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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1939: Panelists Paul Taylor, David H. Popper and John C. Dewilder respond to the question, "Can Germany Be Appeased?" The program is broadcast from the Foreign Policy Association.
1945: A Goldman Band concert in Central Park features the Overture to Mozart's Magic Flute and other works.
1953: Signing of Korean truce at Panmunjon. Spot news and analysis by broadcasters from around the world. Speeches from President Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, Dag Hammarskjold, Henry Cabot Lodge and Lester B. Pearson.
1964: James Farmer, Bayard Rustin, Cleveland Robinson and Basil Patterson discuss 'the Harlem riots,' on Who Speaks for Harlem?
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Veterans' Day 1927 - Madison Sq. Park
Mayor James J. Walker delivering his Armistice Day speech, November 11, 1927 at the Eternal Light Memorial in Madison Square Park and over WNYC. The 'Great War' (World War I) had only ended nine years earlier and was still very much in the minds of Americans. ( WNYC Archive Collections)
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LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS
Henry Allen, American - Early Black Serial
"Broadcast over WNYC from October 8 to November 12, [1944] Henry Allen, American was an early attempt to create an African-American serial. The title played off the name recognition of the popular white comedy The Aldrich Family with the teen hero Henry Aldrich. This black program followed Henry Allen, a black youth, and 'the pathos, humor, events...that Henry and his family are confronted with.' The series, like most dramatic black shows, could not find a sponsor, and aired only six times."
Source: Ryan, Ellett, Encyclopedia of Black Radio in the United States, 1921-1955, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, 2012. pg. 80. Ellett cites WNYC Files at the New York Amsterdam News, November 25, 1944, p. 8B.
Note: This merits some further research. Since there were no commercial sponsors on WNYC, perhaps it was a question of getting an institutional sponsor if the station at that time didn't have enough internal resources to the keep the show on the air. Unfortunately, we have not yet located any lacquer discs of this program. Since most programs during WWII would have been cut on glass-based aluminum transcription discs (if the shows were recorded at all), their survival rate would not be great..
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