14 August 1945 · NBC, New York
Thirty-five seconds: Japan has surrendered
The first bona fide announcement of the Japanese surrender, off the Associated Press wire from Navy Secretary Forrestal. Everything that happens in the archive over the next eighteen hours — Times Square, Chicago, Milwaukee, Independence, Missouri — starts here.
The War · 35 sec · Public domain
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