Author: Kyle Hogan

Interviewer: Maurice Fletcher

In 1942 it was apparent that America needed some way of organizing its wartime information and propaganda. In order to manage these things President Roosevelt created the Office of War Information and tasked popular radio personality Elmer Davis with leading the American information and propaganda movement. The Office of War Information used its position of coordinating the propaganda effort to unite Americans across race and gender through the promotion of equality and American values.