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Mar 15, 2015AQUILEA777 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Murrow opposed reckless accusations of Communism, but he assumed that real Communists were evil, and he supported U.S. Cold War intransigence. The film omits Eisenhower's efforts to subvert popular governments in Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia, Vietnam, Congo, and elsewhere. The U.S. demanded vassalage and sought to ruin vulnerable independent leaders. In the early 1960's, Murrow was chief of the U.S. Information Agency. He made a propaganda film, THE CHALLANGE OF IDEAS, which claimed the U.S. never meddled in the internal affairs of others, and warned of Soviet aid to emerging nations and Communist calls for peace. Murrow was involved in early propaganda for the U.S. war in Vietnam, where we would kill 2,000,000 people who had not attacked us, all in the name of stopping Communism. Murrow smoked incessantly. The film indicates one of his TV sponsors was a cigarette supposedly for the thinking person. How many admiring viewers were influenced by Murrow's vicious example? He died of lung cancer at age 57.