BEAVER — The Oscar-nominated movie “Good Night, and Good Luck,” has revived the legacy of Edward R. Murrow.
Journalists who worked under Murrow and younger ones inspired by his career have reminisced about the man who set the bar for journalistic integrity in the 1940s and ’50s.
But many don’t know that the pioneer of broadcast journalism, whose signature sign off was “Good night, and good luck,” began his adult life in the logging camps of the West End.
Murrow — who delivered one of America’s first live broadcasts from the front lines of World War II and brought down Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., at the height of the Red Scare –developed his courageous spirit in the logging camps at Sappho and Beaver.
It was in the logging camps of the 1920s where Murrow, who was known as Egbert at the time, began using the name Ed.
