...This chapter discusses the censorship controversy in the Public Relations Division (PRD) of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), noting the plans to continue military censorship as long as SHAEF remained operational. The chapter points out how Ed Kennedy's surrender...

...This book recounts the intense drama surrounding the German surrender at the end of World War II and the veteran Associated Press journalist Edward Kennedy's controversial scoop. On May 7, 1945, Kennedy bypassed military censorship to be the first to break the news of the Nazi surrender executed...