Ten American fliers held behind the Iron Curtain — and Washington gives Belgrade forty-eight hours to answer. This is the news of one real week, August 19–25, 1946, read the way America heard it: from the news desk of WMPQ in Maple Falls, an ordinary American town.
The ultimatum and the men who came home. Goering recalled as Nuremberg turns for home. The meat ruling that reached every kitchen chalkboard. A pennant race dead even on Sunday night. A new Studebaker in the Main Street window, and the first county fair in five summers.
Every headline, price, score, and quote is drawn from the verified record of that week. Archival photographs and film are shown as history, restored but never altered; scenes of Maple Falls are period-true recreations of American life.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Show Open
0:15 Cold Open
0:47 Welcome
1:25 The Week’s Lead — Yugoslavia
5:35 Washington
8:19 World Roundup
10:12 The Weather
10:44 Kitchen Table
13:07 Sports
15:09 The American Week — Fair Season on Main Street
18:01 Sign-Off
Produced with AI assistance (Claude). New episode every week — this week in the 40s, every week.
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