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I know one of my hackers must be black (or close to one of the Grosses) as they criticized me for liking Welles' Othello. Of course, they had no idea that Welles... -- Dated Billie Holiday who had nothing but very glowing things to say about him. -- Was VERY unpopular due to his using his radio show to help hunt down a racist cop who beat an innocent black man blind. -- Put on an all-black production of Macbeth which also made him unpopular as white actors wanted those jobs. -- Only portrayed Othello because during that time it was the norm for white actors to portray Othello in black face.

What a treasure! It is now May 2024 and this fine transcript from seventy-five years ago has exceptional clarity. With no script, Al Jolson and Steve Allen created excellent entertainment. The first time I recall hearing Steve Allen on the radio was when he was the summer replacement in 1950 for "Our Miss Brooks" on KNX/CBS in Los Angeles.

94 years ago as of 2024

"a member of some master race or other.." what a mensch <3 Boy was he ever right about the mobs too. I need to say "rejoice in the wholesome practicabilities of the profit system" more often too.

Yay! :) this is going into my radio play list! I can't wait to see more from your channel, I just subscribed.😊

Jolson kept right up with Steve Allen with the ad-libs. Great to hear Jolson in a more relaxed setting.

1:35:00 + that's life

There is two reasons you could be watching this . if you know you know

Wow look at how family time together looked 😊

Coca-Cola's peak domination in media and industry!

The CBS top-of-the-hour cue tone goes back as far as 1951, or even further???

There would very soon be German U Boats stalking the southeast US coast after this speech aired. Never mind Iceland and Greenland.

"This face was made for a radio"

I wanted to hear why the contacdictory employment and unemployment figures jived.

WTF Where is subtitles?

I wish we could go back to reporting like this. They knew what a fact was, and didn't belittle it

Orson Welles' commentary on the sorry state of race relations in mid-1940s America is well worth a listen. I hadn't realized how outspoken he was on that issue then, a full decade before what historians consider the start of the modern American Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, AL! All his many vanities and eccentricities aside, that man was a free-thinking humanist who was never afraid to speak out when he saw injustice and cruelty done to fellow man!

My father’s cousin, my first cousin once removed, was a tank commander Staff Sergeant in the 3rd armored spearhead from Normandy. He was KIA in France on August 3rd 1944. His tank was hit by a panzerfust. One other crewman was killed, one escaped, one was captured.

Awesome i need a OLD radio to listen to even today just something about a OLD radio makes any program or ballgame sound much more exciting.

I remember that during stays in Yucatan, visiting family as a teen, a station did scheduled reruns of a 1940s Cuban Comedy, "La Tremenda Corte" (The Terrible Court). Also Mexico City's XEW had a repeater station on the frequency of what used to be the second oldest station in Merida (XEZ, founded around 1931) and in the evenings the Mexico City station would play records and tapes of old radio shows from the 1940s and 1950s.

i loved every second :)

Forget to remember

At 5.09, Hap Arnold talks about the role of the air forces in the victory in Europe, and he reminds everyone in the midst of rejoicing, that air power again will be decisive in defeating Japan. My father had just finished his tour with the Eighth Air Force flying out of Kimbolton air base in England as a radio operator/gunner in a B-17s. He then was redeployed to California to get ready for the Japanese campaign. Instead, Japan surrendered, he met my mother, married, had three kids and lived a good life in California. He had nightmares for years, but at least he got back alive.

2:22:50 added to my sextape

Leave it to Beaver wasn't a documentary but it sure should have been. That would be my favorite time to be alive.

Nostalgia for a time never lived in.

What the heck! I love listeningo to these type of stuff, but it was really nice to hear that there were news going on over here in Colombia, I didn't knew there was CBS here in Colombia back then, and one tends to believe that nothing happened during ww2 over here. Greettings from Medellin, Colombia

Great listen

Sad that Al died the following year aged only 64.

This made me fall asleep🌚🫡

Just think there was no Elvis, Beatles , or JFK Then .

1:20

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!

back when music used to be GOOD

Alastor my boy

The Video had 50K views when i watched it💀.

i from Brazil

I don't know English very well and I would like to understand what they are saying, that's why I would like subtitles

Can you put subtitles please?

August 13 1944 Crete island the germans killed 25 people in the village called Anogion

I like the comedian in 2:07:51 hes funny

one of the most corrupt? seriously? tell me you don't understand long without telling me you don't understand long

Back then people used to be more authentic., and the man used to be man and the woman used to be a woman

Old is best all y’all young whipper snappers. Get off my lawn

Mafia 2 Vibes

Totally agree with your title😉

The time when men were men.

Where are you?

Hoover wasn't a great President by any means, but his humanitarian work during WWI was exemplary.

When the Academy Awards actually meant something.