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Radio Free Europe Launched in 1950

  Radio Free Europe started broadcasting on July 4, 1950. The first broadcast was to Czechoslovakia. It originated from New York with the following words: “The voice of free Czechoslovakia is speaking, the radio station Free Europe.” Later, RFE...

Photograph President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in front of microphones of U.S. radio networks.

FDR Creates Office of War Information

  President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the Office of War Information (OWI) on June 13, 1942 through the Executive Order 9182. The OWI operated within the Office for Emergency Management in the Executive Office of the President. FDR...

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