Bertram Wolfe Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/tag/bertram-wolfe/ Cold War Radio History Sun, 31 Aug 2025 23:11:33 +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 Bertram Wolfe Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/tag/bertram-wolfe/ 32 32 Did Radio and TV Pioneer David Sarnoff Coin the Voice of America name? https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/did-radio-and-tv-pioneer-david-sarnoff-coin-the-voice-of-america-name/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/did-radio-and-tv-pioneer-david-sarnoff-coin-the-voice-of-america-name/#respond Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:50:47 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=18754 Summary David Sarnoff, the pioneer of the radio and television industry in the United States and the founder of the NBC network, was most likely the first American with access to the White House to present a comprehensive plan for U.S. government-funded international radio broadcasting and one of the first to suggest for it the […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/did-radio-and-tv-pioneer-david-sarnoff-coin-the-voice-of-america-name/feed/ 0 Voice of America Expands Katyn Massacre Coverage in 1952 After Years of Censorship https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/voice-of-america-expands-katyn-massacre-coverage-in-1952-after-years-of-censorship/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/voice-of-america-expands-katyn-massacre-coverage-in-1952-after-years-of-censorship/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2023 23:19:19 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=15587 By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum After years of coverup and censorship of news about the Katyn massacre committed by the Soviets in 1940 on about 22,000 Polish military reserve officers, government officials, and intellectual leaders, the Voice of America (VOA) began extensive coverage of the story following President Truman’s “Campaign of Truth” […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/voice-of-america-expands-katyn-massacre-coverage-in-1952-after-years-of-censorship/feed/ 1 Religious Programs at the Voice of America https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/religious-programs-at-the-voice-of-america/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/religious-programs-at-the-voice-of-america/#respond Thu, 08 Dec 2022 23:38:34 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=15340 Anti-communist atheist Bertram D. Wolfe discovered that Voice of America (VOA) English-language service writers could not write persuasively about religion in communist-ruled nations in the early 1950s. Religious programming was then and continues to be a challenge for VOA’s American-born officials and broadcasters, partly because of the wrongly perceived separation of church and state concerns […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/religious-programs-at-the-voice-of-america/feed/ 0 A Book for Experts and Students of Cold War History https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/a-book-for-experts-and-students-of-cold-war-history/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/a-book-for-experts-and-students-of-cold-war-history/#respond Mon, 03 Oct 2022 22:26:22 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=14819 Mark Pomar’s new book about the Cold War political radio could help American government officials unfamiliar with the history of U.S. international broadcasting. By Ted Lipien Mark Pomar’s book Cold War Radio [Mark G. Pomar, Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Lincoln: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University […]

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