Harold Burson

World War II was brought home to most Americans by journalists writing in major newspapers and magazines and radio correspondents, many of whom would later become the first stars of television news. Today, complaints are sometimes heard about the brevity of news stories; a typical report on the evening news will be only a minute or two. Harold Burson was given fifteen minutes a night just to report on the trial for the military's American Forces Network, but he quickly realized how boring it would become when the day to day events and testimony became repetitious. Burson ultimately incorporated interviews to liven up the broadcasts of the daily events. In this excerpt of an interview with Burson, he describes what life was like for correspondents covering the trial and his impressions of the city of Nuremberg, the lawyers...