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On February 1, 1942, the first Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcast in German may have gone on the air...First Radio Broadcast of Future Voice of America

  President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the Office of War Information (OWI) on June 13, 1942 through the Executive Order..FDR Creates Office of War Information

  Cold War Radio Museum The State Department informed the White House in a memorandum from Under Secretary of State..Read More

Cold War Radio Museum On May 3, 1943, the Office of War Information (OWI) Director Elmer Davis was heard in..OWI Director Supports Soviet Katyn Propaganda Lie On Voice of America And Domestic Radio

Cold War Radio Museum Julius Epstein[ref]“How a refugee journalist exposed Voice of America censorship of the Katyn Massacre,” Cold War..Read More

By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum We know of only one Voice of America (VOA) journalist, Konstanty Broel..Broel Plater Resigns In Protest Against Soviet Propaganda On Voice Of America

Cold War Radio Museum In his Executive Order 9608 issued on August 31, 1945, President Truman abolished the functions of..Read More

— Oliver Carlson (1899–1991) founder of the Young Communist League of America who became an anti-communist writer, University of Chicago political..

— 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, 1952, 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