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NPR’S FIRST NEWS PROGRAM ON THIS DAY IN 1971

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Bob Edwards hosting All Things Considered circa 1974.

All Things Considered (ATC) is the flagship news program on the broadcast
network
National Public Radio (NPR). It was the first news program on NPR,
and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets.

NPR is a privately- and publicly-funded non-profit media organization that
serves a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. It replaced
the National Educational Radio Network on February 26, 1970.

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POPULAR SINGER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1903

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       Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)

Bing Crosby was one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, 
with over half a billion records in circulation. He won an
Academy Award for
Best Actor
for his role as Father Chuck O’Malley in the 1944 motion picture
Going My Way
, and was nominated for his reprise of the role in The Bells of
St. Mary’s
the next year, becoming the first of four actors to be nominated
twice for playing the same character. In 1963, Crosby received the first
Grammy Global Achievement Award. 

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Bing Crosby and co-star Barry Fitzgerald with their Oscars from
Going My Way.

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Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney (1960 – 62)

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NOVELTY SINGLE BY STEVE ALLEN

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Steve Allen was still doing the Tonight Show on NBC-TV three nights a
week, alternating with Ernie Kovacs, when this record was made in late
1957.The voice of the musician is actually record producer Bob Thiele
who was running Coral Records for parent Decca at the time.
  
 

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Bob Thiele

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PIONEER JOURNALIST BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1908

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    Edward Roscoe Murrow ( April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965)

   

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CLASSIC RADIO PROGRAM

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The radio series Gunsmoke aired from April 26, 1952 until June 18, 1961, on
the CBS
radio network..

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William Conrad (right) chats with producer Norman MacDonnell,
who with John Meston, created Gunsmoke. He produced the
radio version and eight years of the TV version.

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Parley Baer ("Chester"), Georgia Ellis ("Miss Kitty") and Howard
MacNear ("Doc Adams")

Air date: September 21, 1958

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