Cold War Radio Museum One of several Communists who turned anti-communist and exposed Soviet influence at the Office of War Information, the parent U.S. government agency of the Voice of America, was Oliver Carlson, an American writer, journalist...
Cold War Radio Museum The United States Information Agency (USIA) was created on August 1, 1953, by Executive Order 10477 issued by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. USIA served as the public diplomacy agency of the United States during most of...
Cold War Radio Museum President Harry Truman unveiled the “Campaign of Truth”– a multi-faceted U.S. government’s international information policy – in a foreign policy speech on April, 20, 1950 to members of the American...
Cold War Radio Museum In 1943, in the middle of the war, the U.S. Congress almost completely de-funded domestic propaganda programs of the Office of War Information (OWI), which also managed Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts for overseas...
Cold War Radio Museum The State Department informed the White House in a memorandum from Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles sent on April 6, 1943 that John Houseman, the chief producer of Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts, although the...
Cold War Radio Museum In the presidential news conference on May 15, 1945, President Truman sided with General Eisenhower and confirmed that the Office of War Information Director Elmer Davis incorrectly stated that his agency would control...
Future First Voice of America Director Introduces Americans To Entertainment Fake Radio News in 1938
Cold War Radio Museum One of the main reasons John Houseman was selected to produce the first Voice of America radio broadcasts in 1942 was his success in producing with Orson Welles in 1938 the first entertainment fake radio news broadcast in...
Cold War Radio Museum Julius Epstein[ref]“How a refugee journalist exposed Voice of America censorship of the Katyn Massacre,” Cold War Radio Museum, April 16, 2018, .[/ref], a Jewish refugee journalist from Austria who himself had a brief...
Cold War Radio Museum On January 12, 1944, Howard Fast, best-selling author, a Communist Party USA activist, and a future recipient of the Stalin Peace Prize, resigned under pressure from his position as the Voice of America (VOA) chief news...
Cold War Radio Museum “To sell the religion of democracy” is believed to be the first written though unofficial mission statement describing the purpose of the Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts for overseas audiences as they were being...