Edward Paddock Morgan(June 23, 1910 – January 27, 1993) was an Americanjournalistand writer who reported for newspapers, radio, and television media services includingABC,CBSnetworks, and thePublic Broadcasting Service(PBS).
A native ofWalla Walla, Washington,Morgan began his news career withThe Seattle Starin 1932. He worked in print journalism for two decades, forUnited Press International,The Chicago Daily News,andCollier's Weeklybefore joining CBS as a radio and TV reporter.
From 1955 to 1967, Morgan broadcast an evening radio program of news and commentary, "Edward P. Morgan and the News," which won him theGeorge Foster Peabody Awardin 1956.
In 1956, Morgan was based inNew York Cityand working for theABC RadioNetwork. He broadcast a professional news report of the collision of the ocean linersSSAndrea DoriaandMSStockholmoff theMassachusettscoast, not telling listeners that his 14-year-old daughter had been aboard theAndrea Doriaand was believed to have been killed.[1]
His daughter,Linda Morgan,was discovered alive the next day, having been catapulted to a deck of theStockholmwhen its bow knifed into her cabin. Dubbed by media the "miracle girl", she had received only a broken arm. Morgan then made another broadcast emotionally describing the difference between reporting the news about strangers and how different it was with his own loved ones involved.[citation needed]
In 1960 Morgan received theAlfred I. duPont Award.[2]
Morgan moved to ABC News in the early 1960s where, withHoward K. Smith,he anchored portions of ABC's coverage of theassassination of President John F. Kennedyand the 1964 political conventions.[3]He retired as an ABC commentator andNewsday Syndicatecolumnist in 1975. Edward P. Morgan died January 27, 1993, at his home inMcLean,Fairfax County,Virginia.
His first marriage in 1937 was to Jane Stolle. Their daughter Linda was born in 1942. In 1945, the marriage dissolved. He married his second wife Katherine Sage Sohier (née Burden) on July 18, 1960. Sohier had two daughters from her first marriage to Walter Denegre Sohier.
References
edit- ^Lambert, Bruce (January 29, 1993)."Edward P. Morgan, 82, Anchor And Reporter for TV and Radio".New York Times.
- ^All duPont–Columbia Award WinnersArchivedAugust 14, 2012, at theWayback Machine,Columbia Journalism School.Retrieved 2013-08-06.
- ^Matusow, Barbara (1983).The Evening Stars: The Making of the Network News Anchor.Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. p.142.ISBN9780395339688.