WJSV Complete Broadcast Day - September 21st, 1939
On Thursday September
21st, 1939, just after England
had declared war on Germany
- the start of World War 2 - WJSV Radio Station in Washington DC transcribed its Complete Broadcast Day.
On that day President Franklin D Roosevelt gave a speech to congress on the issue of the Neutrality Law and WJSV decided to record the entire day in nineteen parts to keep a record of it. By listening you are taken back over sixty years and given an historical insight, not only into radio, but also into how life was all those years ago.
The first part of this wonderful aural document appears on the site today and each day for the next couple of weeks will see further instalments.
I’m sure you’ll find it both educational and entertaining.
To help give you an insight into what was going on around
the time of this recording I’ve done a little research. Below is a list of births,
deaths and historic events that happened during September 1939.
Births
1939 (01 Sept) Heinrich Messner Austria,
downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1939 (01 Sept) Lily Tomlin Detroit,
comedienne/actress (9 to 5, Laugh-in, All of Me)
1939 (05 Sept) John Stewart San Diego Ca, rocker
(Kingston Trio-Fire in the Wind)
1939 (06 Sept) David Allan Coe country musician
(Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy)
1939 (07 Sept) S David Griggs Portland Oregon,
astronaut (STS 51D, STS 33)
1939 (10 Sept) Greg Mullavey Buffalo NY, actor
(Tom-Mary Hartman, Rituals)
1939 (11 Sept) Lola Falana Camden NJ, singer
(Liberation of LB Jones)
1939 (13 Sept) Richard Kiel Detroit Mich, James
Bond adversary
1939 (17 Sept) David Souter Weir NH, Supreme Court
Justice (1990- )
1939 (18 Sept) Fred Willard Ohio, comedian
(Fernwood 2 Night, Real People)
1939 (22 Sept) Junko Tabei Japan, 1st woman to
climb Mount Everest
1939 (22 Sept) Mike Sullivan (Gov-Wyoming)
1939 (24 Sept) Manfred W”rner Secretary General of
NATO
1939 (27 Sept) Kathy Whitworth golfer (AP Woman
Athlete of the Year-1966)
1939 (29 Sept) Larry Linville Ojai Calif, actor
(Frank Burns-M*A*S*H, Blue Movie)
1939 (29 Sept) Mylene Demongeot Nice France,
actress (Just Another Pretty Face)
1939 (30 Sept) Len Cariou actor (Four Seasons)
Deaths
1939 (06 Sept) Arthur Racham artist, dies
at 71
1939 (23 Sept) Sigmund Freud created
psychoanalysis, dies at 83
Events
1939 (01 Sept) Physical Review publishes 1st paper
to deal with "black holes"
1939 (01 Sept) WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig
1939 (03 Sept) Yanks beat Red Sox on a forfeit, their 4th
forfeit win
1939 (03 Sept) Britain declares war on Germany
1939 (03 Sept) France, Australia,
New Zealand, South Africa & Canada follow Britain in declaring war
1939 (04 Sept) The Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated
1939 (07 Sept) Radio NY Worldwide-WRUL begins radio
transmision
1939 (08 Sept) FDR declares "limited national
emergency" due to war in Europe
1939 (08 Sept) Yanks beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7, game called
because of lightning
1939 (17 Sept) Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II
1939 (23 Sept) Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get
27 hits & beat Phillies 22-4
1939 (27 Sept) Warsaw, Poland, surrenders to Germans after
19 days of resistance
1939 (28 Sept) Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition
of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to the USSR
1939 (30 Sept) 1st televised college football game
(Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC)
1939 (30 Sept) Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland
Happy Listening
