VOA 1942 Archives - Cold War Radio Museum

Walter Duranty on Voice of America’s First Program Director Joseph F. Barnes

Curator — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 16:36:58 +0000

A commentary by Ted Lipien for the Cold War Radio Museum In doing historical research, I found a few indirect links between one of Joseph Stalin’s greatest apologists, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning Moscow correspondent in the 1930s Walter Duranty, and the Voice of America (VOA), the international radio broadcasting station, which since 1942 […]

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WWII Pro-Soviet U.S. Government Propaganda in Polish Was Spread in Pamphlets and Voice of America Radio Broadcasts

Curator — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 17:33:44 +0000

WWII Pro-Soviet U.S. Government Propaganda in Polish Was Spread in Pamphlets and Voice of America Radio Broadcasts by Ted Lipien During World War II, the Office of War Information (OWI) produced and distributed printed propaganda material in the United States and abroad and was also responsible for the Voice of America (VOA) shortwave and medium-wave […]

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Polish Radio Host Who Resigned from Voice of America to Avoid Broadcasting Soviet Propaganda Lies About Katyn Massacre

Curator — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 22:18:09 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum By Ted Lipien We know of only one Voice of America (VOA) journalist, Konstanty Broel Plater, who resigned from his job at the U.S. government radio station during World War II in protest against the orders from the VOA management and the editors in the Office of War Information (OWI) in […]

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FDR Creates Office of War Information

Curator — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 22:05:00 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the Office of War Information (OWI) on June 13, 1942 through the Executive Order 9182. The OWI operated within the Office for Emergency Management in the Executive Office of the President. FDR appointed the OWI director who reported directly to him. The new agency combined several pre-existing […]

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First Radio Broadcast of Future Voice of America

Curator — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 06:21:00 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum On February 1, 1942, the first Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcast in German may have gone on the air. There has been some uncertainty as to the exact date when in February 1942 the first such VOA shortwave radio program reached the listeners in Europe. Moreover, for the first several […]

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Quote: “We must sell the ‘religion of democracy’”– First Unofficial Voice of America Mission Statement By Nelson Poynter, Office Of The Coordinator of Information

Curator — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 01:00:00 +0000

— Nelson Poynter, U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Information, January 11, 1942

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