Today's the 57th anniversary of what has been called the “finest half hour” in television history — when Edward R. Murrow took to the small screen to confront Joseph R. McCarthy and the senator's red-baiting ways.
Murrow's on-air analysis of McCarthy and his tactics was so powerful, so revealing, that it marked an abrupt end to the senator's witch-hunt for communists in government.
Or so the media myth has it.
The occasion was Murrow's 30-minute See It Now program that aired on CBS on March 9, 1954.
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