Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

...sightseers head in the direction of California's San Fernando Valley.
Let's do our first show about the downfall of television.
- Hello, Jimmy. - Fred, congratulations! - Thank you.
...and the cleverest of the jackal pack which is always found at the throat...
...can deny that Congressional committees are useful.
I am today much more interested...
...evil of it!
And if I did, I beg your pardon.
This instrument can teach.
However, counsel will question you about your own activities also.
[... has continued to pioneer new uses for this vital metal.]
2-and-a-half minutes on the end piece.
...and the home Liberace has built for himself and his mother.
...but I don't believe in getting married just for the sake of getting married.
I was never a member of the IWW, never applied for membership.
...other than a few million people would have received a little illumination...
He's gonna bet that a Senator trumps a newsman.
We need to know, for the good of the piece...
- We got nothing. - I don't know. - Nothing.
I don't think it's what either of us wants.
- Sure we're gonna miss you around here. - I'll pack my things.
...the ACLU as subversive, nor does the FBI...
Edward R. Murrow's television program on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy...
...to bring them up here and cross-examine them...
- How does a Scotch sound? - Scotch sounds good.
Radulovich... Guys! Radulovich has been reinstated.
You're getting good at this!
...last evening, when his explosively one-sided propaganda...
What happens to your children...
Why don't you just fire me, Bill?
We've got to let that guy have it.
Send the New York Times a bottle of Scotch.
...stating that Annie Lee Moss was a member, a dues-paying member...
Next week, we'll take you to Beverly Hills, California...
Now back to Ed Murrow.
That was Mr. Murrow's and television's triumph...
You can go back to the publisher...
99% of the time he's wrong about those he's marked as Communists.
We're gonna go with the story, because the terror is in this room.
Isn't it?
I didn't think I was.
We're having better luck with Mr. Benjamin Franklin...
- This absolutely means something. - Absolutely. This is the start of...
...on this particular program.
...man can walk upright.
Pays the bills. How are you, Don?
Is he being brought before the Committee?
Two attractive people alone in the copy room!
Rob a bank. Mug an old lady. Do something.
64,000 Dollar Question brings in over 80,000 in sponsors...
We have some footage of the empty chair.
We're putting out a press release...
- Nobody worth their salt reads him. - You read him.
- It's simply a loyalty oath. - To CBS? - And to America.
...towards those ends.
I love Jack Gould!
- Home of a friend. - No, it's not an obit piece.
- I believe he's waiting for you. - Just call him! - Fine.
But unless we get up off our fat surpluses...
...to take charge of the investigation of Communist infiltration...
- What about O'Brian? - Uh, the same.
Have you ever subscribed to The Daily Worker?
- We're not going at McCarthy. - You're starting the goddamn fire.
May we get your full name for the record, please?
- Hey, your ring! - Uh!
I didn't know who to give this information to, Paley or Murrow.
- You ever spend any time in Detroit, Fred? - Not recently.
I think no comment.
And we read the transcript. We've not been allowed to see the footage.
...you should be removed from any command.
...was an exciting and provocative examination of the man and his methods.
He jumped beautifully, but he neglected to check first...
Does he get the right to face his accuser?
There's a story here in the Detroit News, Dexter, Michigan.
Fred.
What?
...to say to you that Mr. Edward R. Murrow...
...because neither we, nor you, nor they, nor the lawyers...
- I certainly will. - Thanks a lot.
How much are the ads?
And if that be true, there are an awful lot of Communists in the USA.
...President Eisenhower, and General MacArthur.
Good Night, and Good Luck
...edited with deviously clever selectivity from McCarthy's march...
- If we can afford him! - Stanton's got a public opinion...
It's just a thought.