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Audio recordings constitute the definitive record of radio broadcasts, lectures, and oral histories produced during the twentieth century. Highlights include sound recordings of Cold War radio; Ronald Reagan radio addresses; the NSZZ Solidarity movement; and the signing of the United Nations Charter. Formats include phonograph discs, open-reel tapes, cassettes, digital tape media, optical discs, and digital files.
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Founding conference of the United Nations, 1945
US radio broadcasting organization
US government agency monitoring foreign radio broadcasts during World War II
Private nonprofit for the study of public issues based in San Francisco
International organization of laissez-faire economists
US economist
Radio series featuring Ronald Reagan, 1975–79
Economists associated with the University of Chicago
US historian; interviews of women veterans of the Chinese Long March
Polish trade union and political movement
Jim Sam, Hoover audio engineer: "For some, audio preservation is a black art, and I am not going to help that...." Read more.
A sound recording of N. N. (Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich) Poppe talking about the Akademiia Nauk SSSR (Soviet Academy of Sciences) can now be listened to in the Hoover Archives reading room.
The entire collection of audiotapes at Hoover created by RFE/RL’s Belarus Service has been digitized for preservation and access. Use copies of the recordings are available for listening at the Hoover Archives.
