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Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.

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What difference at this point does it make?

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You know, And we return to our American stories.

Up next, the story of a broadcast legend, Edward R. Murrow, and how he took on one of the most powerful men in America

during the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy. Here to tell the story is Kirk Higgins,

the Senior Director of Content at the Bill of Rights Institute. You can find their great curriculum

on American history at mybri.org.

That's mybri.org.

Let's get into the story.

If there were no communists in our government, why did we delay for 18 months, delay our research on the hydrogen bombs?

Let us not assassinate this lad for the premature.

But you have done it.

Have you no sense of decency, sir?

It was the evening of March 9, 1954, and veteran journalist Edward R. Murrow was about to make the most consequential television broadcast of his career.

Murrow had served as a war correspondent covering the bombings of London and Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

But that evening, Murrow was engaging in a different type of battle.

Through his See It Now television program, Murrow would challenge one of the most powerful men in the United States.

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