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- CBS Covers the D-Day Invasion (5:52 - 6:22 AM)
- Date
- 1944-06-06
- Description
- CBS. Parts 13-14. Major Eliot continues with a bulletin -- Nazis report Allied landings, etc. Then Bob Trout reviews the morning's events, reads SHAEF bulleting-Allied battleships support invasion, re-reads Gen. Pershing's statement. Switch to London for brief recap of invasion news. Trout resumes with a recap of events. Then Major Eliot has a feature item about an American sergeant, other invasion stories about Allied preparation. Then Trout resumes with New York reaction to invasion.
- Series
- News programs
- Subject
- World War II; World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns France Normandy
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Trout, Robert
- Local Identifier
- news-680
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17172
- Title
- Concert by Marian Anderson, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
- Date
- 1939-04-09
- Description
- NBC Blue Network. Special concert given by Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, sponsored in conjunction with Howard University and the Department of the Interior. Unidentified announcer. Introduction by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes. 1. Introduction - Ickes. 2. "America" 3. "O Mio Fernando" 4. "Ave Maria" Intermission. Remarks by NBC announcer on size of crowd, view from the Memorial and a short review of Anderson's career. 5. "Git on Board" 6. "Trying to Make Heaven My Home"
- Series
- News programs
- Subject
- Women singers
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993
- Local Identifier
- news-633
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17179
- Title
- The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth (Reel 1)
- Date
- 1953-06-02
- Description
- ABC Radio. John McVane is in New York and reporting the ceremonies in London are Tom Flemming, Raymond Baxter, Ted Malone, Mary Margaret McBride, Fredrick B. Opper, Blevins Davis, Jack Parker, Audrey Russell, Bob Studavent. BBC describes the procession to the Abbey as it passes Trafalgar Square, Mary Margaret McBride outside the Abbey describes the dignitaries arriving, various descriptions of the procession.
- Series
- News programs
- Subject
- Coronations
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-
- Local Identifier
- news-750
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17178
- 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
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17169
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- sound recording
- 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
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17177
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- sound recording
- Title
- Rebroadcast of Baukhage's Description of FDR's Internment and Piano Playhouse
- Date
- 1945-04-15
- Description
- 12:30 PM - Rebroadcast of Baukhage's Description of FDR's Internment. George Hayes, announcer. With Baukhage, Walter Kiernan, etc. From 11:00 - 11:30 AM segment of April 15, 1945. 12:45 PM - Piano Playhouse - Unidentified pianist, singer, music and announcer.
- Series
- News programs
- Subject
- World War II
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Baukhage, Hilmar R. (Hilmar Robert), b. 1889
- Local Identifier
- news-697
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17173
- Title
- The Wedding of Princess Elizabeth (Reel 1)
- Date
- 1947-11-20
- Description
- From Westminster Abbey. Pool coverage featuring Merrill Mueller, Frederick B. Opper, Howard K. Smith, Edward R. Murrow and Arthur Mann. Arrival of dignitaries, queen, princess.
- Series
- News programs
- Subject
- Royal weddings
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-; Murrow, Edward R.
- Local Identifier
- news-732
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17174