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Edward Kirby papers

1923-1983 (majority 1938-1959)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42515

Colonel Edward M. Kirby (1907-1974) came to Washington in 1938 to handle public relations for the National Association of Broadcasters. In 1941, he went to work for the War Department's press relations division and organized the radio branch. Kirby worked as the de facto liaison between the broadcast industry and the War Department and coordinated all radio coverage of the D-Day invasion. Kirby organized the Allied Radio Network, which supplied news and entertainment to troops in all sections of Europe. He created The Army Hour, a news program broadcast in the United States on NBC, 1942-1945, that attempted to convey the reality of the war to listeners through remote live broadcasts and wire recordings. For this work, Kirby received the Peabody Award in 1945. During the Korean conflict, Kirby was chief of the Department of the Army's radio-TV branch and created a filmed television program titled The Big Picture, which was widely syndicated. The Edward M. Kirby papers contain correspondence, scrapbooks, discs, photographs, speeches, scripts, awards, and magazine and newspaper articles documenting Colonel Kirby's early career in broadcasting and his work with the radio branch of the War Department. The collection spans 1923 to 1983, with the bulk of the material dating from 1938 to 1959.

6.50 linear feet and 6 tape reels

eng, Latn

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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