"Good night, and good luck”...It was a nightly close immortalized by Emmy-winning journalist Edward R. Murrow following each of his broadcasts. He gained prominence during World War II with live broadcasts from Europe. Reporting from the front, he flew with 25 combat missions in Europe during the war.

Edward R. Murrow brought rooftop reports of the Blitz of London into America's living rooms before this country entered World War II. After the war, Murrow and his team of reporters brought news to the new medium of television.

A pioneer of radio and television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of reports on his television program See It Now that helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Murrow won four Peabody awards, the Medal of Freedom, and as an American was knighted an honorary commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, Bill Downs, Dan Rather, and Alexander Kendrick consider Murrow one of journalism's gr