Cold War Radio Museum On May 3, 1943, the Office of War Information (OWI) Director Elmer Davis was heard in Europe in a Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcast supporting the Soviet propaganda description of the Katyn Forest massacre of thousands of...
Cold War Radio Museum In his Executive Order 9608 issued on August 31, 1945, President Truman abolished the functions of the Office of War Information (OWI), and ordered the transfer of radio broadcasting operations to the State Department...
President John F. Kennedy sworn in Edward R. Murrow as Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) on March 21, 1961. March 21, 1961. Swearing-in ceremony for Edward R. Murrow as Director of the United States Information Agency...
The first Voice of America broadcast in Russian aired from New York on February 17, 1947. Before that date, VOA did not broadcast in Russian or in Ukrainian, not even during World War II. Russian was the only major language missing in the VOA...
Cold War Radio Museum The Cold War was almost over in 1989-1990. The Voice of America was looking for new ways to deliver news to Eastern Europe. The bilingual VOA Polish-English newscast was one of several projects initiated in the VOA Polish...
The International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples was established on December 21, 1949 by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in honor of Joseph Stalin’s seventieth birthday. One of the several...
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...
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...
In his February 26, 1962 speech to mark the 20th anniversary of the Voice of America (VOA), President John Kennedy discussed the necessity of freedom of information and complete truthfulness of the press, but he also argued that the Voice of...
On February 1, 1942, the first Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcast in German may have gone on the air. There has been some uncertainty as to the exact date when in February 1942 the first such VOA shortwave radio program reached the listeners in...