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Audio recordings constitute the definitive record of radio broadcasts, lectures, and oral histories produced during the twentieth century. Highlights include sound recordings of Cold War radio; Ronald Reagan radio addresses; the NSZZ Solidarity movement; and the signing of the United Nations Charter. Formats include phonograph discs, open-reel tapes, cassettes, digital tape media, optical discs, and digital files.
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Founding conference of the United Nations, 1945
US radio broadcasting organization
US government agency monitoring foreign radio broadcasts during World War II
Private nonprofit for the study of public issues based in San Francisco
International organization of laissez-faire economists
US economist
Radio series featuring Ronald Reagan, 1975–79
Economists associated with the University of Chicago
US historian; interviews of women veterans of the Chinese Long March
Polish trade union and political movement
Jim Sam, Hoover audio engineer: "For some, audio preservation is a black art, and I am not going to help that...." Read more.
Westerners have been intrigued by the Kaifeng Jews since the 1600s. A set of sound recordings of interviews with Chinese Jews, recorded in Kaifeng, China, in 1985, has just been digitized by the Hoover Archives.
More than fifty audiotapes in the Jan Karski papers have been digitally reformatted for preservation and access by the Hoover Archives.
Listening copies of many spoken-word recordings are now available in the Hoover Archives reading room.
A substantial collection of digitized audio interviews of more than one hundred Latin American leaders is available for listening in the Hoover Archives reading room.
An ambitious project to box, label, and accurately count the 80,000 seven-inch open-reel audiotapes in the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) broadcast records is complete.
The entire collection of audiotapes created by RFE’s Serbo-Croatian Language Service has been digitized for preservation and access. Use copies of the recordings are available for listening at the Hoover Archives.
A list of audio programs in Milton Friedman’s extensive Economics Cassette Series (ECS), 1969–78, is now available (click here and then scroll down to box 103).
Listening copies of many spoken-word recordings are now available in the Hoover Archives reading room.
Listening copies of spoken word and musical recordings from World War II and the postwar years are now available in the Hoover Archives reading room.
