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I Can Hear It Now was a one-hour historical radio show that starred Edward Murrow, one of the best broadcast journalists America has ever had. Murrow gained popularity after his on-the-scene reports on World War II. The show started in 1950, and was heard every Friday nights at 9pm.

Already an achiever at a young age, Murrow was the president of both the student body and debate team. He started working at CBS in 1935 with William Shirer. When Austria was annexed by the Nazi Germany in 1938, Murrow, who was at Poland during at that time, flew all the way to Vienna to give an on-the-scene report for CBS. Such report was said to be groundbreaking. From then on, he was assigned to give live reports from Europe during WWII. One of his most notable reports was during The Blitz, that event when the Germans bombed the city of London.

After the Second World War, Murrow, who came to be really popular because of his reports, teamed up with Fred Friendly to create I Can Hear It Now. His show and career on CBS continued to blossom, until he was hired by then-President John F. Kennedy to become the Director of US Intelligence Agency.

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Air Date	Title	Synopsis
06.08.1951	hear it now (26) serge kousevitsky dies	+ Program #26. Korean War news: a reporter is nearly blown up by a mortar, Serge Kousevitsky dies,...
05.25.1951	hear it now (24) guided missile recordings	+ Program #24. Korean War news, MacArthur recalled, the first recording of a guided missile (a V2 ...
05.18.1951	hear it now (23) crime hearings	+ Program #23. Crime hearings, national politics, MacArthur, Korean War news, the new Chicago atom...
05.11.1951	hear it now (22) the macauthor truman controversy	+ Program #22. The MacArthur-Truman controversy explored in depth. What is our Korean policy? Lion...
05.04.1951	hear it now (21) reno and the divorce business	+ Program #21. Excellent Korean combat reportage, the MacArthur controversy continues, the dead B-...
04.27.1951	hear it now (20) communist offensive in korea	+ Program #20. The Communist offensive begins in Korea, Radio Free Europe broadcasts to Hungary wi...
04.20.1951	hear it now (19) macauthur speaks before congress	+ Program #19. MacArthur returns home in triumph and speaks before Congress...covered in detail. T...
04.13.1951	hear it now (18) truman fires macauthur	+ Program #18. Excellent coverage of MacArthur's removal by Truman, Korean War news, a feature on ...
04.06.1951	hear it now (17) recording of a parachute jump	+ Program #17. Korean war news and a recording of a parachute jump: on the way down. Cold War and ...
03.30.1951	hear it now (16) the human tick	+ Program #16. The Human Tick, Kefauver Crime hearings and crime in the U. S. A., Korean War news,...
03.23.1951	hear it now (15) costello crime hearings	+ Program #15. The televised Costello Crime hearings (Senate Crime Commission) examined in detail,...
03.16.1951	hear it now (14) the kefauver crime hearings	+ Program #14. The Kefauver Crime Hearings put Frank Costello on the spot, Korean War developments...
03.09.1951	hear it now (13) a biography of a labor union	+ Program #13. Korean War news, General MacArthur, letters to Congressman ad other political news....
03.02.1951	hear it now (12) cold war news	+ Program #12. National politics, Herbert Hoover, Korean War news, Cold War predictions, internati...
02.23.1951	hear it now (11) truman names a tank	+ Program #11. Truman names a tank, national politics, the Cold War, the strange Arkansas Hound Do...
02.16.1951	hear it now (10) isolationist debate in washington	+ Program #10. Isolationist debate in Washington, should we re-cross the 38th parallel? Fourteen h...
02.09.1951	hear it now (09) a big train wreck	+ Program #9. A big train wreck, railroad strikes, Republican politics and Senator McCarthy, Eisen...
02.02.1951	hear it now (08) special report on detroit	+ Program #8. Murrow is out with laryngitis, Douglas Edwards and Charles Collingwood read Murrow's...
01.26.1951	hear it now (07) the cost of a pound of steak	+ Program #7. The voices of Eisenhower, Truman, MacArthur, Stassen, Leo Durocher, The biography of...
01.19.1951	hear it now (06) u.s. navy ships being recommissioned (first half of program)	+ Program #6. U. S. Navy ships are being re-commissioned. The federal budget and the making of U. ...
01.12.1951	hear it now (05) retreat in korea	+ Program #5. Retreat in Korea, Eisenhower returns to Europe, Truman vs. Taft (a look at their dif...
01.05.1951	hear it now (04) the fall of seoul, korea	+ Program #4. The program features the voice of Everett Dirksen, the fall of Seoul, Korea, a victo...
12.29.1950	hear it now (03) more news from the korean war front	+ Program #3. News and features from the Korean front, the U. N. building in New York opens for bu...
12.22.1950	hear it now (02) abe burrows interviews santa claus	+ Program #2. Abe Burrows reviews Santa Claus, Peoria, Illnois and mobilization: how a small town ...