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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