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...
Cold War Radio Museum The first “Voice of America” radio broadcast in German aired in February 1942. There has been some uncertainty as to the exact date of the first German-language VOA broadcast. Moreover, for the first several years, the name...
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...
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...