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- Title
- V-E Day Broadcasts (Reel 1)
- Date
- 1945-05-08
- Description
- Mutual Broadcasting System. President Harry Truman announces the end of the war in Europe in a special nationwide address. Following this, switch to London for a recording of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's address to the British Empire on the end of the war in Europe. Then to Washington where Fulton Lewis, Jr. recaps the morning's events and adds some interesting highlights about Truman's remarks to the press, reel concludes with recorded martial music.
- Series
- News programs
- Subject
- World War II; V-E Day, 1945
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972; Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965; Lewis, Fulton, 1903-1966
- Local Identifier
- news-713
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17170
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.