We dug into our black-and-white archives and compiled some photos of memorable personalities RFE interviewed during the Cold War.
Personalities At Radio Free Europe: From Our Archives
- By RFE/RL
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Former U.S. first lady and human rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt sits down for an interview in the late 1950s with Radio Liberty.
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Jazz musician and bandleader William "Count" Basie (left) visits the RFE studios during a break in his 1956 European tour.
3
U.S. President John F. Kennedy speaks into an RFE microphone in the early 1960s.
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U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower talks with RFE director C. Rodney Smith in front of a map showing RFE's broadcasting area in the early 1960s.
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U.S. journalist Walter Cronkite narrates a film about RFE commissioned by the National Committee for a Free Europe in the 1960s.
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Henry Kissinger being interviewed by Radio Free Europe in the early 1960s about the political tensions raging in Europe.
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Elizabeth Taylor takes a break for an interview with Radio Free Europe in 1962 on the set of the epic film Cleopatra.
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New York Senator Kenneth Keating speaks with Radio Free Europe on a fact-finding mission to Germany in the early 1960s.
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A Radio Free Europe journalist scrambles to get a front-row seat for a news conference with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1962.
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Radio Liberty editor Francis Ronalds interviews U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1966 about the ongoing fight for equal rights in the United States.
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RFE Czechoslovak disc jockey Joe Sevecka (left) interviews British singing star Tom Jones during his March 1968 visit to Munich.
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The shah of Iran speaks into an RFE microphone during a 1968 diplomatic trip to Berlin.
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U.S. President Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser and ardent anti-communist Jeane Kirkpatrick sits down with RFE in 1980.
