These two men were located in two offices, approximately fifty feet apart, in the Long Lines Building at 32 Sixth Ave, New York City, but the telephone circuit stretched approximately 23,000 miles around the world.
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"We shall honor him in the best way that lies open to us - and in the way he would want it to be - by getting on with the everlasting search for peace and justice for which all mankind is praying."
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Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, address urging more Americans to take jobs in shipyards and to buy more war bonds.
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Interview of Colonel Albert Trakowski, USAF (Ret), project officer for USAF Project Mogul from Watson Laboratories in 1947 stationed at Roswell AFB, New Mexico.
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"One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind."
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Discussion between the Apollo 13 crew and Houston after an explosion, resulting from a problem with an oxygen tank.
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A documentary of the new battle cry in the Civil Rights movement in America.
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Jennings Randolph, Congressman from West Virginia, and chairman of the House District Committee, congratulating the French people on the liberation of Paris.
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Corp. John F. Barctek relating the rescue of himself, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, and other crewmembers of a Flying Fortress after they had drifted for 22 days on a raft in the Pacific.
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Coverage of Malcolm X Observance
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General Douglas MacArthur presides over the surrender ceremony aboard the battleship U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, as Japan signs the surrender documents formally ending World War II.
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Physicist speaks of atomic bomb; Alfred Bernhard Noble; war is won, but peace is not; and Jewish situation.
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Discusses flying saucers and other unidentified flying objects, future space travel, and recommendations for establishment of a coordinating Government agency for space exploration.
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In his annual St. Patrick's Day radio message to the American people, Prime Minister of Ireland Eamon de Valera reviews the plight of the Irish people and their efforts to reconstruct the economy, and he protests the continued partition of his country.
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Statement recorded by Dr. Albert Einstein at Princeton University for broadcast during the Student World Government rally at Northwestern University, Chicago.
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Ernest Hemingway About the Loneliness of the Writer
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Interview with a woman identified as "Miss Palchikoff," a medical missionary born in Russia in 1922, who was living in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945.
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Special radio report to the American people by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes on the progress of the Paris Peace Conference.
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Debate between Association of Manufacturers and Office of Price Administration. La Guardia departs frequently from the role of moderator to rebut the NAM position.
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Astronaut John Glenn discusses his orbital space flight in the Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7. He focuses on the effects of the flight on his emotions and mental health.
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General Matthew Ridgeway in an address to a joint session of the Congress on his return from the Far East as Supreme Commander of U.N. forces.
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Midnight press conference in the office of Secretary of Interior Julius A. Krug after a day of futile negotiations between labor and management in the coal industry.
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In a radio message broadcast overseas, Senator Arthur Vandenburg, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, reassures the Greek people that the United States will not permit the Communists to take over their country.
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Harriet Elliot, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Division, OPA, explaining to women how to conserve products needed for the war effort.
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Senator Hubert Humphrey interviewed on the "Longines Chronoscope" program by Edgar Baker, managing director of Time-Life International and Henry Hazlitt, on his recent victory in securing tax reform legislation and on patronage in the IRS.
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Ignace Jan Paderewski, President of the Council of Poland and former Prime Minister of Poland, public service broadcast urging Americans to buy U.S. defense savings bonds and discussing his experience in war-torn Europe, and the German invasion of Poland.
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"What are the planning goals of the Women's Liberation Movement?"
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In his annual Christmas message to the British Commonwealth, King George VI reviews the privations of the war years, the difficulties of postwar adjustment, and adds words of encouragement to his subjects.
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Ensign Jack Seigal, USN, reports during a Marine landing. Includes interviews with the Navy beachmaster and other personnel.
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A speech given by Secretary of State George Marshall; he outlines a program of financial help to war-torn Europe.
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"National Security in Relation to the World Situation," address by General Lucius Clay before the State Dinner of the Southern Governors' Conference, Charleston, SC. Introduced by former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes.
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J. William Fulbright, Congressman from Arkansas and U.S. delegate to the Conference of Allied Ministers of Education, speaking of Nazi destruction of educational facilities, in conquered conutries, the need to help conquered peoples.
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Press conference by General Lucius Clay on his return from commanding U.S. occupation forces in Germany. Clay answers questions on the status of Germany, especially relative to the Soviet threat, and expresses the opinion that American troops should stay
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"I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British, instead of the other way 'round, I might have got here on my own."
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Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, British author and historian, interviewed on the "Longines Chronoscope" program by Larry leSueur and August Heckscher of the New York Herald Tribune.
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"This was the moment of Truth." Remarks by Jesse Owens at the Olympic Games
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A radio dramatization by the OPA explaining rationing, price controls, and their purposes.
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Stokely Carmichael News Conference
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Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, speech at Memorial Day ceremony, Arlington National Cemetary: "None of us can dare to do less than his full part in the common effort."
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"The Attack on Korea," a speech by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, delivered from the grounds of the Washington Monument: "On this Independence Day, our thoughts are irresistably drawn to Korea...
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"The Executions at Nuremberg," report by correspondent Arthur Gaeth for the combined American radio networks. Gaeth describes the previous tour of the city prison and witnessing the deaths on the gallows of convicted Nazi war criminals.
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Featured are actual recordings of jet combat and airborne assaults on North Korea, naval bombardment of Wonsan, retreat of Task Force Smith from the 38th parallel, etc.
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Grover Whalen introduces Trygve Lie. Lie resolves to make the Charter function despite the first appearances of big power frictions in the organization.
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An address to the Overseas Press Club by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, from the Waldorf-Astoria's Grand Ballroom.
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This sound recording captures Thomas Edison as he spoke on the speed and ingenuity of science as it moved ahead with work and revolutionized civilization.
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Secretary of State Cordell Hull, "Trade, Prosperity and Peace," an address on the reciprocal trade program.
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Adlai Stevenson, representing the US, and Ambassador Zorin, president of Security Council, speak before the United Nations regarding Cuban crisis.
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Combat actuality recording made by war correspondent Wes MacPheron as he accompanied the 187th Regimental Combat Team during an airbonre assault on Munsan-ni, North Korea.
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Warren Austin, U.S. Senator from Vermont, speaking on world peace, following the World Security Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
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Secretary of State Cordell Hull, "What America is Fighting For," an address on U.S. war aims.
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A broadcast by General Omar Bradley from Akron, Ohio. Bradley cites the recent detonation of a nuclear weapon by the Soviet Union and attempts to assess its impact on American policy.
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"Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only one question: When will I be blown up?..."
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Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Status of the War in Vietnam.
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Documents a speech given by Winston Churchill at the occasion of his receipt of an honorary degree from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
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Mr. Herbert Morrison's famous account of the dirigible Hindenburg crash. The explosion caused the cutting head of the single Presto portable recorder to vibrate, resulting in a shallow grove, just as Morrison declares, "It's burst into flames!"
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