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- Title
- Hear It Now (Episode 20)
- Date
- 1951-04-27
- Description
- Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: In Korea, General Ridgeway briefs newsmen on Communist activity in North. Radio Free Europe begins broadcasting, sample of Hungarian broadcast on how to sneak across the Iron Curtain. Winston Churchill comments on the beef shortage in Britain. MacArthur furor continues. New York Times reporter on secret Pentagon files. Senator Richard Nixon on White House attempt to smear MacArthur.
- Series
- News programs -- Hear It Now
- Subject
- Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965; Friendly, Fred W.; MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964; Murrow, Edward R.
- Local Identifier
- HearItNow-020
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50178
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Hear It Now (Episode 22)
- Date
- 1951-05-11
- Description
- Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: MacArthur-Marshall Congressional testimony. General MacArthur speaks of his troops, on bombing of Yalu, Chinese Nationalist reinforcements, global consequences, defeatism, on going it alone, new power to launch attack, Truman Administration's Korean policy. Close-up: Moonshining U.S.A. Ed Murrow and his team go to the Blue Ridge Mountains for a look at moonshining. Includes voices of mountain men, Federal revenuers. Includes tapes of actual raid on a still.
- Series
- News programs -- Hear It Now
- Subject
- Blue Ridge Mountains; Distilling, Illicit; Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Friendly, Fred W.; MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964; Murrow, Edward R.
- Local Identifier
- HearItNow-022
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50179
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Hear It Now (Episode 23)
- Date
- 1951-05-18
- Description
- Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: The General MacArthur furor continues. President Harry Truman on mail about MacArthur controversy. Various reporters and Congressmen comment. Actuality of shelling in North Korea. University of Chicago dedicates atomic research lab. 90th birthday of pretzel. Close-Up: The Homecoming of Frank Stilo. Captain Stilo, a Korean veteran, comes home.
- Series
- News programs -- Hear It Now
- Subject
- Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Friendly, Fred W.; MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964; Murrow, Edward R.; Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
- Local Identifier
- HearItNow-023
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50180
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Hear It Now (Episode 24)
- Date
- 1951-05-25
- Description
- Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow.
- Series
- News programs -- Hear It Now
- Subject
- Interviewing on radio; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Friendly, Fred W.; Murrow, Edward R.
- Local Identifier
- HearItNow-024
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50181
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- H.V. Kaltenborn and The News
- Date
- 1941-12-07
- Description
- NBC Red Network. Kaltenborn offers first reports on attack, recounts what has happened during the past 50 minutes, attack on Peak Harbor, Manila, first eyewitness accounts come across the wires, services called upon to protect the United States, various targets of Japanese, first Honolulu report on wires, torpedoing of U.S. ships, Japanese preparation for attacks, foreign warship appears off Pearl Harbor.
- Series
- News programs
- Subject
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941; World War II
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Kaltenborn, H. V. (Hans), 1878-1965
- Local Identifier
- news-663
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17169
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Lux Radio Theatre: Miracle on 34th Street (Reel 1)
- Date
- 1953
- Description
- Stars Edmund Gwenn, Howard McNeir, Virginia Gregg, William Conrad, Parley Baer, Barney Phillips, Ted de Corsica, Jack Kruschen, Herb Butterfield.
- Series
- Entertainment programs -- Lux Radio Theatre
- Subject
- Lux Radio Theatre (Radio program)
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Gwenn, Edmund, 1875-1959
- Local Identifier
- lux-005
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50196
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Lux Radio Theatre: Miracle on 34th Street (Reel 2)
- Date
- 1953
- Description
- Conclusion. Stars Edmund Gwenn, Howard McNeir, Virginia Gregg, William Conrad, Parley Baer, Barney Phillips, Ted de Corsica, Jack Kruschen, Herb Butterfield.
- Series
- Entertainment programs -- Lux Radio Theatre
- Subject
- Lux Radio Theatre (Radio program)
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Gwenn, Edmund, 1875-1959
- Local Identifier
- lux-006
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50197
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Lux Radio Theatre: To Have and Have Not (Reel 1)
- Date
- 1946-10-14
- Description
- 12th anniversary program. Stars Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Tim Graham, Jack Kruschen and George Sorell. Host: William Keighly. Music by Louis Silvers. John Milton Kennedy, announcer. The time is 1940, during the Nazi reign of terror when France and her possessions fell under the heel of the Germans. The place: Martinique in the French West Indies. Bogart plays two-fisted Harry Morgan and he and his pal Eddie meet up with the beautiful Mary Browning (Bacall). They match wits with the Nazis on the island.
- Series
- Entertainment programs -- Lux Radio Theatre
- Subject
- Lux Radio Theatre (Radio program)
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Bogart, Humphrey, 1899-1957; Bacall, Lauren, 1924-
- Local Identifier
- lux-001
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50194
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Lux Radio Theatre: To Have and Have Not (Reel 2)
- Date
- 1946-10-14
- Description
- Conclusion. 12th anniversary program. Stars Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Tim Graham, Jack Kruschen and George Sorell. Host: William Keighly. Music by Louis Silvers. John Milton Kennedy, announcer. The time is 1940, during the Nazi reign of terror when France and her possessions fell under the heel of the Germans. The place: Martinique in the French West Indies. Bogart plays two-fisted Harry Morgan and he and his pal Eddie meet up with the beautiful Mary Browning (Bacall). They match wits with the Nazis on the island.
- Series
- Entertainment programs -- Lux Radio Theatre
- Subject
- Lux Radio Theatre (Radio program)
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Bogart, Humphrey, 1899-1957; Bacall, Lauren, 1924-
- Local Identifier
- lux-002
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50195
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Lux Radio Theatre: Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Reel 1)
- Date
- 1949-04-19
- Description
- Starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston.
- Series
- Entertainment programs -- Lux Radio Theatre
- Subject
- Lux Radio Theatre (Radio program)
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Bogart, Humphrey, 1899-1957; Huston, Walter, 1884-1950
- Local Identifier
- lux-003
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50192
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Lux Radio Theatre: Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Reel 2)
- Date
- 1949-04-19
- Description
- Conclusion. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston.
- Series
- Entertainment programs -- Lux Radio Theatre
- Subject
- Lux Radio Theatre (Radio program)
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Bogart, Humphrey, 1899-1957; Huston, Walter, 1884-1950
- Local Identifier
- lux-004
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50193
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- MacArthur Leaves Tokyo
- Date
- 1951-04-15
- Description
- Introduced and anchored by ABC Newsman Chet Huntley in San Francisco. Features PU's from Richard Rendell, Bill Herbert, Ray Falk, and Fred Sparks in Tokyo describing MacArthur's arrival and departure. Report from Hank Weaver in Honolulu about plans for MacArthur's arrival there, then Harry Harbor interviews the manager of the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco about plans for the visit. Bob Day speaks to several at the airport about security, etc. Program concludes with Huntley promoing ABC's coverage.
- Series
- News programs
- Subject
- Radio broadcasting -- United States; Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952
- Subject -- Personal Name
- MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964; Huntley, Chet, 1911-1974
- Local Identifier
- news-743
- Type
- Sound recordings
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/hickman:435
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Mary Margaret McBride (June 19, 1945)
- Date
- 1945-06-19
- Description
- Broadcast from the Marquee of the Astor Hotel, Times Square, New York. Vincent Connolly, announcer. Special guest is movie star Peggy Ann Gardner. Special parade pickups by Ben Grauer in the NBC Mobile Unit as General Eisenhower is welcomed to New York.
- Series
- Entertainment programs -- Mary Margaret McBride
- Subject
- Radio programs; Radio talk shows; Interviewing on radio
- Subject -- Personal Name
- McBride, Mary Margaret, 1899-
- Local Identifier
- mmcbride-001
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50201
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Mary Margaret McBride (September 1, 1948, Reel 1)
- Date
- 1948-09-01
- Description
- With Fannie Hurst and Vincent Connolly sitting in for Ms. McBride. Fannie and Vincent discuss New York City, summer vacations, a horrible boat trip, problems in New York, etc.
- Series
- Entertainment programs -- Mary Margaret McBride
- Subject
- Radio programs; Radio talk shows; Interviewing on radio
- Subject -- Personal Name
- McBride, Mary Margaret, 1899-; Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968
- Local Identifier
- mmcbride-002
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50202
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Mary Margaret McBride (September 1, 1948, Reel 2)
- Date
- 1948-09-01
- Description
- Conclusion. With Fannie Hurst and Vincent Connolly sitting in for Ms. McBride. Fannie and Vincent discuss New York City, summer vacations, a horrible boat trip, problems in New York, etc.
- Series
- Entertainment programs -- Mary Margaret McBride
- Subject
- Radio programs; Radio talk shows; Interviewing on radio
- Subject -- Personal Name
- McBride, Mary Margaret, 1899-; Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968
- Local Identifier
- mmcbride-003
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50203
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Meet the Press
- Date
- 1953
- Description
- NBC. Martha Roundtree, host with Burt Andrews of the New York Herald Tribune, May Craig of the Portland Press, Jack Bell of AP and permanent member Lawrence Spivak. Guest is Senator Joseph McCarthy. Program examines McCarthy and his anti-communist activities and his investigations into stockpiling, etc.
- Series
- News programs
- Subject
- Talk shows
- Subject -- Personal Name
- McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957
- Local Identifier
- news-759
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17177
- Rights statement
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- Title
- NBC Covers V-J Day (2:30-3:05 AM)
- Date
- 1945-08-15
- Description
- NBC. 2:30 AM - Special report from Okinawa with reaction, description, music. 2:35 AM - Victory Parade of Bands - Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra, playing from the Mural Room of the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco. Joe Hutchins, announcer. Elmer Peterson and The News (no start time listed). MacArthur sends message to Hirohito, Japanese start to surrender, Tokyo has flashed cease-fired message, Hirohito speaks to people, final Allied air mission over Japan, United States celebrates V-J Day, reconversion plans, switch to Guam to Nimitz communication on Japanese airplanes still being shot down.
- Series
- News programs
- Subject
- World War II; V-J Day, 1945
- Subject -- Personal Name
- MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964; Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-
- Local Identifier
- news-721
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17171
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- One Man's Family (August 28, 1950)
- Date
- 1950-08-28
- Description
- Book 77, Chapter 11. Frank Barton, announcer. Directed by Michael Rafetto. Father Barbour, recovering from an operation, refuses to use the crutches. Hazel and Jack drop in for a visit, and Jack and Clifford try in vain to get Pop to try the crutches.
- Series
- Entertainment programs -- One Man's Family
- Subject
- One Man's Family (Radio program); Soap operas
- Local Identifier
- omf-002
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50206
- Rights statement
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- Title
- One Man's Family (August 29, 1950)
- Date
- 1950-08-29
- Description
- Book 77, Chapter 12. Frank Barton, announcer. Morse production. Directed by Michael Rafetto. Hazel and Clifford finally get Father to bend his knee.
- Series
- Entertainment programs -- One Man's Family
- Subject
- One Man's Family (Radio program); Soap operas
- Local Identifier
- omf-003
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50207
- Rights statement
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- Title
- One Man's Family (August 30, 1950)
- Date
- 1950-08-30
- Description
- Book 77, Chapter 13. Frank Barton, announcer. Morse production. Directed by Michael Rafetto. Judge Hunter drops by to visit Father and brings his last will and testament along with some funny results.
- Series
- Entertainment programs -- One Man's Family
- Subject
- One Man's Family (Radio program); Soap operas
- Local Identifier
- omf-004
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50208
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.