VOA 1950 Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/ctl-stories/voa-1950/ Cold War Radio History Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:08:25 +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 VOA 1950 Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/ctl-stories/voa-1950/ 32 32 Former Voice of America Chief News Writer Howard Fast Sent to Prison for Contempt of Congress https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/timeline/former-voice-of-america-chief-news-writer-howard-fast-sent-to-prison-for-contempt-of-congress/ Sat, 06 Apr 2024 17:11:34 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=20511 On June 8, 1950, American novelist and Communist Party USA (CPUSA) activist and journalist Howard Fast, a former Voice of America’s (VOA) chief news writer and editor in the wartime United States Office of War Information (OWI), began serving his three-month prison sentence at Mill Point Federal Prison in West Virginia. Three years earlier, in […]

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]]> President Truman Launches The “Campaign of Truth” https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/timeline/president-truman-launches-the-campaign-of-truth/ Tue, 12 Jul 2022 06:28:22 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=14785 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 Society of Newspaper Editors as the answer to harsh Soviet propaganda attacks on the United States and its allies. He […]

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]]> Voice of America Censors Soviet Massacre Survivor Józef Czapski And Lies About Its Actions https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/timeline/voice-of-america-censors-soviet-massacre-survivor-jozef-czapski-and-lies-about-its-actions/ Sun, 26 Jun 2022 01:41:10 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=14617 Cold War Radio Museum On December 11, 1950, a member of the U.S. Congress revealed the Voice of America censorship of Józef Czapski, a Polish military officer, writer, artist, and a witness of Soviet war crimes. The U.S. government broadcaster, the Voice of America (VOA), partially censored Józef Czapski in 1950, when he tried to describe […]

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