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Title: 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: FDR Declaration of War (Reel 1)
Date: 1941-12-08
Description: Mutual Broadcasting System. Fulton Lewis, Jr. and Walter Compton in the House Radio Gallery. Disc 1 begins with FDR's address. He backgrounds the recent peace talks, etc.
Series: News programs
Subject: World War II; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
Subject -- Personal Name: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Compton, Walter, 1912-1959; Lewis, Fulton, 1903-1966
Local Identifier: news-673
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17176

Title: Fulton Lewis Jr. and The News
Date: 1940-11-07
Description: From WGN, Chicago. Guy Savage, announcer. FDR wins third term and Mr. Lewis offers detailed and interesting election results.
Series: News programs
Subject: Presidents United States Election
Subject -- Personal Name: Lewis, Fulton, 1903-1966; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Local Identifier: news-656
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17175

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: 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
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/hickman:435
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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: sound recording

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
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17171

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: 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
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17170

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

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