CBS debuted “Harvest of Shame” the day after Thanksgiving 1960, spotlighting the living conditions of migrant agricultural workers in America. Respected journalist Edward R. Murrow followed farmworker families along the U.S. eastern seaboard, interviewing parents, teachers, and doctors about the scope and impact of childhood malnutrition and starvation in the farm camps. While the film was intentionally designed to evoke shock in its American audience and galvanize action, Murrow insisted that it not be broadcast globally so that it would not be used as Soviet propaganda during a moment of renewed Cold War tensions.