[BC] Ed Murrow movie

[Chuck Lakaytis]

I have always wondered why "Tail Gunner Joe" had any success at all.  He
came out of WWII, claiming to be a decorated tail gunner.  Two reporters at
a Wisconsin paper, I think in Milwaukee, showed that not to be the truth and
wrote a big story about that.  But he still went on his merry way.

One of the reasons we had such difficulty trying to figure out Chinese
intentions in the winter of 1950 was that all of the China Experts had been
driven out of the State Department.  Men such as John Stewert Service were
driven out of public life.  When he tried to find a job the FBI would show
up at prospective employers and ask them if they knew about his background.

Years later, when Nixon went to China he invited Service along on the trip!
Sort of a belated recognition of his knowledge.

And Service became a sort of self taught engineer.  He found work in
industry and was the inventor of the Service Steam Water Trap, a device that
separates water from steam.

Historian by love, Engineer to buy groceries.

Chuck Lakaytis
Director of Engineering
Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Anchorage, Alaska
907 277 6300
907 310 4339 (cell)


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Douglas B. Pritchett
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 8:29 AM
To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List
Subject: Re: [BC] Ed Murrow movie

While Joe McCarthy's original goal can be debated, his techniques and 
politics of personal destruction can not. He might have had good 
intentions at the start, but when he realized his "power" he sought only 
to advance his career at the expense of some innocents.
Murrow exposed his methods.

-- 
Douglas B. Pritchett
Fort Wayne, IN
dpritchett1 at comcast.net


cldube wrote:

> I'm really looking forward to seeing that.
>
> Especially since within the last year I've heard some people (not 
> here) trying to defend the actions of McCarthy- saying that he had it 
> right all along. I know some people will favor the underdog in 
> history, but this is insane. The mindset that McCarthy embodied ruined 
> so many people's lives and was perhaps the most un-American movement 
> of the 20th century. Back in the 50's, a good friend of mine showed up 
> for work one day and found her boss had cleared out his desk and 
> disappeared. No one ever knew what became of him or his family. Is 
> this something that should happen to a law abiding citizen in the 
> United States? Some people still think so.




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