Don's unedited CBS interviews at Ohio U's Wired for Books
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ARCHIVES #7 — 2018
MISTER SHIRER GIVES A TALK
Murrow, Shirer
As war clouds formed in the Europe of the 1930s, Edward R. Murrow's first hire for CBS News was the young one-eyed wire-service reporter William L. Shirer [1904-1993], whose book Berlin Diary, remains the definitive account of those awful days. In their formative broadcast years, Murrow and Shirer weren't allowed to go on the air themselves, but arranged for newspaper reporters to broadcast "talks." Don Swaim spoke with Shirer about his early days with Murrow:
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ANOTHER OF MURROW'S BOYS
Renown CBS News Correspondent David Schoenbrun launched his career with CBS in 1939 as a part-time translator of foreign broadcasts. He tells about his relationship with Edward R. Murrow [three shots of Scotch and no script] during WW II and how Shoenbrun became the CBS News Paris Bureau Chief in 1947. In this 40-minute interview with Don Swaim, Shoenbrun also talks about his battles with the right-wing witch-hunters of his day, and, almost as bad, the CBS bureaucracy.
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David Shoenbraun's America Inside Out
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| FIGHTING THE HUN
IN WWI
On October 20, 1918, my grandfather, Captain John E. (Jack) Swaim, of the U.S. Army's 89th Division, was gassed by the Germans in the Argonne. He survived to tell of his combat in The Great War in both words and pictures. June 28, 2014, marked the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One.
I prepared a pictorial history of my grandfather's combat, told mostly in his own words and using photographs and postcards he sent home from Europe. He proved to be a damned good writer. Read it HERE. |  |
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