Today we have three segments. First, two news updates as U.S. and Soviet troops meet in Germany. There is also a brief report on rumors of a German surrender.

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Today we have Lowell Thomas & the News, as it aired over NBC on April 24, 1945. Hugh Gibson substitutes for Thomas on this broadcast.

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Today we have a few broadcasts from this week in 1945. First, an April 21 update from the BBC on Soviet victories in Berlin. Then, from NBC, an April 22 update from Drew Pearson. We end with an April 22 report from the CBC on the conditions in Holland.

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Today we have several brief broadcasts from this week in 1945. First is Harry Truman’s April 16 address to Congress following the death of FDR. That is followed by brief news updates from first the CBC and then CBS from April 17.

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Today’s episode features broadcasts from April 13. First, you’ll hear coverage of the arrival of the funeral train that brought thepresident from Warm Springs to Washington, D.C., and the procession from the train station to the White House. That is followed by an address from Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., delivering a speech his father had written for the United Nations conference and planned to deliver on April 13.

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Eighty years ago today, U.S President Franklin Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia, stunning the nation and the world. Today, we have two episodes memorializing that pivotal event.

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Eighty years ago today, U.S President Franklin Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia, stunning the nation and the world. Today, we have two episodes memorializing that pivotal event.

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Today we have the April 8, 1945, edition of CBS World News Today. It includes analysis and updates on the war, with reports from Paris, Germany, London, Moscow, Washington, and New York.

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Today we have a report from Edward Ward of the BBC on the Buchenwald concentration camp. He describes the situation there as he arrives on site a week after the liberation of the camp.

Today we have the April 1, 1945, edition of NBC’s News of the World, as the news breaks of the invasion of Okinawa. There are also updates on the war in Europe.

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