Moments In Time takes you back to the historical moments that helped change the world.CBS World News Roundup 3/13/38 The CBS World News Roundup began on March 13, 1938, as a

response to growing tensions in Europe. The initial broadcast was

hosted by veteran newscaster Robert Trout, with short-wave reports

from Paris, Berlin, Rome, London and Vienna.

Two of the newer, more memorable voices heard on that first broadcast

were Edward R. Murrow and William L. Shirer. During the years of

war that followed, Murrowâs reports from London and Shirerâs

reports from Berlin became essential listening for Americans concerned

about events taking place overseas.

Moments In Time takes you back to the historical moments that help change the world.NBCB March Of Time 2/3/38March of Time with narrator and dramatized news events produced by Roy Larsen, who later became president of Time, Inc. First

heard on CBS on March 6, 1931, the show was broadcast on Friday nights

and sounded very much like the movie newsreels. Like the newsreels, the

show was built around a narrator who lead listeners into the dramatized

events. Of narrators, there were three during the shows run: Ted

Husing, Harry Von Zell and one of the longest "voice of Time" was

Westbrook Van Voorhis (pictured left).

actors imitating the actual voices. Many listeners thought the actual

voices were being heard. During those early years, we heard "Adolph

Hitler" "Edward VIII" and "Bruno Hauptmann" among others. The actors

were chosen for these roles based on their ability to closely duplicate

the actual person. Sometimes an actor was required to listen from a

library of records with 30-second soundbites of the actual personality,

or view the March of Time's newsreels and listen to the

voice.Many of the actors went on to other fame including Agnes

Moorhead, Nancy Kelly, Jeannette Nolan, Art Carney, Orson Welles, Peter

Donald, Edwin Jerome, Maurice Tarplin, Kenny Delmar, John McIntire and

many more. Source, Jim Widner, http://www.otr.com/

Moments In Time takes you back to the historical moments that help change the world.Sir Winston Churchill speech, "The Treat of Nazi Germany" 11/16/34The most depressing time in Winston Churchill's long life was the

1930s. It was a period during which he clearly saw the approaching Nazi

danger and during which his speeches -- in fact his greatest -- warned

a heedless polity of its reckless course.What separated Churchill from his

contemporaries was his recognition from 1933 on that Nazi Germany

represented a terrifying strategic and moral danger. It was in that

dark combination, he believed, that the rights, traditions, and

fundamental beliefs of Western civilization were already under assault.

In July 1934, Churchill wrote in the Daily Mail:

I marvel at the complacency of ministers in

the face of the frightful experiences through which we have all so

newly passed. I look with wonder upon the thoughtless crowds disporting

themselves in the summer sunshine, and upon this unheeding House of

Commons, which seems to have no higher function than to cheer a

Minister; [and all the while across the North Sea], a terrible process

is astir. Germany is arming.

Moments In Time presents events that changed the world,President Kennedy arrived in Berlin on June 26, 1963, following appearances in Bonn, Cologne and Frankfurt, where he had given speeches to huge, wildly cheering crowds. In Berlin, an immense crowd gathered in the Rudolph Wilde Platz near the Berlin Wall to listen to the President who delivered this memorable speech above all the noise, concluding with the now famous ending.Twenty four years laster President Reagan come to Berlin and delivers the speech that changed the world for ever."Tear down this wall" was the famous challenge from United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall.In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate, by the Berlin Wall, on June 12, 1987, Reagan challenged Gorbachev, who then was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to tear it down as a symbol of his desire for increasing freedom in the Soviet bloc. Although the wall was technically the responsibility of the East German government, the United States considered East Germany to be a Soviet puppet state.Reagan delivered the "Tear down this wall" speech, written by presidential speech writer Peter Robinson, despite objections from both the State Department and the National Security Council. Deputy National Security Advisor (and future Secretary of State) Colin Powell was one of the administration's major opponents of the speech. The most famous words of the speech were:Ãïï     General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

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