CBS IS There - Radio The Listening Years

1928, 36, 1929. Years, years of radio, the listening years, years when CVS brought you the sound of history, of great events. Events made more vivid and unforgettable because when they happened, as they happened, CVS is there.

night for National Radio Week, CBS is there, recreates actual broadcasts of notable events selected from the listening years. You will hear a president, a prisoner, a king, and a plain people speaking to you again as they spoke to you before in memorable microphone moments.

And now, with John Daly as narrator, the listening years, CBS is there. You have waited three years, eight months, and twenty-five days for this moment. You have fought, worked, sacrificed, and prayed, and now it is here.

Somewhere in the Pacific it is happening thirty-eight hundred miles beyond Pearl Harbor, and you in Terrehot, Okinawa, Berlin, and Birmingham, on ships at sea and down in mines in crowded cities and RFD routes. You are there!

Attention, peoples of the world. World War II is about to come to its official closing. on the Pacific Fleet Flag Ship USS Missouri and Tokyo Bay for the signing of the surrender of Japan. We're on the veranda deck.

Its great guns are pointed skyward to allow room for the Army, Navy, Marines and the representatives of the nations who are here. The Ten of General Jonathan Wainwright is here, he who surrendered at Kuregador.

And Lieutenant General Arthur Percival, who surrendered at Singapore. For the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and with him the Admiral of the Fleet Chester Nimitz and other dignitaries.

General MacArthur is now facing the microphone. I now invite the representatives of the emperor of Japan to sign the instrument of surrender at the places indicated. Shigamitsu, Foreign Minister of the Japanese Government is stepping forward now.