The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
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1950–1959 · CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations
The News of the Fifties
The decade as it was broadcast: the bomb, the hearings, the elections, the satellite.
The fifties are the decade in which the definitive account of an event stopped being something you heard and became something you watched, and this shelf is the audio side of that argument: the same hearings, elections, launches and disasters, reported by people who still assumed the listener could not see. The best of it is startlingly good, and none of it is trying to compete with a picture — which is exactly what makes it worth hearing now.
- On radio
- Network and local news broadcasts, as transmitted
- On television
- The same events, carried on both media
- The overlap
- The decade in which the event became something you watched as well as heard
60 recordings · Across the United States
News broadcasts, 1950–1959, from network and local stations, held by the Internet Archive. Dates as given in the recordings. Public domain (US network broadcast, copyright not renewed); no Creative Commons or non-commercial terms apply.
195012
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties
CBS Welcome Back, Baseball Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour
15 Apr 1950 · 29 min
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties
U.N Radio The Doctor and Magdalena Gene Lockhart and Marsha Hunt
7 May 1950 · 19 min
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties
Bob Hope From Long Beach, California Veteran's Hospital Claudette Colbert, Margaret Whitin
12 Dec 1950 · 23 min
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
195113
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties
MBS U.N Radio Windows on the World Douglas Fairbanks, Norman Corwin
4 Nov 1951 · 59 min
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties
NBC Bob Hope Christmas From Long Beach Veteran's Hospital Bing Crosby
25 Dec 1951 · 22 min
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19525
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties
CBS Edward R Murrow Truman Signs Wage And Price Control Bill
30 Jun 1952 · 14 min
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19536
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties
NBC Bob Hope From Long Beach Veteran's Hospital Esther Williams
25 Dec 1953 · 29 min
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19542
The News of the Fifties
Eisenhower Man's Right To Knowledge And It's Free Use Thereof
31 May 1954 · 30 min
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19551
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19564
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19572
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19581
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19591
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Undated recordings13
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
The News of the Fifties, CBS, NBC, Mutual, ABC and local stations. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.