• Radio brought the news directly into listeners’ living rooms. Among the major news stories broken on radio: the Scopes monkey trial, carried live by Chicago station WGN in 1925; the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster, covered by WLS Chicago in 1937; and Edward R. Murrow’s CBS reports on the Blitz of Britain, airing in 1940.

file_6179debfae9b8_GG511003 - Gildy Wants to Be Re-Elected President of the Joll

File Size: 6.9 MB
File Type: audio/x-mp3
Hits: 430 Hits

MUSEUM HOURS

  • CLOSED
  • CLOSED
  • CLOSED
  • CLOSED
  • 11:00AM - 4:00PM
  • 11:00AM - 4:00PM
  • CLOSED

Thousands of FREE Downloads

Suspense 481014 311 A Little Piece of Rope

Phil Harris & Alice Faye 500305 Saving Marjorie from Her Lov

LA450108 - Phinus Helps Abner in Store [331]

The Whistler 500409 410 Dark Voyage

LR420121 - Murder Wears Skirts