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Thomas Honsa is an adjunct professor of history at the State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota and Eckerd College, specializing in broadcast history. He has recently finished a research project on American radio’s enthusiasm for the UN in the late 1940s.

Working Magic on the Airwaves in UN Radio’s Heyday

By Thomas Honsa | Jul 13, 2010

March 26, 1950, marked an important day in Americans’ relations with the United Nations. No treaty or agreement was signed, no leader named, no commission formed, just a radio broadcast. That night NBC carried Norman Corwin’s “Document A/777,” a dramatization of the passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Although forgotten today, “Document A/777” was a landmark broadcast, a high point in the career of a great American radio personality, and it exemplifies the vigorous UN presence on contemporary American airwaves and the enthusiastic hope and confidence citizens placed in the UN following World War II.

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