Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: Edward Roscoe Murrow , KBE ( born Egbert Roscoe Murrow ; April 25 , 1908 -- April 27 , 1965 ) was an American broadcast journalist .
Simplified: Edward R. `` Ed '' Murrow ( April 25 1908 -- April 27 1965 ) was an American journalist and television and radio figure .