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Historical Audio and Video
   Includes audio of  speeches, news events, and other notable historic recordings.
Hindenburg Crash
  Includes information, audio, and video about the German airship Hindenburg and its crash in New Jersey.

Old Time Radio (see how sound effects were created for Old Time Radio shows)
   General comments on Old Time Radio and listen to audio clips.
   Abbott and Costello (listen to Who's on First)
   I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.
   The Fat Man
  Inner Sanctum Mysteries (includes video clips)
   The Lone Ranger
   The Shadow
   Suspense (includes video clips)
   The Whistler
   Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
   WJSV Schedule (itemized schedule of the historic 1939 recording with sound clips)

Television History:
   Brief TV History (includes significant events of early television)
   Cable TV Ownership (what companies own the broadcast and cable TV we watch)

World War Two:
World War 2 History (includes audio and video from the World War 2 era)
   Neville Chamberlain
   Franklin Delano Roosevelt
   Winston Spenser Churchill
   Eleanor Roosevelt
   Radio News Reports
   Dwight David Eisenhower
   Harry Truman
   Douglas MacArthur
   news clips
   Videos:
   Newsreel of the bombing on Pearl Harbor and sinking of the
   U.S.S. Lafayette (S.S. Normandie)
   Making of the B-29 (includes some footage of Japanese atrocities)
   D-Day movie (D-Day Minus One)
   B-29 Super Fortress "Bockscar"
Atomic Bomb - B-29 Super Fortress "Bockscar" - photographs and a brief synopsis of the plane used for the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Iwo Jima - Brief history of the Battle of Iwo Jima.  Includes the 20-minute documentary To the Shores of Iwo Jima, a video clip of Old Glory being raised over Mount Suribachi, and a short newsreel account describing the event.
Propaganda Posters (lots of U.S. World War II propaganda posters with links to U.K. and German posters)
WW2 War Bonds
   War bond videos to help finance the U.S. effort to defeat the Axis Powers.
   Includes the War Loan movie, Avenge December 7th, that shows the destruction at
   Pearl Harbor.
WW2 Home Front
   Includes many movies produced to mobilize Americans to win the war of tyranny.
Pearl Harbor Today
   A few photographs of the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial and the plaque on the Surrender Deck of the U.S.S. Missouri commemorating the surrender of Japan.
Japan Surrenders
   Photographs and some background information about the Japanese formal surrender to
   Allied Forces aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
 
Cold War
   Includes various videos promoting democracy and capitalism. 
   Audio clip of Ronald Reagan, speaking in Berlin, urging the Berlin Wall be torn
   down.
   Atomic bomb and Civil Defense educational films including Duck and Cover,
   starring Bert the Turtle.
   Cuban Missile Crisis speech clips from President Kennedy and from Adalai
   Stevenson at the U.N.

Favorite Links
Find links to where you can get Old Time Radio shows and other links of interest.

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