear! ‎-

‎Fritz, send ‎The New York Times ‎a bottle of scotch.

‎I already did. How do you think ‎we got that review?

‎

‎-[Palmer] What about ‎The Post? ‎-[Ed] Hmm.

‎-[Joe] It's pretty good. ‎-[staff] Yeah. Yeah.

‎-What about O'Brian? ‎-[Shirley] The same.

‎- ‎-Shirley, what did O'Brian say?

‎Oh, I don't have it. ‎Um, Joe, what about you?

‎Uh... I... No, it's here somewhere.

‎[Shirley] Okay, um...

‎Hang on. I... Okay. ‎[clears throat] Jack O'Brian.

‎"We can't say we were surprised ‎at Edward R. Murrow's

‎hate-McCarthy telecast last evening

‎when his explosively one-sided propaganda, ‎edited with deviously clever selectivity

‎for McCarthy's march against Communism, ‎was finished last evening.

‎By equally Machiavellian coincidence,

‎the following telecast featured ‎Murrow's PM protégé, Don Hollenbeck."

‎- ‎-What?

‎"Uh, in an obviously ‎gloating mood, Hollenbeck hoped

‎viewers had witnessed his patron's triumph ‎from and for the left."

‎Uh, and so on and so on.

‎Yeah, I guess O'Brian doesn't like scotch.

‎-It's okay, Shirley. Finish it. ‎-Shirley, read ‎The Post,‎ huh?

‎-That's it, Don. It's just-- ‎-Shirley, finish it.

‎-[Shirley] That's it, Don. ‎-[Joe] Don, that's it.

‎Shirley.

‎Okay.

‎

‎"The Columbia Broadcasting System

‎has been in a lengthy ‎clean-house of lefties mood.

‎The worst offenders on lesser levels

‎have been quietly ‎pushed out of the company.

‎Don Hollenbeck, a graduate ‎of the demised pinko publication

‎'PM,' attacked conservative newspapers ‎with sly and slanted propaganda.

‎He then proceeded through ‎an equally tilted review

‎of the day's events, ‎with McCarthy dominating

‎his words, actions, attitude and camera..."

‎[sighs] It's O'Brian.

‎I think I'll have that cigarette, Ed.

‎- ‎-Yep.

‎-[Fred] I'm heading out. ‎-Yeah.

‎Got a staff meeting in five hours.

‎[Joe] Whoa! Whoa, it is late.

‎[Fred] Hmm.

‎Do you... Do you wanna share a cab?

‎Oh, uh, yeah.

‎-You headed downtown? ‎-Yes.

‎But where do you live, Shirley?

‎-Oh, she lives downtown. ‎-Yes.

‎Hang in there, Don.

‎[Hollenbeck] See ya, boys.

‎-[Charlie] See ya. ‎-[Palmer] See ya, Ed, Don.

‎-I appreciate it. ‎-[Joe] Big day tomorrow.

‎Yeah. Today, you mean, huh?

‎[staff] We're drinking. We're drinking?

‎

‎Sorry I missed you the other night, Don.

‎I need to ask you something, Ed.

‎It's about O'Brian.

‎-O'Brian doesn't matter. ‎-He's killing me.

‎He doesn't make ‎a bit of difference in the news.

‎It's not just him. ‎We have to let this guy have it.

‎We're not gonna go after O'Brian.

‎I'm not gonna take on McCarthy and Hearst.

‎I can't beat them both. ‎Don't read the paper, Don.

‎Or don't read O'Brian, anyway.

‎No.

‎No. I guess not.

‎

‎

‎I wake up in the morning...

‎and I don't recognize anything.

‎I feel like I went to sleep ‎three years ago

‎and somebody hijacked the...

‎As if all the reasonable people ‎took a plane to Europe

‎-and left us behind. ‎-

‎

‎

‎

‎Huh?

‎-Uh, I was always... ‎-

‎I was always an optimist. Really. ‎I always thought things work out.

‎Half full.

‎Yeah.

‎I believe in the system, Don.

‎As disastrous as it can seem ‎at times, I believe in it.

‎We designed it to fix it.

‎Madison built it into the Constitution, ‎for Christ's sake. It's a...

‎I was talking about my divorce.

‎So was I.

‎

‎Well, I'm glad the forefathers understood ‎the term "dissolution of a union."

‎[chuckles] Sure, they had ‎their difficulties with the opposite sex.

‎I'm talking about McCarthy.

‎So was I.

‎Well, I thought I'd try.

‎Sorry, Don.

‎We never had this conversation, okay?

‎If it's okay with you, Senator.

‎

‎Don't laugh. I've thought about it.

‎- ‎-[announcer] ‎From Studio 41

‎in Grand Central Station, New York City...

‎- ‎-‎...The Morning Show.

‎-How long for that new copy? ‎-Just give me an hour.

‎Uh, it's gonna need an hour.

‎-You've been here all night? ‎-Yeah. We got a deadline.

‎-Yeah... ‎-We just got back from D.C.

‎McClellan just took an axe to McCarthy ‎at the Pentagon Hearing.

‎-[Charlie] He called McCarthy evil. ‎-[Palmer] Wait, who did?

‎Senator McClellan, sitting two seats ‎down from McCarthy...

‎I've gotta get this to the land.

‎...gets up, calls him evil.

‎-Wait, who's evil? ‎-Did you get it on camera?

‎-Yeah, I think we did. ‎-Wait, who is evil?

‎-Oh, Eddie... ‎-I can hear you.

‎

‎What are they doing there?

‎Uh, rewriting the Constitution.

‎They were there for the original.

‎Uh, hold on, Joe. ‎Palmer, can I talk to you for a minute?

‎-[Palmer] Yeah. Sure, Fred. ‎-[Fred] Uh, just a second one.

‎-Fred. ‎-[Fred] Yeah?

‎Uh, fellas, uh, ‎McCarthy's office just called.

‎-He wants equal time. ‎-When?

‎-April 6th. ‎-In studio?

‎He wants to film it in his office.

‎Who?

‎McCarthy.

‎[Palmer] Jesus Christ.

‎They... They told me ‎Buckley wanted to respond.

‎No. Uh...

‎It's McCarthy.

‎Yeah, but are they gonna ‎let Charlie shoot it?

‎What's he gonna say?

‎

‎I know what it's gonna be.

‎He's gonna come after me. ‎It's the only thing he can do.

‎He's gonna bet that a Senator ‎trumps a newsman.

‎-Ha. He'll lose. ‎-

‎Maybe.

‎[sighs] Okay, fellas, here we go.

‎Joe, call Stanton and let him know.

‎-You got it. ‎-John, uh, let's see

‎all the Eisenhower footage you've got.

‎We'll need to prep for his spots.

‎-Okay, Fred. Yup. ‎-Um, Palmer.

‎Phil in Legal wants ‎to have a word with you.

‎-Okay. Now? ‎-Uh, yes, now is best.

‎Never very good news, is it?

‎Not often.

‎[on phone] ‎Operator.

‎Can you connect me with Phil in Legal?

‎Right away.

‎

‎-‎Mr. Williams. ‎-Guilty.

‎- ‎-‎Let's hope not.

‎There isn't a lot of time, ‎so I'll be brief.

‎This network is under ‎a tremendous amount of pressure.

‎-‎These stories aren't helping. ‎-I... I understand.

‎I'm not sure you do.

‎There's a great deal of concern ‎about your past positions.

‎-My wife's past position? ‎-‎That's right.

‎HUAC has a file on you.

‎-How do you know? ‎-‎A file was sent to Mr. Paley yesterday.

‎Well, that's interesting timing.

‎Well, when you strike at a king...

‎Or a junior senator from Wisconsin?

‎CBS is prepared to make an offer.

‎-Uh-oh. ‎-‎If you submit your resignation,

‎CBS will cover any legal expenses ‎you might incur on this subject.

‎-That's awfully kind of you. ‎-‎No, it isn't.

‎-No, it isn't. ‎-

‎These guys don't play around. ‎They're relentless.

‎They will cost you everything you have.

‎I understand.

‎Do you?

‎Palmer...

‎take the deal.

‎If these guys decide to call you in, ‎we will cut you loose.

‎And then no one will be there to help. ‎Not CBS, not Murrow.

‎No one.

‎Phil, you're a good guy.

‎And I... I appreciate that this is your job...

‎but what you're asking me to do, ‎I could never do.

‎I understand.

‎It's funny how your life can be upended

‎-just for telling the truth. ‎-And marrying a communist.

‎-Oh, yeah. There is that. ‎-

‎Be careful.

‎Yeah.

‎

‎[Hewitt] Ed. It's 28 minutes.

‎I could clip a little off the ends.

‎I think we have to leave it alone. ‎Very smart. No time for comment.

‎Came in ten minutes ago and we put it up, ‎saw the first couple of minutes...

‎-You're right. ‎-He's coming after me.

‎Okay. Thanks.

‎Charlie, have you seen the latest polls?

‎The most trusted man in America ‎is Milton Berle.

‎

‎Maybe he should do the story.

‎[Ed] Hey, Fred.

‎What say we grab ‎a little dinner after the show?

‎-The 21 Club? ‎-Sure.

‎Forty-five seconds to air.

‎Look...

‎there's nothing fun about this one.

‎You just gotta put your gloves down, ‎stick your chin out,

‎and just take it for a whole round.

‎-Next week's our round. ‎-If I make it up off the mat.

‎-You will. ‎-[Hewitt] Thirty seconds.

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‎Good evening.

‎One month ago tonight we presented ‎our report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.

‎We labeled it as controversial. ‎Most of that report

‎consisted of words and pictures ‎of the senator.

‎At the time, we told the senator

‎that if he feels that we have ‎done violence to his words

‎or pictures and he wishes ‎to speak to answer himself,

‎an opportunity would be ‎afforded him on this program.

‎The senator sought that opportunity,

‎asked for a three-week delay ‎because he said he was very busy

‎and wished adequate time ‎to prepare his reply. We agreed.

‎We placed no restrictions ‎on the method or manner

‎of the presentation of his reply,

‎and suggested that we would not take time ‎for comment on this program.

‎Here now is Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, ‎junior senator from Wisconsin.

‎Uh, good evening.

‎Mr. Edward R. Murrow, Educational Director ‎of the Columbia Broadcasting System,

‎devoted his program ‎to an attack on the work

‎of the United States Senate ‎Investigating Committee

‎and on me personally as its chairman.

‎Now, ordinarily... ordinarily, ‎I would not take time out

‎from the important work at hand ‎to answer Murrow.

‎However, in this case, ‎I feel justified in doing so

‎because Murrow is a symbol,

‎the leader and the cleverest ‎of the jackal pack,

‎which is always found at the throat ‎of anyone who dares to expose

‎individual Communists and traitors.

‎I am compelled by the fact ‎to say to you that Mr. Edward R. Murrow,

‎as far back as 20 years ago

‎was engaged in propaganda ‎for Communist causes.

‎For example, the Institute ‎of International Education,

‎of which he was the acting director,

‎was chosen to act as a representative ‎by a Soviet agency

‎to do a job which would normally be done ‎by the Russian Secret Police.

‎Now, Mr. Murrow, by his own admission, ‎was a member of the IWW,

‎that's the Industrial Workers ‎of the World,

‎a terrorist organization ‎cited as subversive

‎by an Attorney General ‎of the United States.

‎Now, Mr. Murrow said ‎on this program, and I quote,

‎he said, "The actions ‎of the junior senator from Wisconsin

‎have given considerable ‎comfort to the enemy."

‎That is the language of our Statute ‎of Treason, rather strong language.

‎If I am giving comfort to our enemies, ‎I ought not to be in the Senate.

‎If, on the other hand, ‎Mr. Murrow is giving comfort

‎to our enemies, he ought not to be brought ‎into the homes of millions of Americans

‎by the Columbia Broadcasting System.

‎This is a question...

‎which can be resolved ‎with very little difficulty...

‎I have to go to Philadelphia ‎in the morning.

‎-What time is your train? ‎-Uh, 8:00.

‎-Is Charlie going with you? ‎-Mm-hmm.

‎[Joe] I don't...

‎- ‎-uh... want to say...

‎what I'm about to say.

‎-Uh-oh. ‎-Yeah.

‎You want a divorce?

‎No. Do you?

‎Depends on what you're about to say.

‎

‎I just keep having this nagging thought...

‎that we might be wrong.

‎About what?

‎Well...

‎-there are Communists here. ‎-Yes.

‎[chuckles] And hey don't always ‎have our best interests at heart.

‎-Probably not. ‎-Yeah.

‎-Does McCarthy? ‎-Well...

‎The argument could be made...

‎it's for the greater good.

‎-That's one argument. ‎-Like Alger Hiss... was.

‎Alger Hiss had a trial.

‎[chuckles] Alger Hiss faced his accusers.

‎-He went to jail. ‎-That's right.

‎That's how this works.

‎So, we're not gonna look back and...

‎say we protected the wrong side?

‎-You're right, Joe. ‎-Yeah?

‎-I want a divorce. ‎-

‎Yeah, wouldn't blame you.

‎When did you start smoking?

‎-Fifteen minutes ago. ‎-

‎Good evening.

‎Last week, Senator McCarthy appeared

‎on this program to correct ‎any errors he might have thought

‎we made in our report of March 9th.

‎Since he made no reference ‎to any statements of fact,

‎we must conclude that he found

‎no errors of fact.

‎He proved, once again, that anyone ‎who exposes him, anyone who does not share

‎his hysterical disregard ‎to decency and human dignity

‎and the rights guaranteed ‎in the Constitution

‎must be either a Communist ‎or a fellow traveler.

‎I fully expected this treatment.

‎The senator added this reporter's name

‎to a long list of individuals ‎and institutions

‎that he has accused of serving ‎the Communist cause.

‎His proposition is a very simple one.

‎Anyone who criticizes ‎or opposes McCarthy's methods

‎must be a Communist. And if that be true,

‎there are an awful lot ‎of Communists in this country.

‎For the record, let us consider briefly ‎some of the senator's charges.

‎He claimed, but offered no proof,

‎that I was a member of the ‎Industrial Workers of the World.

‎That is false. ‎I never was a member of the IWW.

‎Never applied for membership.

‎The senator charged ‎that Professor Harold Laski,

‎a British scholar and politician, ‎dedicated a book to me.

‎That is true. He is dead. ‎He was a socialist. I am not.

‎He was one of those civilized individuals

‎who didn't insist upon agreement ‎with political principles

‎as a precondition ‎for friendship or conversation.

‎I don't agree with his political ideas.

‎Laski, as he makes clear ‎in the introduction,

‎dedicated the book to me ‎not because of political agreement,

‎but because he held my wartime broadcasts

‎from London in high regard, ‎and the dedication so reads.

‎I believed 20 years ago, ‎and I believe today,

‎that mature Americans ‎can engage in conversation,

‎controversy, a clash of ideas ‎with Communists anywhere

‎in the world without becoming ‎contaminated or converted.

‎I believe that our faith, our conviction,

‎our determination ‎are stronger than theirs,

‎and that we can compete, and successfully,

‎not only in the area of bombs, ‎but in the area of ideas.

‎I have worked for CBS for 19 years.

‎The company has subscribed fully ‎to my integrity

‎as a broadcaster and as a loyal American.

‎I require no lectures ‎from the junior senator from Wisconsin.

‎Having searched ‎my conscience and my files,

‎I cannot contend that I have ‎always been right or wise.

‎But I have attempted to pursue the truth

‎with some diligence ‎and to report it, even though,

‎as in this case, ‎I had been warned in advance

‎that I would be subjected ‎to the attentions

‎of Senator McCarthy.

‎We should hope to deal with matters

‎of more vital interest ‎to the country next week.

‎Good night, and good luck.

‎

‎And we're out.

‎- ‎-[singer] ‎♪ Use new White Rain ♪

‎♪ Shampoo tonight ♪

‎♪ And tomorrow your hair ‎Will be sunshine bright ♪

‎- ‎-♪ Sun, rain, sun, rain ♪

‎Good morning.

‎[Ella] How are you feeling?

‎How am I... [laughs] How are you feeling?

‎What time did you leave last night?

‎[Imani] She didn't leave last night.

‎I didn't leave this morning.

‎- Uh, it's just this today. ‎-Oh, just this.

‎Yes, ma'am.

‎♪ Somewhere there's music ♪

‎♪ How faint the tune ♪

‎♪ Somewhere there's heaven ‎How high the moon ♪

‎- ‎-Uh...

‎Uh, what time are we going till today?

‎Oh, uh... I'll get back ‎to you in a minute.

‎[scoffs] We'll be here.

‎"In the last analysis, ‎the senator was perched

‎on the television high dive ‎and all prepared

‎to make a resounding splash.

‎He jumped beautifully, ‎but neglected to che...

‎...to check first ‎where he was going to land."

‎"It must have been something

‎of a shock to discover that Mr. Murrow ‎had drained the water out of the pool."

‎

‎-[Charlie] Jack Gould. ‎-[Joe] ‎The Times.

‎Yeah, ‎The Times.

‎[Joe] He's a... hell of a writer.

‎We should hire him away from ‎The Times.

‎Yeah. Well, uh, CBS has got ‎a public opinion survey here

‎that, uh, Elmo Roper put together.

‎-Uh-oh. ‎-Says,

‎"Thirty-three percent of all households ‎believe McCarthy proved you're a Commie..."

‎[Palmer] Only 33 percent?

‎Listen, listen, listen.

‎The Senate is investigating McCarthy.

‎

‎

‎Oh, oh, you'll be all right, Palmer.

‎-You'll be all right. ‎-Palmer!

‎Fritz, did you hear?

‎The Senate's investigating McCarthy.

‎We're a hit. ‎We're up there with Howdy Doody.

‎[Fred] Hold on, Ed.

‎[Ella] ‎♪ Somewhere there's music ♪

‎♪ How faint the tune ♪

‎♪ Somewhere there's heaven ♪

‎♪ How high the moon ♪

‎♪ There is no moon ♪

‎♪ Above ♪

‎♪ When love ♪

‎♪ Is far away too ♪

‎♪ Until it comes true ♪

‎♪ That you love me ♪

‎♪ As I love you ♪

‎One of the best programs I ever heard

‎was called ‎CBS Views the Press.

‎A great many people liked it, some didn't.

‎But no one would say ‎it was anything but honest.

‎It was the work of an honest ‎reporter, Don Hollenbeck.

‎He also worked occasionally on‎ See It Now.

‎He did the 11:00 p.m. news ‎over some of these stations.

‎He'd been sick lately, ‎and he died this morning.

‎The police said it was suicide.

‎Gas.

‎Not much of an obit...

‎but at least we got our facts straight, ‎and it was brief.

‎That's all Don Hollenbeck ‎would have asked.

‎Good night... and good luck.

‎[Ella] ‎♪ Until you will ♪

‎♪ How still my heart ♪

‎♪ How high the moon ♪

‎

‎Son of a bitch.

‎

‎[John clears throat] Here.

‎See It Now.

‎Uh, yeah. Circulate that memo to 41.

‎Yeah. Circulate to Stanton. ‎Circulate to Sig.

‎Um, everybody gets that memo. Got it?

‎Yes. Well, Sunday, 4:30.

‎Yes. 4:30, Sunday. Yes.

‎[John] All right.

‎[John] Yep. Okay. Thanks. Yep. Thank you.

‎Joe. Shirley.

‎Can I talk to you both? ‎Let's use the editing room.

‎Millie, could you excuse us for a minute?

‎Shirley...

‎-how are you? ‎-

‎Fine, Fred.

‎Is there a... Is there a problem, Fred?

‎I wanna ask you both ‎a question...

‎...but I don't want you to answer it.

‎Just consider it.

‎I know you two are married.

‎Everyone knows. That's not my question.

‎

‎In the next few weeks...

‎I have to lay a couple of people off.

‎We're making some significant ‎cuts across the board.

‎I... I wanted you to know that because, uh...

‎if you have any intention ‎in the near future

‎of starting a family...

‎I would say to you that you could save ‎someone else from being fired.

‎I'm...

‎asking you to consider making ‎this decision a little easier.

‎

‎I don't need an answer now. ‎Just think about it.

‎Well...

‎Mrs. Wershba...

‎

‎We're really going to miss you ‎around here, Joe.

‎

‎-Everybody knew. ‎-

‎[Bill] Yeah. The problem ‎isn't simply that you lost your sponsor.

‎Even with ALCOA, ‎See It Now‎ still loses money.

‎The fee is $50,000.

‎Last week's show ‎we did for less than the fee.

‎We'll find another sponsor.

‎$64,000 Question‎ brings in ‎over 80,000 in sponsors,

‎and it costs a third of what you do.

‎Ed, I've got Tuesday night programming.

‎It's number one.

‎Because people just want ‎to enjoy themselves.

‎They don't want a civics lecture.

‎-Well, what do you want, Bill? ‎-Well, I don't want

‎a constant stomachache ‎every time you take on a...

‎controversial subject.

‎That's a price you have ‎to be willing to pay.

‎Careful, Ed.

‎Let's walk very carefully ‎through these next few moments.

‎The content of what we're doing ‎is more important

‎than what some sponsor ‎in Cincinnati, Ohio thinks.

‎No, no. What you're doing.

‎Not me, not CBS. You.

‎CBS News, ‎See It Now, ‎they all belong to you.

‎-Well, you wouldn't know it. ‎-Is it credit that you want?

‎I never censored a single program.

‎-Oh, my... ‎-I've kept our affiliates

‎who just wanted entertainment from us.

‎And I fought to keep our license

‎with the same politicians ‎you were working to bring down.

‎And I never said no to you.

‎-Not once. ‎-I would argue that we have

‎-done well by one another. ‎-[Bill] Never!

‎I would argue that this network is defined

‎by what the news department ‎has accomplished.

‎I would also argue not saying "no"

‎is not the same as not censoring.

‎Really?

‎You should teach journalism.

‎No, let me ask you this.

‎Why is it that you always refer to him

‎as the junior senator from Wisconsin?

‎Because he's the junior senator ‎from Wisconsin.

‎

‎Not likely.

‎You taunt him, Ed, like a cat ‎with a ball of string.

‎But now, you see, you've opened the door.

‎News with a dash of commentary.

‎What happens when it isn't ‎Edward R. Murrow minding the store?

‎[sighs] I...

‎What do you wanna do, Bill?

‎[sighs] I'm gonna take your show ‎from half an hour to an hour.

‎But it won't be a weekly program ‎and it won't be on Tuesday night.

‎-When would it be? ‎-Sunday...

‎afternoon.

‎How many episodes?

‎Five.

‎[scoffs] Why don't you just fire me, Bill?

‎

‎Well, Ed, I don't think ‎it's what either of us wants.

‎You owe me five shows.

‎You won't like the subject matter.

‎No, probably not.

‎

‎[Fred] He wants me ‎to lay a few people off.

‎Hmm.

‎I'm sure.

‎Let's do the next show ‎about the downfall of television.

‎

‎So, if the Senate votes ‎to censure McCarthy,

‎-what happens then? ‎-

‎He sits in the back row.

‎-But they don't kick him out? ‎-No, he stays.

‎He'll just... just lose all of his power.

‎He's already lost all of his power.

‎[chuckles] Right.

‎Now, they just teach him a lesson.

‎Yeah.

‎They're moving ‎See It Now ‎to Sunday afternoons.

‎Uh-oh.

‎

‎-How many episodes? ‎-Five.

‎

‎[smacks lips] Well...

‎might as well go down swinging.

‎We'll do the story ‎about the migrant farm workers.

‎-Make a couple of enemies. ‎-

‎The most trusted man ‎in America is Milton Berle.

‎

‎See? Maybe you should have worn a dress.

‎-Hmm. ‎-

‎My legs are too skinny.

‎-Feel like a scotch? ‎-Scotch is good.

‎Did you know that Joe ‎and Shirley were married?

‎Sure.

‎Did everyone know?

‎-Pretty much. ‎-

‎Oh, it's nothing.

‎I meant to do you no personal injury.

‎-[Cohn] ‎No? ‎-And if I did,

‎I beg your pardon.

‎Let us not assassinate ‎this lad further, Senator.

‎-[McCarthy] ‎Let's... Let's... ‎-You've done enough.

‎Have you no sense of decency, ‎sir, at long last?

‎Have you left no sense of decency?

‎[McCarthy] ‎I know this hurts you, ‎Mr. Welch.

‎I'll get the scotch.

‎[Mr. Welch] ‎I'll say it hurts.

‎[McCarthy] ‎If I may say, Mr. Chairman, ‎as a point of personal privilege,

‎I'd like to finish this.

‎[Mr. Welch] ‎Senator, ‎I think it hurts you too, sir.

‎[McCarthy] ‎I'd like to finish this.

‎Mr. McCarthy, I will not ‎discuss this further with you.

‎You have sat within six feet ‎of me and could have...

‎and could have asked me about Fred Fisher.

‎You have seen fit to bring it out,

‎and if there is a God in ‎heaven, it will do neither you

‎nor your cause any good.

‎I will not discuss it further.

‎I will not ask, Mr. Cohn, ‎any more witnesses.

‎You, Mr. Chairman, may, if you will, ‎call the next witness.

‎[chairman] ‎Are there any questions to come ‎from the members of the chair?

‎I begin by saying our history will be ‎what we make of it.

‎If we go on as we are, ‎then history will take its revenge

‎and retribution will not limp ‎in catching up with us.

‎Just once in a while ‎let us exalt the importance

‎of ideas and information.

‎Let us dream to the extent of saying

‎that on a given Sunday night, ‎the time normally used

‎by Ed Sullivan, is given ‎over to a clinical survey

‎on the state of American education.

‎And a week or two later, ‎the time normally used

‎by Steve Allen

‎is devoted to a thoroughgoing study ‎of American policies in the Middle East.

‎Would the corporate image ‎of their respective sponsor be damaged?

‎Would the stockholders rise up ‎in their wrath and complain?

‎Would anything happen ‎other than a few million people

‎would have received a little ‎illumination on subjects

‎that may well determine ‎the future of this country?

‎To those who say people wouldn't look, ‎they wouldn't be interested,

‎they're too complacent, indifferent...

‎insulated,

‎I can only reply there is...

‎in one reporter's opinion,

‎considerable evidence ‎against that contention.

‎But even if they are right... ‎what have they got to lose?

‎Because, if they are right ‎and these instruments are good

‎for nothing but to entertain, ‎and amuse, and insulate...

‎then the tube is flickering now...

‎and we will soon see ‎that the whole struggle is lost.

‎- ‎-

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‎[Cronkite] ‎...the flash, ‎apparently official,

‎President Kennedy died at 1:00 p.m...

‎[Armstrong] ‎One small step for man, ‎one giant leap...

‎Sock it to me, sock it to me, ‎sock it to me, sock it to me?

‎Ladies and gentlemen, ‎the Beatles. Bring them on.

‎[reporter] ‎What happened here ‎at Kent State University defined a name.

‎Your president's a crook. ‎Well, I'm not a crook.

‎[announcer] ‎The space shuttle‎ Challenger ‎has exploded.

‎Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

‎It doesn't fit. If it ‎doesn't fit, you must acquit.

‎They're supposed to be ‎married in three weeks.

‎-What are you doing? ‎-

‎-You are not the father. ‎-Yeah!

‎Weapons of mass destruction...

‎Didn't the media get rolled ‎by the Bush administration?

‎We got him. We got him. We got him.

‎[reporter] ‎Look at New York City. ‎This is at the World Trade Center.

‎[reporter 2] ‎A big explosion ‎has just occurred.

‎What exactly happened on 9/11?

‎Conspiracy theories continue ‎to saturate the internet.

‎Terrorist fist jab...

‎He was wearing this tan suit...

‎For all you kids watching at home,

‎-Santa just is white. ‎-The big lie.

‎-‎...on Dominion Voting... ‎-‎...company is called Dominion...

‎Another in a series of stolen elections...

‎President Biden has a photographic memory...

‎-He's totally focused. ‎-He's very sharp at meetings.

‎-Forget about the evidence. ‎-Alternative facts to that...

‎FBI operatives were organizing ‎the attack on the...

‎The FBI had 26 of their people ‎on the inside.

‎-...false flag operation... ‎-Obtain millions of dollars

‎and apologizing to the president-elect...

‎- ‎-

‎Please raise your right hand ‎and repeat after me.

‎

‎

‎

‎These instruments...

‎can teach,

‎they can illuminate,

‎they can even inspire.

‎But they can do so only ‎to the extent that humans

‎are determined to use them to those ends.

‎Otherwise...

‎they're merely wires and lights in a box.

‎There is a great...

‎and perhaps decisive battle to be fought,

‎against ignorance,

‎intolerance,

‎indifference.

‎It's a fight for the very soul ‎of this Republic.

‎And so the question is a very simple one.

‎Not what power unchecked can do. ‎We have seen that answer.

‎No.

‎The question is...

‎what are you prepared to do?

‎The fault, dear Brutus...

‎Good night,

‎and good luck.

‎

‎

‎♪ Let's take a boat to Bermuda ♪

‎♪ Let's take a plane to Saint Paul ♪

‎♪ Let's grab a kayak to Quincy Or Nyack ♪

‎♪ Let's get away from it all ♪

‎♪ Let's take a trip in a trailer ♪

‎♪ No need to come back at all ♪

‎♪ Let's take a powder ‎To Boston for chowder ♪

‎♪ Let's get away from it all ♪

‎♪ We'll travel 'round from town to town ♪

‎♪ We'll visit every state ♪

‎♪ I'll repeat that I love you sweet! ♪

‎♪ In all the forty-eight ♪

‎♪ Let's take a boat to Bermuda ♪

‎♪ This time we'll keep dig the Fall ♪

‎-♪ Let's leave our hut, dear ♪ ‎-♪ Get out of our rut, dear ♪

‎♪ Let's get away, love ‎♪

‎♪ ‎Let's fly away, love ♪

‎♪ Let's get away from it all ♪

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