[NJARC] Italian-American Radios during WWII

[Alex Magoun]

Thanks to Owen and the anonymous loaner who brought in a radio Friday night;
I'm sorry I missed a great night of exhibits that even Dave Sica's video
can't do 3D justice to!

 

Geoff Bourne of the AWA sent out this request from PBS, and I recall some of
you offering some NJ perspectives, and possibly a bibliographical citation,
on government controls on German-American or Italian-American shortwave
radios.  Can anyone help?  Documentation short of visiting the National
Archives would help:

 

My name is Morgan Beatty and I'm a researcher for the PBS series "History
Detectives."  I'm looking into the story of "enemy aliens" during WWII -
Italian families in Detroit whose radios were tampered with by the federal
or local authorities.

 

I've been in touch with a couple of antique radio experts in Detroit who
know something about this, but I've not yet been able to find hard proof
that this went on - the removal of shortwave components from the radios
belonging to families of German, Italian and Japanese descent during the
early years of the war.

 

Would you be able to help us in our research?  We're looking for radios that
show evidence of this tampering and/or paperwork that can confirm that this
went on.

 

Thank you so much for your time.

 

Best,

Morgan Beatty

History Detectives / Lion Television

212-206-8633 ext. 3888

304 Hudson St. 5th Floor

New York, NY 10013

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See some of you Saturday,

 

Alex 

 

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