Reminiscences of Abel Alan Schechter : oral history, 1950

Biographical Note

Journalist

Scope and Contents

Journalism in the late 1920s and early 1930s; Director, news and special events for National Broadcasting Company, 1943-1945; with U.S. Army from 1944 in charge of radio and press transmission from Southwest Pacific area; Mutual Broadcasting System, 1945-1950

Subjects

• Broadcast journalism.
• Hill, Frank Ernest, 1888-1969, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Journalists--Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Radio--History.
• Radio supplies industry.
• Schechter, A. A., 1907-1989--Interviews.
• World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1980