Transmission
12 April
1945
CBS World News
Bill Henry Reports On Order Of Succession
Network
CBS World News
Running time
11 min
Broadcast 1945-04-12. CBS World News.
← The Radio War
12 April 1945
The Death of Roosevelt
Networks dropped commercial programming entirely. The funeral train was described live as it moved north.
39 recordings · 7 broadcasters · 14 days
Who carried it
12 April 1945
Transmission
12 April
1945
CBS World News
Bulletin Reports FDR Is Dead
Network
CBS World News
Running time
1 min
Broadcast 1945-04-12. CBS World News.
Transmission
12 April
1945
Transmission
12 April
1945
CBS World News
Don Fisher Coverage Following FDRs Death
Network
CBS World News
Running time
21 min
Broadcast 1945-04-12. CBS World News.
Transmission
12 April
1945
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
Fiorello La Guardia On FDR
Network
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
Running time
9 min
Broadcast 1945-04-12. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations.
Transmission
12 April
1945
Mutual Broadcasting System
Fulton Lewis Reports FDRs Death
Network
Mutual Broadcasting System
Running time
1 min
Broadcast 1945-04-12. Mutual Broadcasting System.
Transmission
12 April
1945
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
News Death Of FDR CBS ABC
Network
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
Running time
14 min
Broadcast 1945-04-12. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations.
13 April 1945
Transmission
13 April
1945
CBS World News
Memorial Services For Franklin D Roosevelt
Network
CBS World News
Running time
15 min
Broadcast 1945-04-13. CBS World News.
Transmission
13 April
1945
Transmission
13 April
1945
BBC Home Service
News Dora Bateman Commentary On FDRs Death
Network
BBC Home Service
Running time
4 min
Broadcast 1945-04-13. BBC Home Service.
Transmission
13 April
1945
NBC News
Reports On FDRs Funeral Train
Network
NBC News
Running time
13 min
Broadcast 1945-04-13. NBC News.
Transmission
13 April
1945
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
Undelivered FDR Speech Given by FDR Jr
Network
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
Running time
5 min
Broadcast 1945-04-13. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations.
14 April 1945
Transmission
14 April
1945
The National Archives Collection
Description Of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Funeral Train And Procession
Network
The National Archives Collection
Running time
2h 3m
"This sound recording captures a National Broadcasting Company (NBC) correspondent's report of the arrival of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral train at Union Station, Washington, DC, and the procession from Union Plaza down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House."National Archives Identifier: 2353526
15 April 1945
Transmission
15 April
1945
CBS World News
Edward Murrow On Buchenwald
Network
CBS World News
Running time
10 min
Broadcast 1945-04-15. CBS World News.
Transmission
15 April
1945
CBS World News
Edward R Murrow A Report from London
Network
CBS World News
Running time
10 min
Broadcast 1945-04-15. CBS World News.
Transmission
15 April
1945
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
New World a Coming 43 Memorial to Franklin D Roosevelt
Network
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
Running time
29 min
Broadcast 1945-04-15. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations.
Transmission
15 April
1945
Transmission
15 April
1945
Transmission
15 April
1945
CBS World News
World News Today
Network
CBS World News
Running time
25 min
Broadcast 1945-04-15. CBS World News.
16 April 1945
Transmission
16 April
1945
The National Archives Collection
Address Of Harry S. Truman At His First Official Appearance Before Congress As President
Network
The National Archives Collection
Running time
30 min
National Archives Identifier: 2353528
Transmission
16 April
1945
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
President Truman Addesses Congress After FDRs Funeral
Network
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
Running time
6 min
Broadcast 1945-04-16. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations.
17 April 1945
Transmission
17 April
1945
CBC Wartime Service
Canadian Army Repels Desperate Germans
Network
CBC Wartime Service
Running time
4 min
Broadcast 1945-04-17. CBC Wartime Service.
Transmission
17 April
1945
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
President Truman On The Death Of President Roosevelt
Network
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
Running time
3 min
Broadcast 1945-04-17. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations.
Transmission
17 April
1945
CBS World News
This Is My Best I Will Not Go Back FDR
Network
CBS World News
Running time
28 min
Broadcast 1945-04-17. CBS World News.
18 April 1945
Transmission
18 April
1945
CBS World News
Ernie Pyle Killed In Action
Network
CBS World News
Running time
1 min
Broadcast 1945-04-18. CBS World News.
19 April 1945
Transmission
19 April
1945
BBC Home Service
Belsen Richard Dimbleby
Network
BBC Home Service
Running time
11 min
Broadcast 1945-04-19. BBC Home Service.
Transmission
19 April
1945
BBC Home Service
Richard Dimbleby Reports From Belsen
Network
BBC Home Service
Running time
1 min
Broadcast 1945-04-19. BBC Home Service.
20 April 1945
Transmission
20 April
1945
CBC Wartime Service
Allied POWs Free At Last RCAF Warren Wilkes
Network
CBC Wartime Service
Running time
3 min
Broadcast 1945-04-20. CBC Wartime Service.
21 April 1945
Transmission
21 April
1945
BBC Home Service
Red Army Set To Enter Berlin
Network
BBC Home Service
Running time
1 min
Broadcast 1945-04-21. BBC Home Service.
22 April 1945
Transmission
22 April
1945
CBC Wartime Service
Hollland Famine Peter Peter Stursberg
Network
CBC Wartime Service
Running time
4 min
Broadcast 1945-04-22. CBC Wartime Service.
Transmission
22 April
1945
Transmission
22 April
1945
23 April 1945
Transmission
23 April
1945
CBC Wartime Service
This Country Of Unspeakable Evil Matthew Halton
Network
CBC Wartime Service
Running time
9 min
Broadcast 1945-04-23. CBC Wartime Service.
24 April 1945
Transmission
24 April
1945
CBC Wartime Service
Spies And Refugees In Allied Territory
Network
CBC Wartime Service
Running time
2 min
Broadcast 1945-04-24. CBC Wartime Service.
Transmission
24 April
1945
BBC Home Service
Wynford Vaughan Thomas Reports On Bucholz Hall Of Honor
Network
BBC Home Service
Running time
3 min
Broadcast 1945-04-24. BBC Home Service.
25 April 1945
Transmission
25 April
1945
BBC Home Service
Edward Ward Reports From Link Up Lunch At Elbe
Network
BBC Home Service
Running time
1 min
Broadcast 1945-04-25. BBC Home Service.
Transmission
25 April
1945
BBC Home Service
Freddy Grisewood Frank Gillard at Torgau Elbe
Network
BBC Home Service
Running time
1 min
Broadcast 1945-04-25. BBC Home Service.
Transmission
25 April
1945
The National Archives Collection
Harry S. Truman's Address To The Opening Of The San Francisco Conference Drafting The United Nation's Charter
Network
The National Archives Collection
Running time
12 min
"This sound recording captures a broadcast made by President Harry S. Truman from the White House to the conference in San Francisco that drafted the United Nation's (U.N.) Charter. On the task facing the new U.N. organization, he said: 'With ever-increasing brutality and destruction, modern warfare, if unchecked, would ultimately crush all civilization....The essence of our problem here is to provide sensible machinery for the settlement of disputes among nations.'"ARC Identifier 2131159
Transmission
25 April
1945
CBC Wartime Service
Has Hitler Fled From Burning Berlin Matthew Halton
Network
CBC Wartime Service
Running time
4 min
Broadcast 1945-04-25. CBC Wartime Service.