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Events on Tuesday 27 April 1965 1
1908 – 1965Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965)Died 27 April 1965, aged 57Edward R. Murrow was an American broadcast journalist renowned for his radio reports from London during the Blitz and his later television criticism of Senator Joseph McCarthy. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of broadcast journalism. He died of lung cancer at his home in New York on 27 April 1965.