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	Presidential Election 1976 112 Episodes 3 Volume This collection takes you back to that time before big money really got into our politics, when the people and not big business controlled the direction of the country.	112	3	Add To Cart: $15.00
	Presidential Election 2012 109 Episodes 2 Volume Barack Obama was re-elected to a second term winning 332 Electoral Votes to Mitt Romney's 206 Electoral Votes. This was at current the last national election where a woman was not running on the two major party tickets as President or Vice President.	109	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Atomic Radio 109 Episodes 2 Volume OTRCAT original collection featuring radio shows inspired by the Atomic Age. A blast from the past, this collection includes a bombardment of shows from all genres including Science Fiction, comedy, horror, detective, and drama.	109	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Mitt Romney 108 Episodes 3 Volume American politician and businessman, Mitt Romney is a former governor of Massachusetts and the GOP's nominee for US President in the 2012. He has also served as a United States Senator from Utah since January 2019.	108	3	Add To Cart: $15.00
	Bob Elson Interviews 107 Episodes 2 Volume primarily known as a sports announcer, a large portion of his career was spent simply interviewing famous people.	107	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Presidential Election 2004 107 Episodes 3 Volume The first time since 1988 that the GOP candidate won both popular and electoral majority, George W Bush was reelecting to the Presidency.	107	3	Add To Cart: $15.00
	Marjorie Taylor Greene 104 Episodes 1 Volume Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has represented Georgia's 14th District since 2021.	104	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Mike Wallace 104 Episodes 2 Volume with early appearances in old time radio quiz shows, radio dramas, and as an announcer, Mike Wallace later focused on news broadcasts and earned the nickname "King of Confrontation" for his hardboiled interviewing style.	104	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Apocalypse (End of the World) 103 Episodes 2 Volume Hear Duck and Cover, Plagues, Robot Attacks, Time Travel, Annihilation, Cold War Speeches, and more in this OTRCAT original collection of tales about THE END OF THE WORLD!	103	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Complete Broadcast 1944 (D-Day Invasion of Normandy NBC) 103 Episodes 1 Volume original full day broadcast from the day of the invasion June 6th, 1944 including news bulletins, comedy and variety shows. These recordings illustrate the response on the American home front to the Normandy Landings called "the greatest invasion in the history of the world."	103	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Great Moments in Radio 103 Episodes 1 Volume Hear important Historical Events as they actually occurred on the Radio.	103	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Presidential Election 2000 103 Episodes 3 Volume Perhaps one of the most historic and nail biting Elections in our history was not one from the 19th Century or the 20th Century. The most nail biting Election had to be that of the first Election of the 21st Century in 2000.	103	3	Add To Cart: $15.00
	Kennedy Brothers 101 Episodes 2 Volume This collection is a history of what each brother contributed to the country; whether good, bad, or indifferent.	101	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Edward Murrow (Hear It Now) 101 Episodes 2 Volume One of the greatest American journalists in broadcast history, he pioneered the reporter on the scene reporting during WWII.	101	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	CBS World News Today 95 Episodes 2 Volume one of the first news shows to send famed correspondents, Edward R Murrow, John Charles Daly, and William L. Shirer, around the world to give American eyewitness accounts to some of the most dramatic events in history.	95	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Presidential Election 1980 94 Episodes 2 Volume The election of Ronald Reagan would usher in a new conservative movement that has gone on for the better part of 40 years.	94	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	News of the Kennedy Era 93 Episodes 2 Volume Take a trip back in time to what today seems like a much simpler time -- the early 1960s.	93	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Jeffrey Silver 93 Episodes 2 Volume While on vacation from Cleveland, Jeffrey Silver made a few radio auditions just for fun, and wound up as a young, professional, Hollywood radio actor.	93	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	You Are There 93 Episodes 2 Volume This series takes historic events and dramatizes them with "live radio" coverage. Many of the announcers on You Are There were wartime correspondents in World War II.	93	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Hubert Humphrey 92 Episodes 2 Volume Hubert Humphrey leaves behind a legacy of true liberal causes in the areas of civil rights and labor rights.	92	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Radio Fillers 92 Episodes 1 Volume Fifteen minute sample tastes of Hollywood's greats pictures by playing some of the movie's soundtrack and interview stars.	92	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Old Fashioned Revival Hour 91 Episodes 2 Volume Classic old time radio Christian evangelicalism.The show was lead by Pastor Charles E Fuller who was one of the first radio ministers.He dedicated his life to the ministry and often traveled around the country and aired live revivals.	91	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Blitzkrieg 91 Episodes 1 Volume includes news reports and speeches on the german invasion across Europe as the atrocities unfolded.	91	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Words At War 89 Episodes 2 Volume This old time radio series is a wonderful blend of history and literature and sometimes a sprinkle of wartime propaganda.	89	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	South African Rarities 86 Episodes 2 Volume Fill your Bakkie Full of Your Favorite Okes and Padkos and Listen to these Rare Radio shows from the Rainbow Nation!	86	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Biography in Sound 86 Episodes 4 Volume Produced by Joseph O. Meyers, this old time radio series fascinated radio audiences with the biographies of Churchill, Babe Ruth, Fred Allen, WC Fields, and more.	86	4	Add To Cart: $20.00
	Election Collection 84 Episodes 2 Volume old time radio shows take on elections, voting and ballots taken from all genres including comedy, drama, western, news programs, and more.	84	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Wolfman Jack 83 Episodes 1 Volume As a DJ, he played a rowdy combination of Rock and Rhythm and Blues, and his trademark raspy voice conveyed an unending sense of mischief.	83	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Presidential Election 1960 80 Episodes 2 Volume John Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon by one tenth of one percent with 49.7 percent of the popular vote to Nixon's 49.6 percent. Ironically, by the time of his death in 1963, more than fifty percent of the American voters said that they had voted for him.	80	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Father Coughlin 79 Episodes 3 Volume "The Radio Priest" was a success when he first discussed religious matters in the early days of radio. Father Coughlin stepped on a few toes when he expanded into calls for economic reform and political commentary.	79	3	Add To Cart: $15.00
	Voyager Golden Record 76 Episodes 1 Volume The Golden Records attached to the hulls of the Voyager 1&2 Deep Space Probes are mankind's ultimate "note in a bottle"	76	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	State of the Union Addresses 74 Episodes 3 Volume Officially a speech made from the US President to Congress; however, the advent of radio made the State of the Union a public speech heard by Americans everywhere.	74	3	Add To Cart: $15.00
	Newt Gingrich 74 Episodes 2 Volume Gingrich is former American politician and author who served as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He was a member of the Republican Party and played a leading role in the conservative movement.	74	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Elmer Davis and the News 74 Episodes 1 Volume During the months before Pearl Harbor, FDR appointed Elmer Davis to head up the Office of War Information. From this bully pulpit, Davis helped to whip the Nation into a fury over the aggressions of the Nazi's in Europe.	74	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Politicians Corrupt Dirty and Otherwise 73 Episodes 2 Volume This collection includes historical and news broadcasts as well as fictional accounts of corrupt politicians on The Green Hornet, The Halls of Ivy, The Lone Ranger, and more.	73	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Joseph McCarthy Audio Excerpts 72 Episodes 1 Volume He was best known for his attempts to root out communist in the State Department, then the Army, then just about everywhere. McCarthy was eventually censured by the Senate for his zealous attacks.	72	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	George McGovern 71 Episodes 2 Volume This collection is dedicated to the lifetime of service that politician George McGovern did to improve the lives of Americans and people all around the world.	71	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Cuban Missile Crisis 69 Episodes 1 Volume October 14, 1962 U2 spy planes discovered Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles off of the Florida Coast.	69	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	1948 65 Episodes 1 Volume 1948 Olympics were austere, Gandhi was shot and killed, Czechoslovakia communist coup, and Israel was declared as an independent state.	65	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Colin Powell 62 Episodes 2 Volume Colin Powell was an American politician, diplomat, and 4-star general who served as secretary of state from 2001-2005.	62	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Excursions in Science 61 Episodes 2 Volume Sponsored by General Electric to increase interest and layman's knowledge of science	61	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Presidential and Political Funerals 61 Episodes 4 Volume How we send our leaders and public figures into the afterlife says as much about society as it does about the deceased.	61	4	Add To Cart: $20.00
	Abraham Lincoln 61 Episodes 2 Volume One of the most revered Presidents in American History, Abraham Lincoln was a popular figure in old time radio shows.	61	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	1954 60 Episodes 1 Volume Americans in 1954 are beginning to turn away from the bluster and cruelty of McCarthyism and embracing Rock and Roll music.	60	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 06 59 Episodes 1 Volume an OTRCAT.com original collection of rare never released shows from the golden age of radio including A & P Gypsies!	59	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 15 59 Episodes 1 Volume A collection of rare, hard to find shows from all genres including Heart Throbs, Heritage Radio Theater, The Man Behind The Masterpiece, Nightcap Yarns, Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands, Mr. Pickwick's Christmas.	59	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	1953 56 Episodes 1 Volume The Space Age is still a few years from beginning, but in many very real ways, the future begins in 1953.	56	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	1952 56 Episodes 1 Volume The TV revolution gains strength in 1952, but the major advances are in International Relations.	56	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Complete Broadcast 1941 (Pearl Harbor) 56 Episodes 1 Volume The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed the history of the world and officially brought the US in WWII. In the Complete Day Coverage of the Blue Network on Pearl Harbor Day (Dec 7, 1941) we can hear a nation moving from the confusion of a surprise attack to one steeled for War.	56	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	1947 56 Episodes 1 Volume With the country on the cusp of the post-War economic boom, many elements of the past came to an end in 1947 while the future was bearing down like the beginning of the Cold War, partitioning of India and Pakistan, the development of the transistor at Bell Laboratories, breaking the sound barrier, and inventions like the Polaroid Land Camera.	56	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	1946 56 Episodes 1 Volume Nuremberg Trials signaled the end of the Nazi regime, Operation Diana signaled the beginning of the space race, and the Baby Boom signaled a new generation of history makers.	56	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	VJ Day 54 Episodes 1 Volume Japan officially surrendered from WWII on the deck of the USS Missouri (BB-63) on September 2, 1945.	54	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Michael Dukakis 54 Episodes 3 Volume Dukakis is a retired lawyer, Governor of Massachusetts, and aspiring Presidential Candidate in the 1980's.	54	3	Add To Cart: $15.00
	Final Episodes of OTR 54 Episodes 2 Volume Even the best OTR programs eventually came to an end, learn how it happened in our Last Episode Collection.	54	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Author Meets Critic 53 Episodes 2 Volume Join the battle between authors and critics when you listen to The Author Meets the Critic.	53	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Presidential Thanksgiving 53 Episodes 1 Volume The Thanksgiving Holiday has many spiritual and political implications, but it is also a time for fun.	53	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Joint Sessions of Congress 53 Episodes 2 Volume The Senate and the House of Representatives each go about their business of making laws independent of each other, however, there are several important occasions when both Houses meet in Joint Session.	53	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	1955 51 Episodes 1 Volume The year Disneyland opens, the FDA approved the Polio Vaccine, The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, entered the seas, and many old time radio shows left the airwaves including The Jack Benny Program.	51	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	1951 50 Episodes 1 Volume The Post-War economic boom booms to a high point in 1951.	50	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Presidential Fourth of July 50 Episodes 1 Volume Marked with summer tradition, many celebrate July 4th with fireworks, but politicians use the holiday to address the the public.	50	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Cavalcade of Kings 50 Episodes 1 Volume features the radio dramatization of the fascinating history of the British Monarchy.	50	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Inheritance 50 Episodes 2 Volume This highly patriotic show revisits amazing people, times, and events in American History.	50	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	This is the Story 49 Episodes 1 Volume This old time radio show takes a fascinating in depth look into unknown tidbits about people and events that shaped our culture, history, and world.	49	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	1950 49 Episodes 1 Volume The year 1950 was filled with boundless optimism as America came out of WWII as an economic and military powerhouse.	49	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Henry Kissinger 49 Episodes 1 Volume Critics say that as secretary of state towards the end of the Vietnam War; he lost his war.	49	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Adlai Stevenson 48 Episodes 1 Volume If not for his off the cuff exchange in 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, we might not be alive today to enjoy this Adlai Stevenson collection.	48	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	US Navy Shows 48 Episodes 1 Volume If great music was all it took to get young men to the recruiting office, these U.S. Navy Shows would have found more sailors than we have ships. As it was, these great programs from the USN Recruiting Command gave us hours of toe-tapping goodness and dreams of the high seas.	48	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	New World A-Coming 48 Episodes 1 Volume the brainchild of Roi Ottley -- aired political and racial concerns through true-life accounts of people's experiences, such as black U.S. soldiers on leave denied at restaurants and movie theaters, discrimination in the workplace, unequal pay & opportunities, and other civil rights issues. Ottley's book, by the same name, won the Peabody Award and the Life in America Award in 1943.	48	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Memorial Day Presidential Recordings 46 Episodes 1 Volume As we all gather around the picnic table to spend time with family and friends to ring in the unofficial start of the summer season; let’s remember those empty seats at those picnic tables who gave the ultimate sacrifice for us all to enjoy this time together.	46	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	1956 46 Episodes 1 Volume By the mid-1950s the standard of living was increasing and rock n roll grew in popularity, UnAmerican Activities Committee searched the entertainment industry for Communist Sympathizers.	46	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Pacific Powerland 45 Episodes 1 Volume Entertaining Educational Historic Tales	45	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	America Town Meeting of the Air 44 Episodes 2 Volume Every week, the nation listened as experts debated issues from communism to social security to the type of music America wanted. Modeled after New England Town Hall Meetings, each show opened with a "town crier" clanging a bell and an active audience that would "boo" panelists.	44	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	1959 44 Episodes 1 Volume From the Red Scare to the Space Race, Alaska and Hawaii entered the Union and music died when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper died in a fatal airplane crash.	44	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	March of Time 43 Episodes 1 Volume This old time radio broadcast was renown for dramatized news events.	43	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Rare Holiday 42 Episodes 1 Volume There are several holidays on a year’s calendar, and they all deserve to be celebrated.	42	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	My Hometown 42 Episodes 1 Volume Terry Lee Jenkins and PAMS Company put out a full length 45 RPM to promote local towns around the country that was to be played in local radio market	42	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Destination Freedom 42 Episodes 1 Volume The concept of African-American civil rights was not mainstream at the end of the 1940's. Shows like Destination Freedom on WMAQ helped pave the way to a better society.	42	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Recollections at Thirty 41 Episodes 1 Volume The OTR era ended in 1962 when Suspence went off the air, but NBC was already looking back nostalgically to 1930’s programing in the mid-50’s with Recollections at Thirty.	41	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 13 41 Episodes 1 Volume Lucky 13 Random Rarities Collections features shows long thought lost in the vault of time.	41	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Frontier Fighters 40 Episodes 1 Volume Follow the opening of the North American Continent as Frontier Fighters follow the exploits of the brave explorers who pioneered their way into the interior. Hear history unfolding before your ears.	40	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Walter Mondale 40 Episodes 1 Volume Mondale was a lawyer and politician who servers as Vice President to Jimmy Carter from 1977-1981.	40	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 19 39 Episodes 1 Volume Here is a new collection of Rare Programs which will not fit in another category but are too important and entertaining not to be released in a collection.	39	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 14 39 Episodes 1 Volume The best loved shows from the Golden Age were more likely to be preserved, but we keep finding treasures in some of the "orphaned recordings".	39	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Our Nations Heritage 39 Episodes 1 Volume Award winning music education radio show, presenting not only performances but discussions of musical theory as well as introducing both classical and popular music forms such as Jazz and folk.	39	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	That Was the Year 39 Episodes 1 Volume is a fascinating radio show that dramatizes the major historical events between the years 1896-1934. Headlines include Spanish American War in Cuba, Volcano Mt Pelee destroys town of Saint Pierre, Republic of China established, and Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. Every episode ends with a performance of a popular song from the year.	39	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	HV Kaltenborn Edits the News 39 Episodes 1 Volume History repeats itself when H. V. Kaltenborn provides vivid commentary and pointed insight into world affairs and politics in the 1940s and 1950s.	39	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Korean AFRS Broadcasts 37 Episodes 1 Volume When the Korean War broke out, AFRS had Army broadcasters working from the old American Embassy Hotel in Seoul and mobile units were attached to combat units and followed the action.	37	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Ronald Reagan Attempted Assassination 37 Episodes 1 Volume On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan outside a hotel in Washington D.C.	37	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Depression Era Recordings 37 Episodes 1 Volume Old Time Radio Looks at the Great Depression, the economic crisis which began with the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and how it affected Americans everywhere.	37	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Presidential Victory and Concession 37 Episodes 1 Volume In the United States election cycle there are differing candidates vying for a political office. At times it can be bitter but when it's over, there is a winner and a loser and typically candidates are a good sport about it.	37	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	President Inaugural Addresses 36 Episodes 1 Volume This collection includes every Presidential Inaugural Speech since Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 4, 1933 through 2021.	36	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Ross Perot 36 Episodes 2 Volume Perot was a business magnate, billionaire, and aspiring US Presidential Candidate--running twice in the 1990s.	36	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Romance of the Ranchos 36 Episodes 1 Volume Romance of the Ranchos tells the stories of the brave men and women who lived and loved in Old California when it was still a Spanish colony.	36	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	1957 36 Episodes 1 Volume The "Baby Boom" reached his highest point, the Soviets launch Sputnik 1, and the "Little Rock Nine" fought against segregation.	36	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Herbert Hoover 35 Episodes 1 Volume The first US President born west of the Mississippi, Herbert Hoover was president during the earliest years of old time radio.	35	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Mayor La Guardia 35 Episodes 1 Volume Fiorello H. La Guardia was the reform-minded Mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945, known for his public works projects, transportation improvements, and anti-corruption efforts.	35	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	George Wallace 34 Episodes 1 Volume "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Those were the famous introductory words by George Wallace to the American people.	34	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Babe Ruth 34 Episodes 1 Volume The Adventures of Babe Ruth was produced in 1934 on the Blue Network, with sponsorship by Quaker Oats, and was the best of the lot. It told in-depth, fully dramatized episodes from the Babe's career, so there was a sense of the real man there in the dugout and on the field.	34	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Paramount is on the Air 33 Episodes 1 Volume Hollywood studios used the radio to advertise upcoming films featuring songs and scenes from the films without giving away the plot.	33	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	WEAF 12-Hour Broadcast, (Aug 10 1945 Atomic Bombing Nagasaki) 32 Episodes 1 Volume Transcribed under the assumption of the end of the war the day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, this recording is a significant part of American history as it reflects the tension as we teetered at the end of WWII.	32	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
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