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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP152—023: D-Day's 80th Anniversary—FDR's D-Day Prayer & A Special Bob Hope Show
Description: At 10PM, across all networks, the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, took to the air with a special prayer for the invading troops. Thirty-Five million Americans tuned in. It was the most-listened to broadcast of any kind which aired in 1944.
At 10:15 Bob Hope took to the air with a special D-Day Broadcast. For more information on this year of Bob’s life, tune into Breaking Walls episode 148.
This is FDR's D-Day Prayer below:
My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the Un...