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1941-1944 |
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| NBC Red: Fibber
McGee and Molly |
9:30 p.m., December
9, 1941
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2:02
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| President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Fireside
Chat on War |
10:00 p.m., December
9, 1941
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5:49
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| CBS: Congress
Declares War on Germany |
12:00 p.m., December
11, 1941
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3:29
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| News: The
U.S. has probably lost Wake Island
to the Japanese |
c. December 22, 1941
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:12
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| President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Christmas
Eve Message To The Nation |
December 24, 1941
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4:25
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| CBS: The
World Today: Defense
of the Philippines |
January 3, 1942
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1:03
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| President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
State
Of The Union Address |
January 6, 1942
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10:15
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| News: William Winter on
The
Defense of Corregidor |
February 13, 1942
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2:19
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| Corporal Erving Strobing
broadcasts the
last message from Corregidor via Morse
Code as the Japanese overtake his position |
May 6, 1942
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5:03
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| News: Gabriel Heatter on
The
Doolittle Raid |
May 10, 1942
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2:03
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| News: A Description of the
Battle
of Midway |
June 4, 1942
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1:52
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| WOR: The Voice of New York:
Gabriel Heatter "Man-on-the-Street"
War Bond Drive Interviews |
June 16, 1942
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3:12
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| President Roosevelt Addresses
The French People on North Africa
Invasion |
November 7, 1942
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3:30
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| News: CBS: American
Armed Forces Land in North Africa |
November 7, 1942
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3:33
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| News: President Roosevelt
and Winston Churchill Met in North Africa
at the Casablanca
Conference |
c. January 25, 1943
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:21
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| News: British: Description
of Stalingrad After German Surrender |
c. February 3, 1943
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1:34
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| News: CBS: World
News Today : After The Collapse
of Axis forces in Tunisia |
May 16, 1943
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3:07
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| News: CBS: World
News Today : excerpts on the bombing
of Hamburg, and an interview with a Marine
Corps pilot shot down over Guadalcanal |
July 25, 1943
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4:43
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| President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fireside
Chat on The War's Progress (4 excerpts)
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July 28, 1943
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6:47
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| New York City Mayor
LaGuardia on The Harlem Riots |
August 2, 1943
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1:26
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| News: CBS: World
News Today: (The 3rd day of the
invasion of Italy). An interview with
Andrew J. Higgins, manufacturer of landing
craft |
September 5, 1943
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4:12
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| General Eisenhower War
Bond Pitch |
October 23, 1943
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3:18
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| News: "The Big Three,"
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, have
met
in Tehran |
December 6, 1943
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1:55
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| News: CBS: World
News Today: The advancing Russian
front; interviews with a crew chief and
a WAC |
March 26, 1944
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7:07
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| News: The
Fall of Monte Cassino |
May 18, 1944
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2:00
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| News: The
Allies Have Entered Rome |
June 5, 1944
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:34
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| President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fireside
Chat on The Fall of Rome |
June 5, 1944
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16:24
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