This episode features an interview with Ella Torrey, former Public Information Officer to 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!
Ella receiving the Human Rights Hero Award during the Youth for Human Rights Summit at the United Nations
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