The most economical sentence in American broadcasting. Trout had been CBS's man for the biggest bulletins since the Munich crisis and he did not waste a syllable on the last one of the war.
The War · 15 sec · Public domain
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14 August 1945 · CBS, New York
Robert Trout: the war is over
Fifteen seconds on CBS
1 minFrom V-J Day
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