Tuesday
Three o'clock in London, nine in the morning in New York
Churchill announced it at three, the King at nine in the evening, and Truman — on his sixty-first birthday — proclaimed victory in Europe to America before breakfast on the East Coast.
Opening the day…
The night of
Morning ET
Truman broadcast the proclamation of victory in Europe from the White House at nine in the morning Eastern, timed to Churchill's three o'clock in London. NBC carried the proclamations and commentary; the CBS eleven o'clock news is in the archive as broadcast. In Ottawa, Mackenzie King addressed Canada.
Afternoon, London
Churchill announced the unconditional surrender of Germany from Downing Street, then spoke again from the Ministry of Health balcony to a crowd in Whitehall. Howard Marshall reported the celebrations for the BBC; Murrow described Piccadilly Circus for CBS. Montgomery asked listeners to remember those who gave their lives.
Evening
George VI broadcast to the Empire at nine in the evening London time — carried in America on NBC Blue — followed by the national anthem and the royal family on the balcony. Gabriel Heatter did News of the World on Mutual to an American audience that still had Japan in front of it, which is the thing every one of these recordings is careful to say.
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