Elmer Davis and the News
Invasion Alerts in the Netherlands
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Elmer Davis and the News presents a news broadcast led by journalist and commentator Elmer Davis. The program offers a direct, spoken account of current events, with Davis’s reporting and commentary at its center.
This recording is dated May 9, 1940, and its listed subject is invasion alerts in the Netherlands. It offers a snapshot of wartime news coverage as events in Europe were unfolding, delivered in the concise format of a radio news program.
Davis’s clear, measured delivery gives the broadcast the feel of a contemporary report rather than a later historical retelling. Listeners can hear how urgent international developments were presented to a radio audience at the time.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.