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

— Office of War Information announcer William Harlan Hale. February 1942.

  During World War II, the federal government’s Office of War Information (OWI), which launched Voice of America (VOA) radio..Members of Congress Exposed Domestic U.S. Government Propaganda in 1943

Cold War Radio Museum In 2018, the online Cold War Radio Museum presented for the first time to a broader online audience..Read More

Cold War Radio Museum In 1943, in the middle of the war, the U.S. Congress almost completely de-funded domestic propaganda..Read More

Cold War Radio Museum On January 12, 1944, Howard Fast, best-selling author, a Communist Party USA activist, and a future..Read More

Cold War Radio Museum In the presidential news conference on May 15, 1945, President Truman sided with General Eisenhower and..Read More

The first Voice of America broadcast in Russian aired from New York on February 17, 1947. Before that date, VOA..Voice Of America Launched Soft Broadcasts to Soviet Russia

— Senator Homer Earl Capehart, (R-Indiana) May 26, 1948. Cold War Radio Museum By 1948, the Voice of America’s failure..U.S. Senators Criticize VOA-NBC Broadcasts As “Baloney,” “Lies,” “Insults,” “Drivel,” “Nonsense,” “Falsehoods,” “Downright Tragedy.”

Radio Free Europe started broadcasting on July 4, 1950. The first broadcast was to Czechoslovakia. It originated from New York..Radio Free Europe Launched in 1950

Cold War Radio Museum Speaking in the U.S. House of Representatives on July 24, 1951, Congressman Richard B. Wigglesworth (Republican-Massachusetts)..Read More

In the early 1950s, the U.S. State Department launched its public diplomacy program called “The Campaign of Truth” designed to..U.S. State Department Describing Voice of America for ‘The Campaign of Truth’ Circa 1952

Cold War Radio Museum In its final report issued on December 22, 1950, the bipartisan Madden Committee of the U.S...Read More

– Walter Lippmann, “Why the Voice of America Should Be Abolished,” Reader’s Digest, August 1953. Condensed from New York Herald..Read More

The International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples was established on December 21, 1949 by a decree of the..Read More

President John F. Kennedy sworn in Edward R. Murrow as Director of the United States Information Agency  (USIA)    on..Edward R. Murrow Apologizes for Censorship

Cold War Radio Museum Drafted in 1960, the VOA Charter was signed into law on July 12, 1976 by President..Read More

On February 24, 1982, the Voice of America held a celebration to mark the 40th anniversary of its founding. It..Voice of America 1982 40th Anniversary Broadcast

Cold War Radio Museum 1990 VOA Polish Service Bilingual Polish-English Newscast The Cold War was almost over in 1989-1990. The..Polish-English VOA Newscast 1990

Cold War Radio Museum During testimony on January 23, 2013 before the House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting chaired by Rep...Hillary Clinton Declares U.S. Broadcasting “Practically Defunct”

Cold War Radio Museum On October 6, 2017, the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) released a highly critical study of..Read More

Cold War Radio Museum During the short tenure of Michael Pack, the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO..USAGM honors VOA Polish broadcaster Zofia Korbońska in 2020