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Nbc Goes To War The Diary Of Radio Correspondent James Cassidy From London To The Bulge James Cassidy Editor Michael Sweeney Editor

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Nbc Goes To War The Diary Of Radio Correspondent James Cassidy From London To The Bulge James Cassidy Editor Michael Sweeney Editor
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Publisher: Fordham University Press
File Extension: PDF
File size: 4.29 MB
Pages: 192
Author: James Cassidy (editor); Michael Sweeney (editor)
ISBN: 9780823299348, 0823299341
Language: English
Year: 2022

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Nbc Goes To War The Diary Of Radio Correspondent James Cassidy From London To The Bulge James Cassidy Editor Michael Sweeney Editor by James Cassidy (editor); Michael Sweeney (editor) 9780823299348, 0823299341 instant download after payment.

The diary of radio correspondent James Cassidy presents a unique view of World War II as this reporter followed the Allied armies into Nazi Germany.
James Joseph Cassidy was one of three-hundred-and sixty-two American journalists accredited to cover the European Theater of Operations between June 7, 1944 and the war’s end. Radio was relatively new, and World War II was its first war. Among the difficulties facing historians examining radio reporters during that period is that many potential primary documents—their live broadcasts—were not recorded. In NBC Goes to War, Cassidy’s censored scripts alongside his personal diary captures a front-line view during some of the nastiest fighting in World War II as told by a seasoned NBC reporter.
Ambitious and young, James Cassidy’s coverage of World War II for the NBC radio network notched some notable firsts, including being the first to broadcast live from German soil and arranging the broadcast of a live Jewish religious service from inside Nazi Germany while incoming mortar and artillery shells fell two hundred yards away. His diary describes how he gathered news, how it was censored, and how it was sent from the battle zone to the United States. As radio had no pictures, reporters quickly developed a descriptive visual style to augment dry facts. All of Cassidy’s stories, from the panic he felt while being targeted by German planes to his shock at the deaths of colleagues, he told with grace and a reporter’s lean and engaging prose.
Providing valuable eyewitness material not previously available to historians, NBC Goes to War tells a “bottom-up” narrative that provides insight into war as fought and chronicled by ordinary men and women. Cassidy skillfully placed listeners alongside him in the ruins of Aachen, on icy back roads crawling with spies, and in a Belgian bar where a little girl wailed “Les Américains partent!” when Allied troops retreated to safety, leaving the town open to German re- occupation. With a journalistic eye for detail, NBC Goes to War unforgettably portrays life in the press corps. This newly uncovered perspective also helps balance the CBS-heavy radio scholarship about the war, which has always focused heavily on Edward R. Murrow and his “Murrow’s Boys.”


Today, when politics are filled with so much foul and rancor, when Americans point at other Americans and shout “Fake News,” NBC Goes to War is a soul-affirming reminder that reporters are ordinary people like you and me, except they VOLUNTEER to bear witness to terrible violence, and they swear to get the facts of the story—in this case, the biggest battle on the Western Front—to the audience as quickly and cleanly as possible. James Cassidy is awe-inspiring.

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