A FULL HOUR OF INTERVIEWS WITH MEN CLOSEST TO VISTORY IN EUROPE

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CIA-RDP68-00046R000200030040-1
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December 23, 2016
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March 19, 2014
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40
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Publication Date: 
May 5, 1955
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ISTAT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP68-00046R00020-1 MAT 0 tzrn ? ? ? VV X1471-1.111%.71.1.4.11.11 Jr %AV AND 'IMES HERALD a full hour of interviews with men closest to Victory in Europe " Sunday on WTOP-TV How do we stand today?ten years after VE- . Day?, Who would know best? ,Former President Harry Truman? Former Ambassador to Russia Averell Harriman? General Omar. Bradley? The voice of the GI, Bill Maiddin? ?A thild born on VE-Day? ?Next Sunday, May 8th; the tenth anniversary of Hitler's defeat, your Washington Post and . Times Herald will bring their memories and views into your living room. Key personali- ties,.eacll of whom had a major part in the Victory iti Europe and in the events that grew from? it, will be .interviewed by Vashington" Post and Times Herald writers' and editors. Philip L Graham, Publisher of The Washing- ton Post and Times Herald, will be,na.trato.k, Of this documentary program: It will 'be a ?' full-hour television show that promises to make history on its own. ? If you are interested in the world you .live . if you are interested in the world your children will live in ... you will be watching. Produced, and directed by Larry Beckerman Sunday, May 8th 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. WTOP-Til channel 9 brought to you as a public service by your WASHINGTON POST and TIMES HERALD Averell Harriman ' . AlataizsattY?to, Russia. when its policy shifted . . . interviewed by Managing ? Editor J. R. Wiggins. Harry ,Truman . Ne-W, President who pro- claimed the victory . . in- terviewed by White House Correspondent Edward T. 'Bill Mauldin - . .4r.-cift6onist for the GIs ?who slugged it out inter- viewed by' Cartoonist ,Her- block. ? ' 'John Foster Dulles Foreign Affairs adviser who intierited the problems . intervieWed by Colum- nist Stewart Mop. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release wig , men ower . . . Supreme Commander who smashed the "invin- cible" Wehrmacht . . . *Questioned at news confer- ence by White House Cor-. respondent EdWard T. Fol-' hard.' ? ? Omar .Bradley Commahded more field ? troops than any other gen- eral in history . ? , inter- viewed, by Editor.of the Edi- torial'Page Robert Estabrook. ? Carl- keatz . . . Commander of U. S. Air Forces . . . launched 1.5 megatons of bombs'. . ". in- ? terviewed by Cartoonist Mil- ton Caniff... , Alan Kirk ...X. S. Naval Commander of the cross-channel in- vasion of Europe: . . inter- viewed bi-, Reporter Edward Ryan. ? Walter Bedell Smith ... Ike's Chief of 'Staff . . took surrender from Nazis in red schoolhouse . . in- terviewed by State Depart- ment Correspondent Chal- mers M. Roberts. Vannevar Bush I , ... Head of American science in war . . . overseer 'of the A-Bomb . . . inter- viewed by Assistant Manag- ing Editor Alfred Friendly. Wernher von Braun ? ... Father orGermany's V-2 . . now United States g"u i de d missile expert: . in- terviewed by Military Affairs Reporter John Norris. Mark Berch . .. he has lived a whole life- time since V-E Day, his birth- day . . . interviewed by School Reporter Jeanne Rogers. @ 50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP68-00046R000200030040-1