Cold War Radio Museum Direct Voice of America broadcasts from Washington, DC to Italy ended on July 7, 1957. The Voice of America studios were in New York from 1942 through 1953. The VOA headquarters moved from New York to Washington, DC after the...
In the early 1950s, the U.S. State Department launched its public diplomacy program called “The Campaign of Truth” designed to counter Soviet propaganda using the Voice of America (VOA) and the State Department’s public diplomacy...
During World War II, the federal government’s Office of War Information (OWI), which launched Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts for overseas audiences in 1942, produced news and factual war information as well as deceptive...
On February 24, 1982, the Voice of America held a celebration to mark the 40th anniversary of its founding. It was believed that the first Voice of America radio broadcast in German was aired on February 24, 1942, but it may have aired three weeks...