A hat tip to my good friend Alan Rowe for pointing me to this link from the Internet Archive.
This is a radio recording from CBS News produced in 1948. It's an interesting, if somewhat strange, premise. Basically - the recording imagines what the Battle of Gettysburg would have sounded like if it was covered by radio reporters. Enjoy!
Battlefield Back Stories - Thoughts on the Civil War, its battlefields, and public history.
Hi, I really liked this post. The CBS broadcast was enjoyable and quirky :-)
ReplyDeleteThis is great. I used to borrow the albums of this show from the library when I was a kid!
ReplyDeleteSpeaker was portrayed in the film, "Good Night and Good Luck...Don Hollenbeck.
ReplyDeleteThis was great, enjoyed it very much..thanks
ReplyDeleteGlad everyone enjoyed it. I will have to look up some other episodes of this show.
ReplyDeleteAMAZING!
ReplyDeleteThere was also a TV series in the mid 50's by the name You are there. The host was Walter Cronkite. I watched nearly every episode; hence, I became a history major in college:)
ReplyDeleteVery intresting and enjoyable--thanks!
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