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1948 Radio News

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1948
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69

News from 1948.

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I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1948 news file dump. Plus some talk shows and specials.

Any typo or error is mine.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. CBS Edward R. Murrow I Can Hear It Now 1933-1945

    · 45 min

  2. CBS UN Radio Between the Dark and the Daylight Edward R. Murrow

    · 29 min

  3. David Ben Gurion Israel

    · 1:56

  4. Election Song Truman I'm Just Wild About Harry

    · 0:46

  5. Election Song Wallace I've Got a Ballot

    · 1:02

  6. RIAS Berlin Interval Signal, ID

    · 0:32

  7. NBC News

    · 15 min

  8. NBC News Of The World

    · 15 min

  9. ABC Jergens Journal Walter Winchell - 40,000 More Dollars In 1948

    · 14 min

  10. WEEI Job Center Jobs For Vets

    · 15 min

  11. WXYZ Sandlotters Sportsmen Unusal War Experience

    · 15 min

  12. NBC U.S.O. Camp Tour - U.S.O. Farewell Program

    · 29 min

  13. BBC Open University Bertrand Russell & Fr Frederick Copleston A Debate On The Existence of God

    · 19 min

  14. NBC News Of The World Gandhi Special

    · 29 min

  15. NBC News Of The World

    · 14 min

  16. CBC John Fisher Post-War Europe

    · 11 min

  17. ABC Jergens Journal Walter Winchell - Seven Crashed Airmen Rescued

    · 15 min

  18. CBS The People's Platform Should the Draft Be Restored?

    · 29 min

  19. CBC The Atom Bomb

    · 2:18

  20. CBS Operation Nightmare 01 Displaced Persons - Al Jolson, John Garfield

    · 29 min

  21. CBS Operation Nightmare 02 Nightmare Chapter 2 - Al Jolson, Alan Reed, David Rose, Richard Widmark

    · 29 min

  22. CBS Cross-Section U.S.A

    · 29 min

  23. CBS Play Ball Pee Wee Reese - 1st 15 minutes missing

    · 45 min

  24. CBS Wendy Warren & The News Riots in Kobe

    · 14 min

  25. NBC Clifton Utley Commentary Palestine

    · 14 min

  26. WHAS Kentucky Derby Clem McCarthy

    · 2:19

  27. NBC Dewey-Stassen Debate Should The Communist Party Be Outlawed?

    · 59 min

  28. KFI Tillamook Kitchen of the Air Hot Potato Salad

    · 13 min

  29. CBS KNX Midnight Merry Go Round College Songs & Marches

    · 17 min

  30. MBS KBMY Tony Zale vs Rocky Graziano

    · 29 min

  31. ABC The Gillette Cavalcade Of Sports Joe Louis vs. Joe Walcott

    · 56 min

  32. BBC Prime Minister Rt Hon Clement Attlee Welcomes Olympic Athletes

    · 3:39

  33. BBC Attlee The New Social Services and the Citizen

    · 15 min

  34. CBS News Report from Overseas

    · 15 min

  35. SYN Adventure, Inc. Pappy Boyington

    · 26 min

  36. MBS Alvin Helfer News

    · 4:30

  37. ABC Voice Of The Nation

    · 15 min

  38. NBC Let's Talk Hollywood George Murphy, Eddie Bracken

    · 29 min

  39. NBC WMAQ The Dizzy Dean Show Charlie Grimm - from podcast

    · 17 min

  40. BBC Olympic Teams Visit Buckingham Palace Robert Jackson Robinson

    · 3:11

  41. NBC WMAQ The Dizzy Dean Show The Wabash Canonball - from podcast

    · 34 min

  42. ABC Jergens Journal Walter Winchell

    · 15 min

  43. ABC Louella Parsons Show Farley Granger, Edith Head

    · 15 min

  44. NBC News

    · 4:49

  45. CBS Louella Parsons George Raft

    · 15 min

  46. Radio New Zealand External Service Inaugural Broadcast Interval Signal ID

    · 1:04

  47. General Lucius Clay on Berlin Airlift

    · 0:36

  48. AFRS Truman Address at the Kiel Auditorium St. Louis

    · 29 min

  49. KGHL or KBMY Beale Reformation Sunday

    · 28 min

  50. WNYC New York, NY WQXR's Halloween Nightmare

    · 4:04

  51. CBS Report To The Nation Sgt. Ben Kuroki, Maxine Sullivan

    · 29 min

  52. NBC Truman Remarks at Victory Celebration in Independence, Missouri

    · 2:09

  53. BBC The Birth of HRH Prince Charles

    · 0:41

  54. MBS Top Tunes Of '48

    · 30 min

  55. SYN Cavalcade of 1948 United Press

    · 27 min

  56. ABC Jergens Journal Walter Winchell

    · 15 min

  57. CBS Louella Parsons Ethel Barrymore

    · 15 min

  58. NBC University of Chicago Roundtable Race Problems and World Peace

    · 29 min

  59. ABC Jergens Journal Walter Winchell Geography Books Are Wrong

    · 15 min

  60. AFRS Command Performance Christmas 1948 Cass Daley

    · 1 h 02 min

  61. AFRS Command Performance Christmas Special Part 1 Ann Sothern Edmund Gwenn

    · 1 h 02 min

  62. AFRS Command Performance Christmas Special Part 2

    · 1 h 02 min

  63. NBC The Mary Lee Taylor Program Christmas Story

    · 28 min

  64. ABC Jergens Journal Walter Winchell Final Broadcast For Jergens

    · 14 min

  65. AFRS The Bob Hope Show Christmas Day Show - Berlin Airlift General Doolittle

    · 27 min

  66. NBC Bill Stern's Sports Newsreel 479 George Raft 1948 In Review

    · 14 min

  67. 19xx-xx-xx DW Beginn der Berlin-Blockade 24 June 1948

    No date given · 4:50

  68. 19xx-xx-xx Harry S Truman Describes the 1948 Soviet Blockade of Berlin

    No date given · 1:38

  69. 19xx-xx-xx Harry S Truman On the 1948 Berlin Airlift

    No date given · 1:16

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