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14 August 1945 · New York

Times Square, V-J night

Ben Grauer in the crowd

4 minFrom V-J Day

The networks gave up on any pretence of schedule and went to the street. Grauer's remote from Times Square is the sound behind the photograph everybody knows — two million people in one intersection, recorded live because by 1945 everybody was recording.

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