As the tide of World War II changed, Murrow continued to describe the drama of the war from the most informed of positions, right where it was unfolding. He flew more than 40 combat missions aboard Allied bombers, telling his audience that over Berlin "men die in the sky while others are roasted in their cellars."

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Murrow was a passenger aboard a Douglas C-47 transport aircraft that dropped paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division into Holland during Operation Market-Garden in September 1944. In April 1945, he visited the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. "I pray you believe what I have said about Buchenwald," he stated. "I reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words."

After the war, Murrow became vice president and director of public affairs for CBS. He took his radio program Hear It Now to television in 1951 as See It Now. In 1954, his sense of honesty and fair play compelled him to use his show as the platform for a stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy’s witch hunts aimed at exposing Communists in the United States.

Edward R. Murrow left CBS in 1961 to become director of the U.S. Information Agency. He died of cancer in 1965 at the age of 57.

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