Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum On Sunday, September 27, 1987, Vice President and future U.S. President George H. W. Bush, who visited Poland at the request of President Ronald Reagan, took part with his wife, Barbara Bush, and the American...
by Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum 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...
One of the newest exhibits of the online Cold War Radio Museum is an envelope addressed to the news department of the BBC Polish Service, posted in Great Britain in March 1940. The envelope has the inscription “PASSED BY CENSOR,”...
Summary Marek Walicki, Voice of America, circa 1990. Marek Walicki, a journalist and former broadcaster of the Polish Service of Radio Free Europe (RFE) and the Polish Service of the Voice of America (VOA), is the author of a book, Z Polski...
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum On December 13, 1981, the communist government of the Polish People’s Republic subservient to Moscow introduced martial law and formed a military junta in an ultimately unsuccessful...
My new op-ed in The Hill includes comments on the latest barbaric attacks by Hamas terrorists on Israeli civilians—defenseless Jewish women, children, and the elderly. I discuss the hard-to-understand and explain defense of...
A commentary by Ted Lipien for the Cold War Radio Museum In doing historical research, I found a few indirect links between one of Joseph Stalin’s greatest apologists, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning Moscow correspondent in the 1930s...
Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum The March 25, 1951 Sunday edition of the New York Times had a review by journalist and writer Harry Schwartz of Elinor Lipper’s book Eleven Years in Soviet Prison Camps, in which the former Western...
Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum The Voice of America Program Schedule for November-December 1951 reveals a year of program expansion and programming changes at the U.S. government’s radio station for overseas audiences, which was managed...
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum Kathleen Harriman in U.S. Army uniform at the time she worked as a volunteer for the Office of War Information (OWI), the parent agency of the Voice of America (VOA). Kathleen Harriman Mortimer was an American...