In March 1954, Edward R. Murrow and a team of CBS News journalists sat in a dark screening room. The mood was tense.

They watched an almost-final cut of an upcoming episode of their show, "See It Now," that would take direct aim at Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who had whipped up anti-communist hysteria in America.

The staff was nervous to put it on the air.

Murrow told them, "The terror is right here in this room. No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices."

On March 9, 1954, Murrow and his team made history. In the final monologue of their broadcast, Murrow spoke directly to camera and said these now-famous words.

"We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our own history and our doctrine

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