Editing Edward R. Murrow (section)

==Early life==
Murrow was born Egbert Roscoe Murrow at Polecat Creek, near [[Greensboro, North Carolina|Greensboro]],<ref name=Baker>Baker, Anne Pimlott (2004), [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47830 "Murrow, Edward Roscoe (1908–1965)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, accessed December 7, 2010</ref> in [[Guilford County, North Carolina]], to Roscoe Conklin Murrow and Ethel F. (née Lamb) Murrow. His parents were [[Quakers]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/01/28/famous.quakers/ |title= What Richard Nixon and James Dean had in common |access-date=January 31, 2008 |last=Hattikudur |first=Mangesh |date=January 28, 2008 |publisher=CNN}}</ref> He was the youngest of four brothers and was a "mixture of Scottish, Irish, English and German" descent.<ref>{{cite news |title=Edward R. Murrow, Broadcaster And Ex-Chief of U.S.I.A., Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/04/28/archives/edward-r-murrow-broadcaster-and-exchief-of-usia-dies-war-reporter.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 28, 1965|access-date=August 10, 2016}}</ref> The firstborn, Roscoe Jr., lived only a few hours. Lacey Van Buren was four years old and Dewey Joshua was two years old when Murrow was born.<ref name="Edward R 2004">Edwards, B. 2004, ''Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism''.</ref> His home was a log cabin without electricity or plumbing, on a farm bringing in only a few hundred dollars a year from corn and hay.

When Murrow was six years old, his family moved across the country to [[Skagit County, Washington|Skagit County]] in [[western Washington]], to [[Homestead principle|homestead]] near [[Blanchard, Washington|Blanchard]], {{convert|30|mi|-1}} south of the [[Canada–United States border]]. He attended high school in nearby [[Edison, Washington|Edison]], and was president of the student body in his senior year and excelled on the debate team. He was also a member of the basketball team which won the Skagit County championship.

After graduation from high school in 1926, Murrow enrolled at [[Washington State University|Washington State College]] (now Washington State University) across the state in [[Pullman, Washington|Pullman]], and eventually majored in speech. A member of [[Kappa Sigma]] [[Fraternities and sororities|fraternity]], he was also active in college politics. By his teen years, Murrow went by the nickname "Ed" and during his second year of college, he changed his name from Egbert to Edward. In 1929, while attending the annual convention of the [[National Student Federation of America]], Murrow gave a speech urging college students to become more interested in national and world affairs; this led to his election as president of the federation. After earning his bachelor's degree in 1930, he moved back east to New York.

Murrow was assistant director of the [[Institute of International Education]] from 1932 to 1935 and served as assistant secretary of the [[Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars]], which helped prominent German scholars who had been dismissed from academic positions. He married [[Janet Huntington Brewster]] on March 12, 1935. Their son, Charles Casey Murrow, was born in the west of London on November 6, 1945.