Title

Staying tuned : a life in journalism

Description

The last of the legendary Edward R. Murrow news team still active in journalism tells of adventures in the McCarthy anti-Communist hearings, Watergate coverage, the CBS bureau in Moscow, and revelations of CIA and FBI misdeeds that brought him before the House Ethics Committee and threatened with a jail term if he didn't name his sources. (He didn't, and the threat was never carried out.)--Jacket.

Identifier

952323

671020870

Creator

Schorr, Daniel

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2001

Program air date: July 1, 2001

Publisher

Pocket Books

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes from front endpapers: "Tues. May 8, 2 p.m. - b. Aug. 31, 1916. - Dad dies at six, 1922. - 1933: grad. H.S. - 1/4 century at CBS, 6 years at CNN. - Stringer - measuring stories with a string. - Sydney Gruson - my most endearing friend in journalism - married Flora Lewis. - Rick Salant fired me - CCNY: hotbed of radicalism. - Jewish Telegraph Agency: 7 years. - Fired - ANETA - Dutch agency - in AP Bld. - Drafted 1943: Ft. Riley Kansas - San Antonio - 1946 - back ANETA - to Holland for a year. - Married to Li Bamberger: 1967 - I, 50, she 36. - Martin L.K. - media agitate violence, p. 204; menacing sound bites my ticket to the evening news. - Queen Juliana: subversive speeches, p. 35. - source: E.R. - Miss Hofmann, the faith healer. - I went to see her after she was kicked out of the palace; she was 58. - Life mag.: Dutch told me not to write story. - p. 97: "Khrushchev - the most fascinating person I've ever met". - Interview (1957) - Stuart Novins - B.J. Cutler - in the Kremlin you attended a lot of embassy receptions with K. - no smoking or make-up; Ike's response, p. 102. - Back home: 33 lectures in 30 days about Sputnik etc. - Wasn't let back in Russia / Kalb back in 1960. - Q.S. sees K. in Poland; Nixon visit. - K. visits U.S.; in San Fran discussed Comm. ideology with me. - V-2 flight shot down - K. leaves 4 power meeting in France. - Forced to retire in 1964, died in 1971." - Notes from half title page: "Richard Helms: c. sucker, p. 269. - Journalists as spies, Pike comm[ittee], p. 278. - Applied for 60 Min. job. - 1st interview with Director CIA. - Church commission - assassinations of 8 leaders. - Giacana - 'had little zest to invesitgate scandal of dead President', p. 273. - Smoking gun tapes, June 23, 1972: Nixon may have known about JFK and Exner - from J.E. Hoover. - "I seemed to generate irritation" - all the way to Oval O. - Nixon - pre-Watergate, p. 233 - became a target, great CBS network behind me. - FBI visited me to interview for position of "trust and confidence". - Did you get documents through FOI file? - Buchanan on Cavett: give the guy fat paycheck, p. 235. - Nixon - Schorr: that Son of a Bitch. - Made "watergate reporter"; Howard Hunt: "visual story". Bill Small: SOB; "enemies list" revealed at the hearings. - Roundtable discussion after Nixon resignation led to my resignation; never made peace with CBS after commentary, p. 255." - Notes from back endpapers: "Ulcer medicine - Rhodesia, 1965. - I wanted Wash. over N.Y. because of an unhappy childhood; excised 2/3s of my stomach. - I wanted HEW, Treas. civil rights. - German award - weird - finally presented in Wash. - 1966, June 20th: Jim Scheuer's home: met Lisbeth Bamberger; said no German medals. - p. 142: Greatest ethical dilemma of my career: Poland/Russia and Jewish immigrants bound for Israel.- Why ask Murrow about it? - MiG stands: Mi for Artem Mikoyan; G for codesigner Mikhail Gurevich. - Adenauer's Germany: M. Paley and the reverse shots - but it is honest after interview with Ulbricht, p. 163. - Paley didn't understand "that television relies on small deceptions." - Where do you get all of your old quotes? - Commentary on JFK's Berlin visit, p. 170. - When did you collaborate with the CIA? - Pike Comm. - p. 277, Lesley Stahl and Aaron Latham: most tumultuous experience of my career. - Moscow correspondent: Adenauer visit, 1955, the censor; unaccredited, not entitled to hire a translator; Victor Lewis - KGB - unofficial translator, fed me wrong info., p. 69. - p. 312: CNN: I testified on violence; Ted and I clashed on an editorial of Ted's on violence. - What about WWF? - John Connally, wouldn't participate with him on same side of the table. What's the difference if you have strong personal views? - After Dallas my relationship with CNN strained against Turner's "imperial ambition", give the dish back. - Paley / Goldwater / CBS, San Fran. - Goldwater exploded at [?] report that obvious enthusiasm right wing Germans had for Goldwater; he vacations there after conventions as guest, Ge. William Quinn, Sally. - Cronkite said he missed JFK funeral. - Bellagio's fellowship twice - 10 years apart. - How can a reporter influence a story when they choose? -- Annotations by Brian Lamb in the margins and underlining of pertinent phrases throughout the book. Examples; p. 222: "But the Nixon campaign had induced the South Vietnamese government to refuse negotiations and wait for a better deal from a Nixon administration. At the cost of a longer war, Nixon won the election." - p. 223: "... the federal government has been the most humanizing governmental factor in American life in the past eight years. Against the apathy of the states and the inability of the cities to cope with their problems, the federal government has gone in with hundreds of programs directed to human beings."

Subject

"Schorr, Daniel, 1916-2010."

"Journalists--United States—Biography."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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