Transferred from the Internet Archive item 'CommandPerformance' (public domain).
Vintage
American History Through the Eyes of Radio
Syndicated
Syndicated · 1933–1974
112 EpisodesFortnightlyPGSince 1933
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1933–1974
- Surviving broadcasts
- 112
- Genre
- news
Through the magic of radio this unique collection of shows captures American History like no other medium can. From dramatizations of events prior to the formation of the United States and our fight for freedom from England through manifest destiny and our push to the Pacific Ocean.
1974 · 21945 · 81944 · 231943 · 12
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 1 of 45Rough but complete · 44 of 45
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_American_History_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
20 dated broadcasts across 42 years on the air, with 38 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1943, in original transmission order.
- 1. 0828 CBS World News Today · 28 Aug 1943
- 2. 0828 John W Vandercook · 28 Aug 1943
- 3. 0829 CBS World News Today · 29 Aug 1943
0808 Nixon Resigns
8 Aug 1974 · 5 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 8 August 1974. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
0808 Nixon's Final Presidential Speech
8 Aug 1974 · 1h 39m
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 8 August 1974. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
1225 1945 in Review
25 Dec 1945 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 25 December 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
0826 CBS World News Today
26 Aug 1945 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 26 August 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
0812 CBS World News Today
12 Aug 1945 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 12 August 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
0729 CBS World News Today
29 Jul 1945 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 29 July 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
0728 Plane Hits Empire State Building
28 Jul 1945 · 5 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 28 July 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
0708 CBS World News Today
8 Jul 1945 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 8 July 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
25 Dec 1945
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 25 Dec 1945.
Transferred from the Internet Archive item 'CommandPerformance' (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1933–1974
Other series the network carried while American History Through the Eyes of Radio was on the air.
Same seasons
news on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The broadcast desk
Wartime correspondence and Cavalcade of America established the daily explainer and the narrated history hour long before either had a feed.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
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