Norman Horowitz: Don't Mess With the Long Ranger or Walter Cronkite - Politics on The Huffington Post

I'm not sure if this is relevant but I heard that at the United Nations Chapel, Edwin Newman, also like Walter Cronkite, a famous television journalist, read a eulogy about my cousin George Murray, an award winning television producer of NBC news, who started in the "film at eleven" news editing room, becoming a director of "Huntley and Brinkley" one of the early pioneers of TV news along with CBS's and eventually producing both Democratic and Republican convention coverages for CBS in 1976. He died in Mexico where his wife was introducing Avon beauty products there.

I heard at the eulogy in the UN chapel that Mr. Newman read a letter George Murray had to send to his crew in Vietnam who were in a long investigative job of trying to show the "common soldiers view" of the conflict, which was canceled by higher-ups. If you recall sometime after the end of the Vietnam War, the entire NBC network was sued by General Westmoreland for millions, settled for an undisclosed amount, over an NBC News retrospective of the war, where in it was alleged or shown, that body counts had been manipulated by the US military to show, or alleged to show, that it was winning not losing. His crew had spent many dangerous months there and it was a shame that these "higher-ups" had made sure the documentary got nowhere I believe.

Norman Horowitz: Don't Mess With the Long Ranger or Walter Cronkite - Politics on The Huffington Post