Memorial Day Marathon

Memorial Day Radio Tribute:

The Battle Hymn of the Republic - The Story Behind the Song

General Eisenhower's Memorial Day Order of the Day - Raymond Gram Swing News Report - May 30, 1945

Memorial Day - Poetry Anthology 1955 - Helen Hayes - Walter Houston - Claude Raines. Helen Hayes reads Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson plus readings by Walter Houston and Claude Raines

Memorial Day - Anthology 1954 Radio Special - Crosby - Moorehead - Houston - Lovejoy

Memorial Day Memories - Against the Storm - Poet John Masefield. Against the Storm is a radio daytime drama which had three separate runs over a 13-year period. The drama was the only daytime radio serial to ever win a Peabody Award, for "Outstanding Entertainment in Drama" in 1941.

Freedom is a Home Made Thing - Memorial Day Radio Drama - Living 1948. Radio critics greetedare greeting NBC's new "Living—1948" drama-document series with warm words of approval.

Memorial Day Parade - Great Gildersleeve - After marching in the Memorial Day Parade, Gildersleeve decides to write a Will in preparation of his upcoming wedding, and Judge Hooker helps him with it.

Between Americans - 12/7/1941 - Orson Welles - Norman Corwin - What Americans were listening to the evening of December 7, 1941 after the Pearl Harbor Attack

The Story Behind The Song - Star Spangled Banner

A Farewell To Arms - Clark Gable - Josephine Hutchinson - Hemingway - Lux Radio Theater
On the Italian front during World War I, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American architect serving as an officer on an ambulance in the Italian Army, delivers some wounded soldiers to a hospital.

Prayer in Wartime - Fulton Sheen - Fulton John Sheen was an American bishop (later archbishop) of the Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio

Lieutenant Jack Barbour Leaves For the Pacific - One Man's Family - Carlton E. Morse
An American radio soap opera, heard for almost three decades, from 1932 to 1959

Wings of the N..