CBS World News Today – May 20, 1945

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Robert Trout

CBS World News Today

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles and the occasional radio broadcast delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Postwar reports from Paris London, Rome. An interview with a sailor from the U.S.S. Franklin, returned to New York after being hit by a kamikaze off Okinawa. A report from San Francisco on the U.N. conference. Something is going on in Tangier. At this critical time severe droughts in the western hemisphere is hampering food production. And so on.

To listen to the broadcast click on the link below.

CBS World News Today, May 20, 1945

[MeshugeMikey]

At this critical time severe droughts in the western hemisphere is hampering food production

1945? I thought this drought thing was NEW?...../

[Old Sarge]

An interview with a sailor from the U.S.S. Franklin, returned to New York after being hit by a kamikaze off Okinawa.

I remember seeing pics of that - the Franklin burned like a British chick on the beach!

[Gator113]

My grandfather would have still been serving aboard a battleship while this was being broadcasted, while my grandmother would have been listening to this on her radio. I wouldn’t have been born for a couple more years.

I am also loving the commercials. ;>)