May 04 2020 13 mins 1
This episode features an interview with Ella Torrey, former Public Information Officer to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, US Mission to the United Nations. On December 10th, 1948, Ella Torrey was a young reporter for the Chicago Tribune living in Paris, France and was one of the journalists present at the United Nations' General Assembly meeting the night the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. Listen to Ella describe what it was like to be in the room on that historic night and then just a few years later, how it was to work alongside Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
