The Howard K Smith Experience

The Howard K Smith Experience is an experiment conducted by Paul Fuzz in super heavy psychedelic funk rock. The Howard K Smith Experience is dedicated to the life & memory of legendary American television newsman Howard K Smith. A short biography followsHoward K. Smith, an outspoken, often controversial television newsman, developed a career that spanned the decades from his sober analytic foreign news reporting at CBS as one of "Murrow's Boys," to years as co-anchor and commentator on ABC Evening News. He was the last American correspondent to leave Berlin after WWII was declared, was named as a communist supporter in Red Channels, served as the moderator of the first Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate, quit CBS after they cut the Edmund Burke "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" quote from his "Who Speaks For Birmingham" pro-civil rights ..ary, spent the late 60s covering seldom reported elements of the Vietnam War such as the experiences of African-American soilders... and, despite a closeness to the Nixon White House & support for the Vietnam War which had some dub him Howard K Agnew, when evidence grew of Nixon's involvement in the Watergate scandal, Smith was the first major TV commentator to call for his resignation.Needless to say, he was one of the last of a breed of TV newsmen who saw their role as not merely reporting the news but analyzing and commenting on it passionately.-edited from Albert Auster