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The radio
Reginald Fessenden
Interior of the KDKA “radio shack”
George Burns and Gracie Allen
Bob Hope stands at an NBC radio microphone in the 1940s, holding a script and wearing a gray suit with a patterned tie.
Edgar Bergen sits beside his ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy, who is dressed in a tuxedo, top hat, and monocle, in a black-and-white portrait.
Graham McNamee
Mel Allen
Walter Winchell
Edward R. Murrow stands on the left beside William L. Shirer, who sits at a desk with a CBS microphone and looks at a document.
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Freeman F. Gosden
American comedian
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Lou Costello
American actor
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Howard K. Smith
American journalist and broadcaster
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Frank Hummert
American radio producer
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Penny Singleton
American actress
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Henny Youngman
American comedian
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Joey Reynolds
American entertainer
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H. V. Kaltenborn
American journalist and radio pioneer
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Charles J. Correll
American comedian
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Chuck Blore
American broadcaster
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Anne Hummert
American radio producer
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Jim Backus
American actor
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Homer Haynes
American entertainer
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Ray Goulding
American comedian
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Stan Freberg
American satirist
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Jethro Burns
American entertainer
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Louise Bennett-Coverley
Jamaican folklorist, poet, and radio and television personality
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Ivor Cutler
British humorist, writer, and performer
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Groucho Marx
American comedian and actor
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
American actor, director, and writer

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