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Posted on 06/05/2004 7:57:09 PM PDT by First_Salute
The website Rat Patrol Radio, in combination with the website Live365, will re-broadcast the actual radio news stories that were originally broadcast on June 6, 1944 regarding the D-Day landings.
In the words of the Rat Patrol Radio website's Torgen Magnusson:
Rat Patrol Radio is proud to present our fourth annual D Day Special Broadcast, consisting of the complete broadcast day of June 6, 1944, airing at the same time of day originally recorded. Whatever time of day you tune in, you will hear what was on the radio at that same time of day 60 years ago. This special broadcast begins at 2:30AM June 6, 2004 (GMT -5.)
This broadcast never fails to produce goosebumps. Listen in the early hours of the morning, as the realization that the Liberation of Europe has begun, and the reporter behind the desk takes the mic and walks over to the teletype machines bringing news from Europe, reading straight from them as they print out. Listen as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation live on the radio, and leads the American people in a prayer for their loved ones fighting on the beaches of Normandy for the fate of the world.
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Thank you for telling us. Our family will be listening.
You bet.
For those with XM radio chanel 04 is doing the same thing, broadcasting the original newsreports in real time for I think 36 hours starting after midnight.
It starts after midnight, is that EST?
Thats CDT
Thanks.
Thanks!
John has a long moustache.
From XM's website
D-Day Invasion of Western Europe
The 40s - XM 4
12:41AM ET
On the 60th Anniversary of this major WWII battle, the 40's Channel presents a special 40-hour real time radio news coverage of the invasion. Beginning with the first bulletin at 12:41 AM on June 6th, 1944, and following through the next day, you won't want to miss this dramatic radio event.
It will be interesting to comapre and (mostly) contrast the coverage with todays media histrionics
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Sure.
There has been a broadcast from Germany, intercepted by shortwave radio, indicating attacks by the Allies on France.
Followed by an Allied broadcast, that "the long expected invasion has begun."
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It will make you sick. The contrast is striking. Back then the Networks actually wanted America to win the war,
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