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Did Radio and TV Pioneer David Sarnoff Coin the Voice of America name?

Curator — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:50:47 +0000

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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Quote: OWI’s [VOA’s agency] mission was to cure “misunderstanding” of Soviet Russia — Oliver Carlson, 1947

Curator — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:04:45 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum One of several Communists who turned anti-communist and exposed Soviet influence at the Office of War Information, the parent U.S. government agency of the Voice of America, was Oliver Carlson, an American writer, journalist, founder of the Young Communist League of America, and lecturer at the University of Chicago. His […]

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Quote: “…the time has arrived to investigate Mr. Epstein…he is not…best type of new American citizen” – VOA Director Foy D. Kohler

Curator — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 06:03:00 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum State Department diplomat and Soviet affairs specialist who was Voice of America director at the time (from October 1949 to September 1952), Foy D. Kohler, denied all the charges of Soviet propaganda influence within the Voice of America, made by former Office of War Information (OWI) German desk editor Julius Epstein, […]

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Voice of America Censors Soviet Massacre Survivor Józef Czapski And Lies About Its Actions

Curator — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 01:35:00 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum On December 11, 1950, a member of the U.S. Congress revealed the Voice of America censorship of Józef Czapski, a Polish military officer, writer, artist, and a witness of Soviet war crimes. The U.S. government broadcaster, the Voice of America (VOA), partially censored Józef Czapski in 1950, when he tried to describe […]

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Pro-Stalin Voice of America Propaganda Revealed in 1984 VOA Interview with Józef Czapski

Curator — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 23:36:13 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum A recent (2017) independent study by the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) focusing on Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts to Iran has found that under Obama administration officials these broadcasts “perpetuated to audiences the appearance of pro-regime [Iran] propaganda, rather than objective reporting, on the part of both the VOA and […]

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How a refugee journalist exposed Voice of America censorship of the Katyn Massacre

Curator — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 01:59:45 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum Fascinating and until now generally unknown details of how a single refugee journalist, Julius Epstein, exposed Voice of America’s (VOA) censorship designed to cover up Soviet responsibility for the 1940 Katyn Forest massacre of nearly 22,000 Polish POW officers and intellectual leaders can be found in several volumes of the Congressional […]

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SOLZHENITSYN Target of KGB Propaganda and Censorship by Voice of America

Curator — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 07:09:24 +0000

OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn SOLZHENITSYN, Target of KGB Propaganda and Censorship by Voice of America By Ted Lipien This research article, written for Cold War Radio Museum website to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik coup in Russia, deals primarily with censorship at the U.S. […]

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Why WWII Voice of America ignored the Holocaust

Curator — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:48:54 +0000

“The Voice of America—the United States Government overseas radio broadcasting station founded in 1942—ignored the subject of the Holocaust throughout the Second World War,” historian Holly Cowan Shulman, the daughter of VOA director Louis G. Cowan (1943-1945), wrote in a 1997 article published in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. She noted that U.S. […]

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‘Love for Stalin’ at wartime Voice of America

Curator — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 04:25:44 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum October 6, 2016 Title: New York, New York. “United Nations” exhibition of photographs presented by the United States Office of War Information (OWI) on Rockefeller Plaza. Listening to broadcasts of President Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and Chiang Kai-shek, heard every half-hour from a loudspeaker at one end of the frame containing the […]

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