Radio brought the news directly into listeners’ living rooms. Among the major news stories broken on radio: the Scopes monkey trial, carried live by Chicago station WGN in 1925; the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster, covered by WLS Chicago in 1937; and Edward R. Murrow’s CBS reports on the Blitz of Britain, airing in 1940.

Black Flame of the Amazon

Black Flame of the Amazon is a children's adventure story from the 1930s. The show follows world famous explorer, Harold Noice and his friends as they face the perils of the Amazon. Noice and his crew faced wild animals, rebels with guns, natives and many other strange characters.