As a correspondent for CBS, WIlliam Shirer had covered the rise of Hitler, the war itself, the founding of the U.N., and the Nuremberg trials. With a highly rated weekly radio show of his own, author of the bestseller Berlin Diary, Shirer had become one of the country's best-known journalists. It was a shock, therefore, when his boss and close friend, Edward R. Murrow, fired him. Strangely, no offers were forth-coming from NBC or ABC. A whispering campaign about Shirer's leftist leanings had begun, and except for a brief tenure at Mutual Broadcasting, he was blacklisted. Shirer's account provides one of the most graphic histories of the McCarthy period.

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