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Jason Robards
Narrator (voice)
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Red Barber
Self - Radio Announcer
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Erik Barnouw
Self - Historian
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Ken Bilby
Self - Biographer of David Sarnoff
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Norman Corwin
Self - Writer
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Susan Douglas
Self - Historian
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Frank Günther
Self (engineer)
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Jeanne Hammond
Self - Niece of Edwin H. Armstrong
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Loren Jones
Self - Engineer
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Garrison Keillor
Self - Writer
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Helen Kelley
Self - Radio Broadcaster
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Robert Morris
Self - Engineer
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Dana Raymond
Self - Friend of Edwin H. Armstrong
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Gertrude Tyne
Self - Engineer
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Fred Allen
Self - Predicts Demise of Radio (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Gene Autry
Self - Sings (archive sound) (uncredited)
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John Barrymore
Hamlet (archive sound) (uncredited)
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Winston Churchill
Self - Finest Hour Speech (archive sound) (uncredited)
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Charles J. Correll
Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Lee De Forest
Self - Objects to Quality of Radio Programming (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Ralph Edwards
Self - Host of 'This Is Your Life' (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self - Announces Landing in Normandy (archive sound) (uncredited)
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Eugenia Farrar
Self (with Lee De Forest) (unconfirmed) (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Freeman F. Gosden
Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Guglielmo Marconi
Self - Visits Sarnoff at RCA (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Marie Mosquini
Self - with Lee De Forest (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Nelson Rockefeller
Self - Eulogizes Sarnoff (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self - Makes Broadcast About Banking Reform (archive footage) (uncredited)
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David Sarnoff
Self - with Marconi at RCA (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Frank Sinatra
Self - Serenades Sarnoff (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Arturo Toscanini
Self - Conducts NBC Symphony (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Harry S. Truman
Self - Announces Bombing of Hiroshima (archive sound) (uncredited)
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Bob Warren
This is Your Life Announcer Dr. Lee DeForrest episode (uncredited)
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Orson Welles
Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcast (archive sound) (uncredited)
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