audio WWII_News_19450506_Drew_Pearson sound 2004-05-09 15:55:14 WWII News Broadcasts This is a contemporary amateur home recording of a live WWII-era radio news broadcast (see note below). This is the May 5th, 1945 installment of Drew Pearson's program of news and commentary, dealing mostly with the imminent end of hostilities in Europe. There is a gap near the end of the program where the original recorder skipped a commercial, and there is some fading towards the end of the program. The only information on the disk label is "Drew Pearson May 6, 1945 7:00 PM". 1945-05-06 00:00:00 opensource_historicalaudio 78s@verizon.net 2004-05-08 06:16:51 old78collector 0 11:05 2004-05-11 15:05:59 old78collector This is a contemporary WWII-era home recording of a live radio broadcast. It is from one of a batch of 40 twelve-inch plastic-on-aluminum "Audiodisc" home recording disks that were salvaged from a garage, still packed in their original wooden crates. These recordings often start and stop abruptly and contain some noise and static, but with digital cleanup most are quite listenable. The only information I have about these recordings is the brief handwritten descriptions on the labels, so sometimes the content is a bit mysterious. Home recording disk digitized by old78collector 1 News Programs;Radio Broadcasts;Spoken Word 4964 audio_historical