page_title: December 1943
section_title: December 3, 1943 (Friday)
hierarchical_section_title: December 1943 / December 3, 1943 (Friday)
caption_attribution_description: English: at the US Information Agency 1961
context_page_description: The following events occurred in December 1943:
context_section_description: Edward R. Murrow delivered his classic "Orchestrated Hell" broadcast over CBS Radio, describing a nighttime bombing raid on Berlin, by 619 Squadron, RAF, based at RAF Woodhall Spa  The night before, Murrow had been allowed to fly on board a 619 Sqn Avro Lancaster, codenamed "D for Dog", during the raid.  Toward the close of his report, Murrow commented "Men die in the sky while others are roasted alive in their cellars.  Berlin last night wasn't a pretty sight.  In about 35 minutes it was hit with about three times the amount of stuff that ever came down on London in a night-long blitz."
  On the Belorussian front, Soviet forces captured Dovsk north of Gomel and moved towards Rogachev.
  Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis convened a meeting between National League and American League team owners, and publishers from eight African-American newspapers, at the Hotel Roosevelt in New York, to discuss the prospects of allowing black players to compete for jobs in the all-white "Organized Baseball".  Three press representatives, John Sengstacke of the Chicago Defender, Ira F. Lewis of the Pittsburgh Courier, and Howard Murphy of the Baltimore Afro-American were allowed to address the owners, and asked them to admit black players.  Landis declared at the end, "Each club is entirely free to employ Negro players to any and all extent it pleases," but added that it would be "solely for each club's decision", rather than a league-wide mandate.
caption: Murrow
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