Register of the America's town meeting of the air radio broadcast
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Title: America's town meeting of the air radio broadcast
Date (inclusive): 1945 April 27
Collection Number: XX642
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1 item (2 phonorecords)
(0.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Relates to the founding of the United Nations and its prospective role in ensuring world peace.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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America's town meeting of the air radio broadcast, 1945 April 27, Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Scope and Content of Collection
Relates to the founding of the United Nations and its prospective role in ensuring world peace.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sound recordings
Peace
United Nations
record cabinet
Original sleeve label reads: America's Town Meeting of the Air/San Francisco, California. Civic Auditorium: April 27, 1945 Director and founder: George P. Denny, Jr. 27 April 1945
Use copy reference number: xx642_a_0002840
Undersecretary Joseph C. Grew, Senator Tom Connally of Texas, Harold E. Stassen, Chairman of the Council for Democracy Raymond
Swing, commentator William L. Shirer, and commentator H. V. Kaztenborn discuss setting up the United Nations. The speakers
see the UN as a major step to world law, order, and peace. Some relate the establishment of the UN to the end of the Wild
West in America and as a precursor to world government. Side B label reads: 4 Station KGO Freq 810 Date 4/27/45 Time 8:30
PM Program Town Meeting Language Eng.