CECIL BROWN

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CECIL BROWN

• Cecil Brown, 1941

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THE PERFECT JOB FOR CECIL

• Writes articles in High School about canoe trip
• Writes articles about sailing to South America
• 1929 Travels to the Mediterranean
• Reports for a number of papers and the United
  Press
• Travels to Europe
• 1940 Hired by Edward R. Murrow at CBS as a war
  correspondent in Italy

• Edward R. Murrow
• (Picture taken from Kaelin
  website)

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THE MURROW BOYS

• Front Row Bill Downs, Charles Collingwood, Gene
  Ryder, Charles Shaw
• Back Row Larry LeSueur, Ed Murrow, Richard C.
  Hottelet, Bill Shadel
• Inventors of Broadcast Journalism
• Swashbucklers, Adventurers, and Heroes
• This prestigious list of Murrow Boys has been
  debatable over time

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CECIL KICKED AROUND

• Censored in Italy
• Captured in Belgrade
• Censored in North Africa

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DECEMBER 8, 1941 IN SINGAPORE

• Singapore was attacked by Japanese pilots
• Singapore was a hotbed of news
• To leave would be costly, but destiny came calling

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THE PRINCE OF WALES

• The Prince of Wales The greatest of Britains
  Royal Navy sent to Singapore to impress and
  intimidate Japan
• The Repulse Sidekick battle cruiser with a less
  fearing reputation
• Cecils left riding on The Repulse

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THE DEATH OF A PRINCE ANDTHE REPULSE

• Cecil warns British officers of overconfidence

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CECILS STYLE IN SUEZ TO SINGAPORE

• The overwhelming dogmatic conviction
• That galvanizes me, and I stand up in the
  porthole and jump
• I watch the Prince of Wales go down, a big, dark
  thing sliding into nothingness

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SINGAPORE SICK OF CECIL

• Cecil Brown after the sinking of The Repulse

• No longer welcome in Singapore
• Trouble brewing with Cecil back home at CBS
• Fame and Fortune back home as well

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CECIL QUITS

• Short-lived fame
• Self-entitled Prima donna
• Paul White is angry
• Johns-Manville is angry
• September 2, 1943, Cecil Brown quits CBS

• Cecils Book, Suez to Singapore

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WORKS CITED

• Brown, Cecil. Suez to Singapore. New York
  Random House, 1942.
• Cloud, Stanley and Lynne Olson. The Murrow Boys.
  New York Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.
• Concise World Atlas. Italy Hammond World Atlas
  Corporation, 2000.
• Folkerts, Jean and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr. Voices
  of a Nation A History of Mass Media in the
  United States. Fourth Edition. Boston Allyn
  Bacon, 2002.
• International Naval Research Organization.
  (1998). The Loss of Repulse and Prince of Wales
  A Participant's Account by A.E. Jacobs.
  Retrieved May 6, 2002 from http//www.warship.org/
  no11986.htm.
• Kaelin, J.C., Jr. (1995-1999).
  EarthStation1.com The Historical Sound Image
  Archive. Retrieved May 6, 2002 from
  http//www.earthstation1.com/
• Edward_R._Murrow_WWII_Pictures.html.