General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:3/6

Part of series

HU OSA 300-1-8 Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute: General Records: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Public Affairs Photographic Files

Located at

Archival photo box #3 / No. 6

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_003-006

Legacy ID

rfe_architecture_006

Date

1965

Level

Item

Primary Type

Still image

Language

English

Notes

The black and white prints of RFE/RL were donated to OSA by the Hoover Institute, California in year 2015. The images are duplicates of those held at Hoover. The originals, and most probably the negatives are with the donor as well. OSA only received the paper prints with captions, and digitized the entire collection in year 2018.

Content

Form/Genre

Photograph

Contents Summary

A vast room sparsely furnished with armchairs, coffee tables, settees .On the low tables there are newspapers and ashtrays. A huge neon light is fixed on the ceiling. Above a door the clock reads 35 past 12. On both sides of the door there are huge photographs, the one on the left is a montage of Radio Free Europe transmission facility in Gloria, the right hand side one is the copy of Freedom Bell in Géoria. Cf. HU OSA 300-1-8:3/5.
Freedom Bell was donated to the city of Berlin in the framework of the Crusade for Freedom campaign run by the National Committee for a Free Europe, the organization which operated Radio Free Europe. The bell as an emblem, and then as a real physical object, was the idea of the public relations company General Mills, hired to run the campaign. The Freedom Bell, modeled on the American Liberty Bell, was installed in the tower above the town hall in West Berlin on United Nations Day, October 24, 1950, with the symbolic purpose of tolling freedom across the Eastern zone. It carries the inscription "That this world under God shall have a new birth of freedom".

ORIGINAL CAPTION:
From: Free Europe Committee, Inc., Two Park Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. Contact: Henry P. McNulty, LE 2-8900,. The reception room of the New York headquarters of Radio Free Europe, a broadcasting network that operates a complex of 28 powerful transmitters, totaling over one million watts, in West Germany and Portugal. RFE broadcasts to 79 million people of the Soviet satellite nations - 18 hours daily to listeners in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland, and 6 hours a day to Bulgaria and Romania. 15% of all RFE programs are produced in the N.Y. headquarters and 85% of the programs are produced at RFE's European studios in Munich, West Germany. Ten minutes of late news, every hour on the hour, is the backbone of the programming schedule, followed by commentaries. A well rounded schedule is provided including religious, cultural music, drama, sports, entertainment, reviews of Western press, and on-the-spot coverage of major world events, in the language of each country. # # # Radio Free Europe is a division of he Free Europe Committee, Inc. a private, non-profit organization, supported by the American public through contributions to the Radio Free Europe Fund (formerly Crusade for Freedom).

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

New York

United States

Collection Specific Tags

Cold War, headquarters, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty