NEWS MEMORIES "Pearl Harbor Attack"

 

430PM (EST) December 7, 1941 NBC Radio coverage of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Island of Oahu, Hawaii. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday, December 7, 1941. The United States was a neutral country at the time; the attack led to its formal entry into World War II the next day. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI and as Operation Z during its planning.

NEWS MEMORIES "Four Dark Days In November"

 

President John F. Kennedy death, Four Dark Days In November, by staff of  WQMR, WGAY-FM, An LP record of radio air check audio surrounding the coverage of the assassination of President John F Kennedy. The album was a re-creation taken from actual recordings broadcast that four day period over WQMR and WGAY-FM radio in Washington DC.

"FOUR DARK DAYS IN NOVEMBER" 
A recorded compilation of news scripts and audio actualities prepared for a nonprofit LP record of audio surrounding the coverage of the assassination of President John F Kennedy. The album was a re-creation taken from actual recordings broadcast that four day period, beginning November 22, 1963, and broadcast over WQMR and WGAY-FM radio in Washington DC. Many of the narratives were re-recorded and the music heard at the beginning of track one was taken from a needle drop transcription and not actually broadcast. The album was produced by WQMR WGAY-FM Manager, Ed Winton, who narrated the record. Proceeds for consumer acquisition of the record were given to the family of slain Dallas police officer J. D. Tippett.

NBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "King George VI"

 

NBC coverage of the visit to The United States by King George VI of England. June 11, 1939. With notable English celebrities of the era.

HEAR IT NOW "The Kefauver Crime Hearings"

 

Episode 14 aired on March 16, 1951. Edward R. Murrow's summary of the news of the week. In May 1950, a little-known U.S. Senator named Estes Kefauver, a 47 year-old Democrat from Tennessee, began a series of investigative hearings on organized crime. These formal hearings of the U.S. Senate — which came to be known as the “Kefauver Hearings” — were unique in the history of politics, also heralding the early power of television, as they became the first congressional hearings to draw a large national audience. HEARINGS

Edward R. Murrow "March 1954"

 

Fifteen minute CBS Radio newscast from March of 1954 reported by Edward R. Murrow.

NEWS MEMORIES "H V Kaltenborn"

 

Excerpt from an NBC Radio broadcast on December 7, 1941. Hans von Kaltenborn (July 9, 1878 – June 14, 1965), generally known as H. V. Kaltenborn, was an American radio commentator. He was heard regularly on the radio for over 30 years, beginning with CBS in 1928 and NBC in 1940. He was known for his highly precise diction, his ability to ad-lib, and his depth of knowledge of world affairs. Kaltenborn had very specific views about radio's role in presenting the news. Later in life he wrote on the subject in many of his books. He was one of four journalists who portrayed themselves in the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still. Kaltenborn also appears as himself in the 1939 Frank Capra film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. WIKIPEDIA BIO

NEWS MEMORIES "CBS News WWII 1938"

 NEWS MEMORIES "CBS News WWII 1938" Robert Trout reports for CBS News the events from Europe on September 23, 1938. Including comments from Edward R. Murrow and Hans von Kaltenborn (July 9, 1878 – June 14, 1965), generally known as H. V. Kaltenborn. (Photo) He was an American radio commentator heard regularly on the CBS and NBC radio networks for over 30 years, beginning with CBS in 1928. He was known for his highly precise diction, his ability to ad-lib, and his depth of knowledge of world affairs. WIKIPEDIA BIO

NEWS MEMORIES "Nazi Austrian Invasion"

ROBERT TROUT

 

A CBS Radio News special report. March 12, 1938. Robert Trout reports Nazis take Austria. Nineteen months would elapse from the day Hitler grabbed control of the German Army until the actual start of World War II. During those months, Hitler engaged in a kind of gangster diplomacy in which he bluffed, bullied, threatened, and lied to various European leaders in order to expand the borders of his Reich.

NEWS MEMORIES "CBS Radio News Archives"

EDWARD R. MURROW

 

\This episode has been published and can be heard everywhere podcasts are available. Edward R. Murrow hosts an historic montage of voices from history in the 20th century from the CBS radio network news archives.

ROBERT TROUT "CBS News of Europe"

 

September 19, 1939 Robert Trout, CBS News, broadcasting news from Europe including poor quality shortwave actuality from CBS newsman in London, Edward R. Murrow.

Robert Trout (born Robert Albert Blondheim; October 15, 1909 – November 14, 2000) was an American broadcast news reporter who worked on radio before and during World War II for CBS News. He was regarded by some as the "Iron Man of Radio" for his ability to ad lib while on the air, as well as for his stamina, composure, and elocution. Trout was born in Washington, D.C.; he added the Trout name early in his radio career. He entered broadcasting in 1931 as an announcer at WJSV, an independent station in Alexandria, Virginia, founded in the early 1920s by James S. Vance. In the summer of 1932 WJSV was acquired by CBS, bringing Trout into the CBS fold. (WJSV, formerlly WTOP, became WFED in Washington, D.C.) He was the man who used the on-air label "fireside chat" in reference to radio broadcasts of President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression and World War II. (Trout credited the genesis of the phrase to Harry Butcher, a CBS vice president in Washington). Trout was behind the microphone for many of broadcasting's firsts. He was the first to report on live congressional hearings from Capitol Hill, first to transmit from a flying airplane and, by some definitions, the first to broadcast a daily news program, creating the news anchorman role. It was Bob Trout in the mid-1930s who passed on to a then-new CBS executive, Edward R. Murrow, the value of addressing the radio audience intimately, as if the announcer was talking to one person. Trout played a key role in Murrow's development as a broadcaster, and the two would remain colleagues until Murrow departed the network in 1961, and friends until Murrow's death in 1965.

NEWS MEMORIES "March Of Time"

 

February 3, 1938 broadcast over NBC Radio. The March of Time was an American radio news documentary and dramatization series sponsored by Time Inc. (Life Magazine) and broadcast from 1931 to 1945. Created by broadcasting pioneer Fred Smith and Time magazine executive Roy E. Larsen, the program combined actual news events with reenactments. The "voice" of The March of Time was Westbrook Van Voorhis. (Photo)

NEWS "Edward R Murrow"

 CBS Radio shortwave relay from London. Murrow reporting news of Britain July 17, 1939.

NBC Recollections at 30 with Hans von Kaltenborn

 

A radio manufacturer named the Radio Corporation of America, which we know as RCA, began to broadcast its own programs on stations it had either started or purchased. In late 1926, RCA created a division of the company known as the National Broadcasting Company, or NBC. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15, 1926. To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the company, NBC created a series of shows called Recollection at 30. Using a vast number of archival recordings, Recollection at 30 would assemble some of these transcriptions into a 25-minute show. Some of these shows followed a theme, such as the shows The Crash of the Hindenburg, The Big Bands, and Abraham Lincoln. Others concentrated on popular radio programs, such as Truth or Consequences, and Lights Out. People were honored, like Judy Garland, H. V. Kaltenborn (photo), and Irving Berlin. Some of the ideas for the shows were solicited from listeners. The requests often included hearing some of the earliest recordings. To honor this, an entire broadcast was dedicated to June 11th, 1927, the day of the earliest recording NBC owned. This show included the return of Charles Lindberg, and had President Calvin Coolidgeâs presentation of the Distinguished Flying Cross award to Lindberg. NBC had transmitted this event live to 50 stations simultaneously -- the largest simultaneous transmission accomplished to that point. A one-hour audition show created May 15, 1956 was titled A Salute to Radio, and hosted by H. V. Kaltenborn. When the show was produced starting June 20, 1956, the announcer for most of the shows was Ed Herlihy. The show would run for a total of 45 episodes, with the final broadcast on May 1, 1957. Information for this synopsis was taken from Jay Hickerson's The Ultimate History of Network Radio Programming, and from Wikipedia.

NEWS "East Coast Blackout"

 

The northeast USA blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont in the United States. Over 30 million people and 80,000 square miles (207,000 km2) were left without electricity for up to 13 hours. WABC New York City audio extraction.

NEWS Reporting

 

Golden radio memories of news reporting hosted by Frank Knight. 1920's and 1930's. KDKA, Luck Lindy, Amos and Andy, Eddie Cantor, Billy Sunday, FDR, E C Hill, Hindenburg blimp crash with Herb Morrison.

NEWS Reports in old time radio

 

Old Time Radio NEWS Reporting in the 1930s. BBC, NBC. British monarchy, WWII, Submarine rescue, Hitler speech, Britian declares war and Beethoven symphony excerpt.