John V. Beamer Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/tag/john-v-beamer/ Cold War Radio History Tue, 24 Dec 2024 05:49:20 +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 John V. Beamer Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/tag/john-v-beamer/ 32 32 USCGC Courier – Voice of America Radio Transmitting Ship – Reception Problems and False VOA Audience Claims PART I https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/uscgc-courier-voice-of-america-radio-transmitting-ship-reception-problems-and-false-voa-audience-claims-part-i/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/uscgc-courier-voice-of-america-radio-transmitting-ship-reception-problems-and-false-voa-audience-claims-part-i/#respond Wed, 11 May 2022 21:55:22 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=12138 Senator Bourke Hickenlooper The launching of the Voice of America radio transmitting ship Courier in 1952 was an important part of the “Campaign of Truth,” the international broadcasting and public diplomacy initiative announced by President Harry Truman in a speech two years earlier. The design and the use of the ship by VOA, but mostly […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/voice-of-america-had-no-audience-in-pre-castro-cuba-did-poorly-in-exposing-failures-of-soviet-socialism/feed/ 0 Voice of America 1951 – Presidents’ Day and Debates on VOA’s Future https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/2018/02/20/voice-of-america-1951-presidents-day-and-debate-on-voas-future/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/2018/02/20/voice-of-america-1951-presidents-day-and-debate-on-voas-future/#respond Tue, 20 Feb 2018 02:07:34 +0000 http://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=1765 Cold War Radio Museum In 1951, the Voice of America (VOA), which was at that time located primarily in New York but managed from Washington by the State Department, was under heavy criticism, particularly from Republicans in the U.S. Congress, for failing to counter Soviet propaganda. There was a spirited debate as to whether VOA […]

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