See It Now (CBS) - 1954-06-08

Name: See It Now (CBS) - 1954-06-08
Uploaded: 2023-08-20
Duration: 1790 s
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Uploaded: 2023-08-20

Duration: PT1790S

Read a transcript preview of “See It Now (CBS) - 1954-06-08” from malgent, uploaded on 2023-08-20.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:02] foreign

[0:31] which originates in Studio 41 in New

[0:34] York City

[0:46] [Applause]

[0:48] Alcoa Aluminum Company of America in

[0:52] cooperation with CBS Television presents

[0:55] the distinguished reporter and news

[0:57] analyst Edward R Murrow in see it now

[1:02] edited and produced by Mr Merle and Fred

[1:05] w friendly

[1:07] a weekly presentation of aluminum

[1:09] Company of America the nation's leading

[1:12] producer of aluminum

[1:14] now speaking to you from the control

[1:16] room of Studio 41 is the editor of see

[1:19] it now Edward R murrows good evening

[1:22] tonight we turn our eyes away from

[1:25] Washington being mindful that all the

[1:27] politicians were sent there by the

[1:29] people who are still sovereign so

[1:31] tonight we examine in the small mirror

[1:34] two developments on the American

[1:36] political scene one in Maine the other

[1:38] in California

[1:40] we do not contend that these situations

[1:42] are typical merely that they happen on

[1:46] June 1st 1950 the then Junior senator

[1:50] from the state of Maine the first woman

[1:52] ever elected to the Senate Margaret

[1:54] Chase Smith arose on the senate floor

[1:56] and read what has come to be known as

[1:59] her Declaration of conscience

[2:01] we are Republicans he said but we're

[2:03] first Americans certain elements of the

[2:06] Republican Party have materially added

[2:09] to the confusion in the hopes of riding

[2:11] our party to Victory through the selfish

[2:14] political exploitation of fear bigotry

[2:17] ignorance and intolerance

[2:21] there were those who said that Mrs Smith

[2:23] would pay the price during the 1954

[2:26] election in Maine now it is 1954 and on

[2:31] June 21 the senator will know what kind

[2:33] of a price she must pay for her speec