Robert E. Sherwood Archives - Cold War Radio Museum

A Book for Experts and Students of Cold War History

Curator — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 22:26:22 +0000

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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Office of War Information – Descriptions of Voice of America, OWI, and Office of Censorship Show Similarities to Disinformation Governance Board

Curator — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 23:25:33 +0000

The Office of War Information (OWI) and the Voice of America (VOA) during the Second World War would have been the closest model for comparison to the Disinformation Governance Board (DGB), an advisory board of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), announced on April 27, 2022, to protect national security by disseminating guidance on combating disinformation but later paused […]

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Voice of America Posts Its First Ever U.S. Election Campaign Ad

Curator — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 21:52:00 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum In an unprecedented break with longtime practice and in violation of the VOA Charter, the Voice of America posted online in 2016 a number of unbalanced and unchallenged promotional videos and partisan commentaries. Almost all were in favor of Democratic Party candidates or against Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump, although […]

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Selling “the religion of democracy” was in Voice of America’s first mission statement

Curator — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 04:48:53 +0000

By Ted Lipien “To sell the religion of democracy” is believed to be the first written though unofficial mission statement describing the purpose of the Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts for overseas audiences as they were being planned during World War II in the U.S. government Office of the Coordinator of Information (COI). These […]

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Early U.S. government press release on ‘voice’ of America

Curator — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 05:42:09 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum New York, New York. 1943 “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 Atlantic Charter. This […]

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First VOA Director was a pro-Soviet communist sympathizer, State Dept. warned FDR White House

Curator — Sat, 05 May 2018 06:23:44 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum April 1943 – State Department Warns White House of Soviet Influence at Voice of America May 4, 2018 Analysis by Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum In 2018, the online Cold War Radio Museum presented for the first time to a broader online audience a secret 1943 memorandum sent to the Roosevelt […]

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April 20, 1943 — Congressman Woodruff warns of Soviet propaganda in Voice of America broadcasts

Curator — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:49:30 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum On April 13, 1943, Nazi Germany’s propaganda machine announced the discovery of the graves containing the bodies of thousands of Polish prisoners of war in Soviet captivity who went missing in Russia in the spring of 1940. A few days later, on April 16 and April 17, 1943, the management of […]

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75th Anniversary of Voice of America – Propaganda Coordination with USSR

Curator — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 14:51:11 +0000

The World War II propaganda arm of the United States government, the Office of War Information (OWI), was the parent agency of the Voice of America (VOA). VOA was celebrating its 75th anniversary in February 2017. In this new historical series about the Voice of America, Cold War Radio Museum presents formerly classified U.S. government […]

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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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