{"id":28531,"date":"2013-10-14T05:51:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T09:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=28531"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:50:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:50:53","slug":"person-to-person-comes-for-a-visitin-1956-edward-r-murrows-eyes-and-ea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=28531","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Person To Person&#8217; Comes For A Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1956, Edward R. Murrow\u2019s \u201ceyes and ears\u201d visited Hal March on <em>Person to Person<\/em>, then one of CBS\u2019s most prestigious and widely watched programs. March was at the height of his fame as host of the smash\u2011hit quiz show <em>The $64,000 Question<\/em>, a ratings powerhouse for the network.<\/p>\n<p>Audiences already knew him from his earlier work on <em>The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show<\/em> and <em>My Friend Irma<\/em>, but <em>Person to Person<\/em> placed him in the elite company of cultural figures spotlighted by Murrow.<\/p>\n<p>Although the later quiz\u2011show rigging scandals centered on <em>Twenty One<\/em> and <em>Dotto<\/em>, the fallout swept across the entire genre. By 1958, congressional scrutiny and public distrust had grown so intense that most of television\u2019s big\u2011money quiz shows disappeared from the air, abruptly ending the brief but explosive era that had made March a household name.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/582043065166580\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Person-To-Person-Comes-For-A-Visit-In-1956-Edward-R.-Murrows-eyes-and-ea\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/582043075166579\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1956, Edward R. Murrow\u2019s \u201ceyes and ears\u201d visited Hal March on Person to Person, then one of CBS\u2019s most prestigious and widely watched programs. March was at the height of his fame as host of the smash\u2011hit quiz show The $64,000 Question, a ratings powerhouse for the network. Audiences already knew him from his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[783,1062,720,787,806],"class_list":["post-28531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cbs","tag-george-burns-and-gracie-allen-show","tag-host","tag-net","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81273,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531\/revisions\/81273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}