See It Now

Murrow’s television series See It Now. Her role as a goodwill ambassador for the United States was formalized in September 1958 when she was made a delegate to the United Nations. Anderson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, and she…

…that included Person to Person, See It Now, and You Are There. From 1954 to 1960 he directed live dramas for such series as Playhouse 90 (42 shows, including The Days of Wine and Roses and The Turn of the Screw) and Studio One. Frankenheimer also worked on Climax!, and…

…1951 to 1958 he directed See It Now, a weekly news show hosted by Edward R. Murrow. Hewitt later served as executive producer of CBS News with Walter Cronkite (1962–81), and he created the popular 60 Minutes in 1968; he served as executive producer of the series until 2004. He…

…coproducing a television news series, See It Now (CBS, 1951–58). Murrow also hosted the show, presenting in-depth reports of current news, and in 1953 he and Friendly turned their attentions to anticommunism. On Oct. 20, 1953, they broadcast a story on Lieut. Milo Radulovich, who had been dismissed from the…

Murrow’s See It Now (CBS, 1951–58), and 60 Minutes, which had been on since 1968, set the standard. ABC’s newsmagazine 20/20 was introduced in 1978. With production costs for traditional prime-time programming rising to nearly prohibitive heights at the same time that ratings were plummeting because…

…carried out on his show, See It Now, cemented him as the premier journalist of the time. McCarthy was censured for his conduct by the Senate, and in 1957 he died. While McCarthyism proper ended with the senator’s downfall, the term still has currency in modern political discourse.

…television with a comparable series, See It Now. Murrow was a notable force for the free and uncensored dissemination of information during the American anticommunist hysteria of the early 1950s. In 1954 he produced a notable exposé of the dubious tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had gained prominence with…