Breaking Walls
Breaking Walls
James Scully
BW - EP152—003: D-Day's 80th Anniversary—Sunrise Reports in New York City
32 minutes Posted May 23, 2024 at 12:34 pm.
AM. I hear American troops have turned the tide of battle at the Omaha landing point, with warships backing them up at sea.
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As part of my job I’ve been sent by CBS to Union Square. I decided to stop by my high school alma mater, I’m at the Church of St. Francis Xavier on sixteenth street. They’re having a sunrise mass filled with prayer for our soldiers and other war workers. The people are stoic. Now isn’t the time to lose ourselves in emotion.
Sunrise is at
Give a listen to the CBS broadcast. David Anderson, Arthur Mann, Paul White, and Edward R. Murrow have reports from London. Quentin Reynolds will describe Eisenhower’s speech to occupied Europe, while Bill Henry and Joe McCaffrey report from Washington.