Elmer Davis and the News
Democratic Convention Opens in Chicago
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Elmer Davis and the News presents a news broadcast led by journalist Elmer Davis. This recording is identified with the Democratic convention opening in Chicago, bringing listeners to a major moment in American political life.
The program offers a contemporary radio account of the day’s news, with Davis’s reporting and commentary at its center. Its focus is the convention and the events surrounding it, rather than a fictional story or dramatic performance.
Listeners can hear the immediacy of a broadcast made as the convention began: a concise window onto the political news and public affairs of the period, delivered in the direct style of radio journalism.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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