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.
ORIGINAL CAPTION:
ANNA KETHLY, noted figure of the Hungarian emigration, visited RFE studios on June 8, 1958 and recorded the following message for broadcast to her fellow countrymen behind the Iron Curtain:
"The Hungarian emigration has taken not of the inhuman sentences and executions levied against the leaders of the Hungarian Revolution (Imre Nagy and Pal Maleter) with deep sorrow and indignation. The public opinion o the free world also expresses most sharply its protest against the (Communist) rule of terror which is able to maintain its usurped power only by the most cruel measures against political adversaries.
"Trusting the personal promises of János Kádár, Imre Nagy, the legal Prime Minister of Hungary left the Yugoslav legation, which had been an asylum for him and his companions. Pal Maleter received an invitation from the commanders of the Russian troops stationed in Hungary in order to discuss the conditions for the withdrawal of the Soviet troops. In every civilized state the right of immunity of parliamentarians is always respected, even in times of war. Pal Maleter and his companions went to this parley, trusting the right of immunity. Both promises were broken ... however, we cannot wonder at that because the dictatorship considers no international law and no kind of international obligation binding for itself when it is in power ... it is in direct opposition, with every one of its deeds, to the human rights stipulated in the UN Charter , although it solemnly promised to respect these when it was admitted in the UN..."
"...The trial against Imre Nagy and his companions, the sentences and the executions prove decisively that this new trial is a repetition of the Rajk trial, on a new level, with the defendants and with the same violation of truth as in the procedure against the Rajk group..."
ANNA KETHLY, following the Hungarian Revolution, made some public statements which were seized upon by the Communist and fellow-traveling press as an attack by Miss Kethly against RFE. She later disclaimed this; her visit to RFE today and her use of the RFE network to transmit her message to Hungary is concrete proof that she had been misquoted and quoted out of context in 1956-57.