RADIO GAGA





 "Radio Ga Ga" is a 1984 song performed and recorded by the British rock band Queen, written by their drummer Roger Taylor. 


https://youtu.be/azdwsXLmrHE 




How to build a foxhole radio:
https://youtu.be/qQOWtUTGGP8?si=OJxmmuY8H_Sr9ZmB



World War II was born nine months after I was born :( 

I had a foxhole radio on my back porch where I listened to FDR, his wife Eleanor, Tokyo Rose and Winnie Churchill 




The actual back porch where I used my foxhole radio in the 1940s:




World War II on the Radio

https://www.otrcat.com/world-war-ii-on-the-radio 

Eleanor Roosevelt: The First Lady of Radio

Franklin D. Roosevelt was a consummate broadcaster but Eleanor Roosevelt was the actual radio professional. During her years in the White House, ER made some 300 radio appearances, about the same number as her husband. But for dozens of those broadcasts she got paid handsome talent fees by advertisers. 


https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2014/11/10/eleanor-roosevelt-the-first-lady-of-radio


Fireside Chats Of Franklin D. Roosevelt

http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/firesi90.html


How 'Tokyo Rose' Became WWII’s Most Notorious Propagandist

Convicted of treason for her infamous “Tokyo Rose” propaganda broadcasts during World War II, American Iva Toguri eventually spent nearly three decades waiting for her name to be cleared.


https://www.history.com/news/how-tokyo-rose-became-wwiis-most-notorious-propagandist


During World War II, American servicemen regularly huddled around radios to listen to the “Zero Hour,” an English-language news and music program that was produced in Japan and beamed out over the Pacific. The Japanese intended for the show to serve as morale-sapping propaganda, but most G.I.s considered it a welcome distraction from the monotony of their duties.

101 Inspiring Winston Churchill Quotes That Touch On Everything—From Politics to Human Nature 

https://parade.com/1034871/marynliles/winston-churchill-quotes/



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