- In 1967, Pepsi Cola sponsored "The Joan Murray" radio series, which was produced and nationally syndicated in the U.S. by Hartwest Productions, Inc.
- The first, and only, African-American woman to ever sit on the panel for the classic CBS program What's My Line? (1950).
- Featured in the October 1966 Ebony magazine article about black women who were breaking into television reporting.
- Daughter of Amanda Pearl Murray, and Isaish Murray.
- Survived by her sister, Rythma Jane, and her nephew, Ray Wall, she predeceased by her twin sister, June.
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