George Clooney & Me

I will be attending a preview screening of George Clooney’s new movie, Good Night, and Good Luck, this coming Saturday. The movie revolves around the confrontation between newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy. To prepare for the screening, I’m doing research, and will update this post with URLs as I find interesting and/or pertinent information online.

• Edward R. Murrow and the Time of His Time by Joseph Wershba. According to the website, Mr. Wershba was a war correspondent, a “Murrow boy,” and producer of 60 Minutes from 1968-1988.
• Smackdown: Edward R. Murrow v. Joseph McCarthy by Paul Schmelzer of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN
• Biography of Joseph McCarthy by staff of Appleton Public Library in Appleton, WI
• [New]Campus Progress attends a special screening of the movie hosted by the Center for American Progress.
• [New]George Clooney’s Politics on Clooney Network.
• [New]Clooney brings politics to Venice, screening his movie at the Venice Film Festival
• [New]LA Times article on Clooney and the movie
• [New]Censure of Senator McCarthy on the State Department website
• [New]Eisenhower and McCarthy on the PBS website
• [New]The Real McCarthy Record at The New American website