Curator, Author at Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/author/curator/ Cold War Radio History Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:56:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-CWRM-Mic2022-32x32.jpg Curator, Author at Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/author/curator/ 32 32  “Broadcasters for Radio Free Europe”: Transcription Disc from the Crusade for Freedom Era (c. 1958–1962) https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/broadcasters-for-radio-free-europe-transcription-disc-from-the-crusade-for-freedom-era-c-1958-1962/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/broadcasters-for-radio-free-europe-transcription-disc-from-the-crusade-for-freedom-era-c-1958-1962/#respond Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:41:20 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=25422 These two images document a 33⅓ RPM transcription disc titled “Broadcasters for Radio Free Europe.” The names listed and the format place it in the late 1950s to early 1960s, during the period when Radio Free Europe (RFE) operated publicly through the Free Europe Fund and the Crusade for Freedom campaign. The disc contains a sequence of short recorded statements by […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/broadcasters-for-radio-free-europe-transcription-disc-from-the-crusade-for-freedom-era-c-1958-1962/feed/ 0 Farewell to Stefan Korboński in Washington (1989) — Recording and Memory https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/farewell-to-stefan-korbonski-in-washington-1989-recording-and-memory/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/farewell-to-stefan-korbonski-in-washington-1989-recording-and-memory/#respond Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:52:34 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=25391 An archival audio cassette preserving a fragment of the funeral service for Stefan Korboński in Washington, D.C., in 1989, forms part of the documentary record of the Polish émigré community and its media institutions in the West. The recording presented here is one of the few surviving audio traces of the memorial Mass held on April 27, 1989, […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/farewell-to-stefan-korbonski-in-washington-1989-recording-and-memory/feed/ 0 April 22, 1954: Howard Fast Accepts the Stalin Peace Prize in New York https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/april-22-1954-howard-fast-accepts-the-stalin-peace-prize-in-new-york/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/april-22-1954-howard-fast-accepts-the-stalin-peace-prize-in-new-york/#respond Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:05:17 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=25371 by Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum April 22 is not a date usually remembered in the history of the Voice of America (VOA). Yet it deserves to be. On this day in 1954, at the Hotel McAlpin in New York, Howard Fast — a former chief news writer and editor for Voice of […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/april-22-1954-howard-fast-accepts-the-stalin-peace-prize-in-new-york/feed/ 0 Voice of America and Soviet “Democracy”: How VOA Journalists Helped Establish Communist Regimes https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/voice-of-america-and-soviet-democracy-how-voa-journalists-helped-establish-communist-regimes/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/voice-of-america-and-soviet-democracy-how-voa-journalists-helped-establish-communist-regimes/#respond Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:26:35 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=25253 Voice of America, OWI, and the Polish Desk: A Reconsideration The history of the wartime Voice of America (VOA) is most often presented as a story of broadcasting truthful news in defense of freedom and democracy. That description, while not entirely false, is incomplete. In the case of the Polish-language sections of the Office of […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/voice-of-america-and-soviet-democracy-how-voa-journalists-helped-establish-communist-regimes/feed/ 0 Walter Lippmann, the Voice of America, and the Limits of Liberal and Conservative Thought https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/walter-lippmann-the-voice-of-america-and-the-limits-of-liberal-and-conservative-thought/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/walter-lippmann-the-voice-of-america-and-the-limits-of-liberal-and-conservative-thought/#respond Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:32:34 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=24988 A reexamination of Walter Lippmann’s critique of the Voice of America (VOA) in light of wartime propaganda, Soviet influence operations, and the practical realities of Cold War broadcasting—revealing both the insight and the limits of his analysis. Lippmann’s Prestige—and the Context He Carried With Him A Celebrated Journalist in a Contested Information Environment In August […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/walter-lippmann-the-voice-of-america-and-the-limits-of-liberal-and-conservative-thought/feed/ 0 The Breakfast Show: From Institutional Voice to Pat Gates — Voice of America, 1961–1978 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/the-breakfast-show-from-institutional-voice-to-pat-gates-voice-of-america-1961-1978/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/the-breakfast-show-from-institutional-voice-to-pat-gates-voice-of-america-1961-1978/#respond Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:18:28 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=24484 An early preserved recording documenting the program’s beginnings — and the later rise of Pat Gates as one of the Voice of America’s rare internationally recognized broadcasting personalities. The Breakfast Show was a worldwide English-language morning program inaugurated by the Voice of America (VOA) in 1961. Produced in Washington, D.C., it combined international news reporting, […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/the-breakfast-show-from-institutional-voice-to-pat-gates-voice-of-america-1961-1978/feed/ 0 A Free Voice at Christmas: RIAS Berlin, Edward R. Murrow, and the Sound of the Cold War (1961) https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/a-free-voice-at-christmas-rias-berlin-edward-r-murrow-and-the-sound-of-the-cold-war-1961/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/a-free-voice-at-christmas-rias-berlin-edward-r-murrow-and-the-sound-of-the-cold-war-1961/#respond Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:26:09 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=24021 Recovering a forgotten Voice of America / RIAS relay preserved on magnetic tape At a glance Jump to a section I. Introduction – Why This Tape Matters In December 1961 — just months after the Berlin Wall divided Berlin and reshaped Cold War realities — the Voice of America (VOA) presented a special World-Wide English […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/a-free-voice-at-christmas-rias-berlin-edward-r-murrow-and-the-sound-of-the-cold-war-1961/feed/ 0 The Radio Free Europe Fund: Civic Pageantry and Covert Funding in the Cold War https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/the-radio-free-europe-fund-civic-pageantry-and-covert-funding-in-the-cold-war/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/the-radio-free-europe-fund-civic-pageantry-and-covert-funding-in-the-cold-war/#respond Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:55:54 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=23954 How the Radio Free Europe Fund used civic pageantry, fundraising, and public campaigns to support a covert Cold War broadcasting operation. Illustrated with archival photographs and documents.

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/the-radio-free-europe-fund-civic-pageantry-and-covert-funding-in-the-cold-war/feed/ 0 A Paycheck from the “National Committee for a Free Europe”: A Small Document from a Covert Cold War Operation https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/a-paycheck-from-the-national-committee-for-a-free-europe-a-small-document-from-a-covert-cold-war-operation/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/a-paycheck-from-the-national-committee-for-a-free-europe-a-small-document-from-a-covert-cold-war-operation/#respond Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:05:46 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=23924 A Paycheck from the “National Committee for a Free Europe”: A Small Document from a Covert Cold War Operation Artifact Description Payroll Statement (P/R Statement)Issuer: National Committee for a Free Europe, Inc.Date: Period ending September 30, early 1950sPlace of issue: New York, N.Y.Medium: Printed NCR payroll form on security-pattern paperCollection: Cold War Radio Museum This […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/a-paycheck-from-the-national-committee-for-a-free-europe-a-small-document-from-a-covert-cold-war-operation/feed/ 0 John Houseman, Howard Fast, and the Pro-Soviet Voice of America https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/john-houseman-howard-fast-and-the-pro-soviet-voice-of-america/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/john-houseman-howard-fast-and-the-pro-soviet-voice-of-america/#respond Mon, 10 Nov 2025 07:11:05 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=23504 Houseman’s Role in VOA Propaganda John Houseman, long mythologized as the “first director” of the Voice of America (VOA), was in reality its first chief producer — a man of the theater rather than a journalist. Editorial policy was shaped by Joseph F. Barnes, a pro-Soviet fellow-traveler newspaper reporter and close associate of Walter Duranty, […]

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