[NJARC] Italian-American Radios during WWII

[anlard1026 at aol.com]

There is a nice article at http://www.sos.state.or.us/archives/exhibits/ww2/threat/aliens.htm that give some information on restrictions on enemy aliens. I know that ownership of these radios were not permitted. I would not think that, if a raidio was confiscated, it would be returned to he owner in a "tampered" state. It would just be taken away. 


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From: Alex Magoun <amagoun at davidsarnoff.org>
To: NJARC <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:39 am
Subject: [NJARC] Italian-American Radios during WWII



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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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