See It Now (CBS) - 1952-11-30
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[0:36] Marcia it now with Edward R. Murrow
[0:40] which originates in studio 41 in New
[0:43] York City.
[0:58] Alcoa, Aluminum Company of America, in
[1:02] cooperation with CBS Television,
[1:04] presents the distinguished reporter and
[1:06] news analyst Edward R. Murrow in See It
[1:11] Now, a document for television based on
[1:14] the week's news and told through the
[1:16] actual voices and faces that made the
[1:18] news. Edited and produced by Mr. Murrow
[1:22] and Fred W. Friendly.
[1:24] A public service of Aluminum Company of
[1:27] America, the nation's leading producer
[1:30] of aluminum.
[1:32] Now speaking to you from the actual
[1:34] control room of studio 41 is the editor
[1:37] of See It Now, Edward R. Murrow.
[1:40] Good evening. We are 10 years late with
[1:43] this story.
[1:44] But this week our cameras were permitted
[1:46] to visit what might be called the
[1:47] birthplace of the atomic age.
[1:50] It was a most unusual cradle. The event
[1:53] occurred on December 2nd, 1942.
[1:57] And the cradle was under the stadium at
[1:59] a football field.
[2:02] The rest of our lives will be spent
[2:04] under the combined threat and promise of
[2:07] nuclear energy.
[2:09] Our nation was the first
[2:11] to get the atomic bomb, but it was not
[2:14] an all American production
[2:16] as we shall shortly see.
[2:21] And this is Stagg Field, Ellis Avenue on
[2:25] Chicago's South Side.
[2:28] Although that parapet looks more as if
[2:29] the catapult or the crossbow was
[2:31] invented here, it was here that the
[2:34] atomic age tiptoed in on December 2,
[2:37] 1942.
[2:39] 10 years ago today to the casual
[2:41] observer, it was an abandoned relic
[2:43] except for a faculty squash court below
[2:46] the stand.
[2:50] This is where the University of Chicago
[2:51] won Big Ten foot