• 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

1912 Theodore Roosevelt - Right of the People to Rule
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1912 Theodore Roosevelt - Special Interests Speech
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1914 WWI Song - It's a Long Way to Tipperary
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1915 Dwight D Eisenhower - Westpoint & Beyond
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1915 Edward Dwyer - With Our Boys at the Front
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1916 Cavalcade of America - Stories of American Dyes
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1916 WWI Song - America, I Love You
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1917 James Gerard Watson - The German Peril
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1917 WWI Song - Let's All Be Americans Now
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1917 WWI Song - Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh
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1917 WWI Song - Over There
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1917 WWI Song - Where Do We Go from Here
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1918 Cavalcade of America - Eighth Wonder of the World
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1918 Empire Builders - Armistice Day Reunion
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1918 General J J Black Jack Pershing Address from France
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1918 WWI Song - Cheer up Liza
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1918 WWI Song - Good Bye Broadway, Hello France
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1918 WWI Song - Keep Your Head Down, Fritzie Boy
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1918 WWI Song - The Yanks Are at It Again
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1919 0130 Calvin Coolidge - Lincoln Day Proclamation
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1919 0526 Calvin Coolidge - Flag Day Proclamation
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1919 Destination Freedom - Poet of Pine Hill
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1919 F D R - Good Americanism
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1919 Warren G Harding - Campaign Speech
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1920 0704 Calvin Coolidge - Equal Right
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1920 Calvin Coolidge - Law & Order
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1920 Election Song - Profiteering Blues
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1920 Warren G Harding - Campaign Speech
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1920 Warren G Harding America's Present Needs
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1921 Warren G Harding - Disarmament Conference
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