Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Rise of Broadcast News| On PBS Wisconsin

Lowell Thomas dominates American journalism in the 1930s and 1940s as host of the first national radio newscast on NBC and CBS and the Fox Movietone newsreels that were shown in movie theaters; narrated by Robert Siegel.

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