CBS World News Today
Democratic Convention to Nominate Roosevelt
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CBS World News Today presents a news broadcast dated July 17, 1940, with coverage focused on the Democratic convention and its nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The program offers a contemporary radio account of a major moment in American political life, heard in the context of the events as they unfolded.
Listeners can expect a news-oriented presentation rather than a dramatized story: the subject is the convention and the political decision at its center. The broadcast provides a glimpse of how radio brought national developments to audiences in real time, with the immediacy and formal delivery characteristic of period news programming.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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