American History Through the Eyes of Radio — 1945

New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia -- himself a familiar radio voice -- speaks to a stunned city and nation hours after President Franklin Roosevelt's death at Warm Springs.

A brief American news report on the Nazi women's concentration camp at Ravensbrueck, carried home as the liberation of the camps forced their reality on listeners in the final days of April 1945.

The news flash relaying the first word that Hitler was dead -- announced over Hamburg radio on 1 May 1945, a day after his suicide in the Berlin bunker.

The first radio word of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, paired with President Truman's White House statement that a single weapon drawing on "the basic power of the universe" had struck a Japanese city.

The bulletin announcing Japan's formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay -- the moment the Second World War ended.