Elmer Davis and the News
The Dullest Day of the War
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Elmer Davis and the News presents a news broadcast led by journalist and commentator Elmer Davis. The program offers a contemporary radio perspective on events in the headlines, with Davis’s reporting and commentary at its center.
This recording is dated October 7, 1939, and is titled “The Dullest Day of the War.” Its subject and title place the broadcast in the early months of World War II, when listeners followed developments in Europe through radio news and analysis.
The experience is that of a period news program rather than a fictional drama: a direct, spoken account shaped by the urgency and uncertainty of events as they were unfolding. Davis’s measured delivery gives the broadcast a clear, journalistic focus.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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