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ing World War II. He worked in in
telligence, but spent the entire
time at Fort Sam Houston in San
Antonio.
He wanted to go to Europe and
write for a military magazine,
which he said marks the time he
fully realized his ambition to be a
journalist.
He jumped at the chance to re
port from Western Europe for the
Christian Science Monitor and the
New York Times, two of his early
writing assignments. In 1953 his
coverage caught the eye of Edward
R. Murrow, who asked Schorr to
join his CBS television news team.
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would mean to dry up
many future sources for
many future reporters. It
would mean betraying
myself my career and my
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Daniel Schorr
radio commentator
Schorr is the last member of that
team still active in the field.
Since then, he has literally been
in the middle of almost every ma
jor news event of the last half cen
tury.
And after all the stories and
scandals, Schorr said he knows it
can’t be a big coincidence that he
ends up being part of so many sto
ries, but he’s not sure why.
“Each time was a peculiar acci
dent,” he said. “That was quite
weird to me.”
He built his reputation on a
combination of accurate, vibrant
news coverage, a refusal to com
promise his principles and a desire
to bring the story to the mass audi
ence — even when it meant spend
ing a few hours with the KGB dur
ing the heart of the Cold War.
After the Khrushchev interview
ran, Schorr and his photographer
were taking some pictures of a
children’s department store in
Moscow for another story. KGB of
ficers arrested them for “filming
forbidden objects,” claiming they
were shooting KGB headquarters
on the other side of the square.
He didn’t spend any time in jail,
but Schorr said the event was the
KGB’s way of telling him that he
was in trouble and about to leave
the country.
“It’s the KGB signal that it’s go
ing to get worse,” he said.
Schorr also built his reputation
on his unwavering defense of the
First Amendment and freedom of
the press, a principle that brought
him one vote away from a convic
tion by the House Ethics Commit
tee for contempt of Congress.
He went to press with an exclu
sive, the final report of the House
committee investigating the CIA
and FBI after Watergate, given to
Daniel Schorr, senior news
analyst for National Public Ra
dio, will be the keynote speak
er at this year’s Convocation
ceremony at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday
in the EMU Ballroom. The
event is free and open to Uni
versity and community mem
bers.
The event is a celebration to
mark the start of the academic
year and faculty from all de
partments of the University
will attend.
Schorr, 84, will deliver a
speech titled “Forgive Us Our
Ptess Passes.” This will be his
first trip to the University.
Janet Fratella, director of the
University outreach project,
said every year the undergrad
uate and graduate councils
compile a list of 12 candidates
for the keynote speaker slot.
The final choice is made by
University President Dave
Frohnmayer and his executive
staff.
Jim Earl, English professor
and president of the University
Senate, first suggested Schorr
to the list of 12. Earl said he has
followed Schorr’s work for
years and has admired the hon
esty and integrity Schorr brings
to his news coverage.
“Schorr stands for the old
ideal of news and news and
not as entertainment,” he said.
Last year’s Convocation was
pushed back to February due to
Frohnmayer’s heart arrhyth
mia, which he suffered on Oct.
22. Gov. John Kitzhaber was
the keynote speaker in 1999.
him by an unnamed source.
CBS suspended him for the de
cision, and the ethics committee
threatened him with jail time if he
didn’t give up the source’s name.
Schorr vehemently refused and
told the committee, “To betray a
source would mean to dry up
many future sources for many fu
ture reporters. It would mean be
traying myself, my career and my
life.”
The committee voted five to six
against the contempt charge, and
CBS asked him to return. He de
cided to resign instead. Three
years later, Ted Turner asked him
to help start the Cable News Net
work — better known as CNN.
Now a news analyst for NPR,
Schorr said he thinks that, of all
the scandals he’s witnessed, the
Clinton impeachment hearing hurt
the country the most — even more
than Watergate.
He said Watergate had the po
tential to be very damaging, but
was stopped quickly enough that
Americans actually came out of
the scandal invigorated by the
process.
“The residue of mistrust goes
very deep now. We no longer auto
matically trust our leaders” after
the Clinton impeachment hear
ings, he said. “Maybe in 10 or 20
years we’ll look back and it will be
Watergate.”
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