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thceremony will feature a wide variety of performances including a return to the stage. and we lost glenn frey and david kenlamas of t year and two triangle artists contributing to that album. close behind is taylor swift with seven nominations. fayetteville j cole had three including best rap album. ll cool j st. our late news will air right after the show so we hope you tune in. >> can't wait to see it's a big one. north carolina has been home to people who went on to become legends and one of them was a news man. >> tonight we find our tar heel
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perhaps the greatest news man ever. >> eggbert roscoe was born in greens bureau. eggbert roscoe murrough. >> edward r murrough. >> edward r murrough was born in gill ford county in a community called polk head creek. >> he was born and named eggbert. >> by the time he got to college he. >> a little boy not even in school yet. he and his brothers used to sit on the porch and listen to one of their grandfathers talk about what it was like to serve in the civil war and you have to have a gift i think sometimes and i think that family had it. >> his family left greens bureau for washington state when he was only 5 but murrough always said he felt the tie of carolina in his heart.
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county folks and had grown up with a set of ethics and i think that certainly followed through and was exemplified by his life. >> we can deny our heritage and history but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. >> some people are entrancing in how they tell their stories. they make people want to listen. conscience and story telling and he's in london. >> air raid shelters. >> he reported by radio at the start of world world war ii. >> far away in the distance i can see the red angry snap of anti aircraft bursts against the steel blue sky. >> this war correspondence uniform. >> it was murroughs. >> one of the awards he was given. >> the pee body award. >> bad housing, flies, mosquitoes, dirty beds and matt recesses. >> not to be afraid of the truth.
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