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Murrow<\/a>, Robert Trout, Douglas Edwards, Charles Osgood, Dan Rather and many other familiar and trusted voices over its decades in operation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been around for a long time. 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As &#8220;CBS Sunday Morning&#8221; recently recounted, he was in Europe to recruit voices for radio, but after observing how dangerous Hitler was, he sent back a broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is Edward Murrow speaking from Vienna. It&#8217;s now nearly 2:30 in the morning, and Herr Hitler has not yet arrived. No one seems to know just when he will get here. But most people expect him sometime after 10 o&#8217;clock tomorrow morning,&#8221; Murrow said in that report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He later provided rooftop reports in London during the Blitz and from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/from-the-archives-edward-r-murrow-buchenwald-april-15-1945\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Buchenwald concentration camp<\/a>\u00a0after the Germans had fled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not searching for adjectives to make this sound dramatic,&#8221; he said in one wartime report. &#8220;I&#8217;m just telling you what I&#8217;ve seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The legendary broadcaster was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>CBS program host and correspondent Allison Keyes covered the news from Lower Manhattan on 9\/11.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People needed to know what was going on that day,&#8221; <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cbs-news-radio-a-beacon-of-broadcast-journalism-signs-off\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Keyes said<\/a><\/span>, &#8220;in real time, no filter, no politics. 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