• Radio brought the news directly into listeners’ living rooms. Among the major news stories broken on radio: the Scopes monkey trial, carried live by Chicago station WGN in 1925; the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster, covered by WLS Chicago in 1937; and Edward R. Murrow’s CBS reports on the Blitz of Britain, airing in 1940.

American History Thru Eyes of Radio

American History Thru Eyes of Radio

Dramatized historical events, Sound bites and news stories

1843 American Trail, the - On to Monterey
 3.23 MB

1843 Frontier Fighters - Oregon, 54-40
 3.41 MB

1844 American Trail, The - Magic Wire
 3.35 MB

1844 Cavalcade of America - Pioneer Woman Physician
 6.73 MB

1844 Election Song - Come Raise the Banner Polk [ Anti-Clay]
 248.23 KB

1844 Election Song - Jimmy Polk of Tennessee
 393.36 KB

1845 Cavalcade of America - Fame in Literature
 6.89 MB

1846 Adventures in Research - Uncle Sam's Attic
 3.44 MB

1847 Frontier Fighters - Massacre at Taos, New Mexico
 3.47 MB

1848 Cavalcade of America - Story of Dynamite
 6.84 MB

1848 Election Song - Rum-A-Dum-Dum [ Taylor]
 321.92 KB

1848 Mr President - Zacahary Taylor
 4.94 MB

1849 American Trail, the - California Gold Rush
 3.32 MB

1849 Cavalcade of America - Edwin Booth
 6.85 MB

1849 Cavalcade of America - Golden Touch
 6.98 MB

1849 Cavalcade of America - Resourcefulness
 6.74 MB

1849 Frontier Fighters - Oregon & The Pacific Republic
 3.43 MB

1849 Frontier Fighters - The Comstock Lode
 3.37 MB

1850 Cavalcade of America - Speed of Words
 7.11 MB

1851 Cavalcade of America - Heroes of the Sea
 7 MB

1852 Cavalcade of America - Will to Rebuild
 6.85 MB

1852 Election Song - Pierce & King
 388.16 KB

1852 Election Song - Union Wagon [ Fillmore]
 418.11 KB

1855 Cavalcade of America - Railroad Builders
 6.86 MB

1856 Cavalcade of America - Transcontinental Journeys
 6.78 MB

1856 Destination Freedom - Railway to Freedom
 6.68 MB

1856 Election Song - Buchanan & John Breckenridge
 294.78 KB

1857 Cavalcade of America - The Search for Iron
 7.04 MB

1857 Frontier Fighters - Colorado Territory
 3.42 MB

1858 Cavalcade of America - Geronimo
 6.03 MB

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1732 Cavalcade of America - Benjamin Franklin

Dragnet 49-06-24 (004) Production 4 aka Homicide aka Quick Trigger Gun Men

471128 (1345) Plane Mounts Sabotaged With Acid

Richard Diamond 50-10-04 (067) The Pete Rocco Case

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