Bulletin1933–1944
The Fireside Chats
FDR turned the radio set into a room in the White House.
Carried by
CBS · NBC · Mutual (pool)
On file
16
Internet ArchivePublic domain
The Radio Planet presents
A Centuryon the Air
Seven moments the twentieth century turned on, each assembled from the recordings that actually survive — network by network, hour by hour, in the order they went out. Nothing dramatised, nothing reconstructed. Only what was transmitted.
441
Recordings
11
Moments
538h
Of audio
1923–1984
Years covered
The dateline
Seven days worth standing inside
Bulletin6 May 1937
The Hindenburg
The first time American radio broadcast a recording of a disaster.
Carried by
WLS Chicago · Disc recording
On file
2
Internet ArchivePublic domain
Bulletin30 October 1938
The War of the Worlds
One Halloween broadcast, and the whole 1938 season around it.
Carried by
CBS
On file
20
Internet ArchivePublic domain
Bulletin12–17 April 1945
The Death of Roosevelt
The networks cancelled everything and stayed on for four days.
Carried by
CBS · US network pool · NBC · …
On file
25
Internet ArchivePublic domain
Bulletin14 August – 2 September 1945
V-J Day
Forty-nine recordings from the hours the news broke.
Carried by
US network pool · CBS · NBC · …
On file
49
Internet ArchivePublic domain
Bulletin22–25 November 1963
Four Days in November
The four days that made television and radio the national nervous system.
Carried by
Dallas Police Department · KLIF Dallas · Network pool · …
On file
18
Internet ArchivePublic domain
Bulletin16–24 July 1969
Apollo 11
One hundred and twenty-three recordings from the flight and the broadcasts around it.
Carried by
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center · Time-Life Records · NASA onboard recorder · …
On file
123
Internet ArchivePublic domain
Bulletin1934–1963
The World Series
A hundred and seventeen surviving World Series broadcasts, game by game, from Dizzy Dean's Cardinals to Koufax at Yankee Stadium.
Carried by
Network radio (World Series pool)
On file
117
Internet ArchivePublic domain
Bulletin1923–1953
The Crown on the Air
The abdication, two coronations, a princess in Cape Town and a king on V-E night — the surviving royal broadcasts.
Carried by
BBC · BBC / SABC relay · BBC Home Service
On file
17
Internet ArchivePublic domain
Bulletin1932–1968
Election Nights
Conventions, concessions, campaign discs and the first debate — nine presidential cycles as they sounded.
Carried by
Documentary · Network pool · Convention floor · …
On file
32
Internet ArchivePublic domain
Bulletin1927–1970
Disaster and the Wire
Flight, fire, flood and blackout — the broadcasts that taught radio how to cover catastrophe.
Carried by
FCDA syndication · KDKA Pittsburgh · Documentary · …
On file
22
Internet ArchivePublic domain
Provenance
Every recording on these pages is a surviving transmission held by the Internet Archive, the US National Archives or NASA, and is in the public domain. Dates, networks and durations are taken from the archives’ own metadata. Where the archive cannot date a reel, we say so rather than guess.