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The Pope inaugurates Vatican Radio on February 12, 1931, introduced by Senator Guiglielmo Marconi, the inventor of long-distance radio transmission. (5:30) In Italian with English narration to come.

Photo Gallery

Rev. Philip Marquard, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. John LaFarge
Rev. Philip Marquard, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. John LaFarge
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Pope Pius XI inaugurated Vatican Radio, February 12, 1931
Pope Pius XI
Superior General Wlodmir Ledochowski
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, Munich 1937
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Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli
Ambassador William Phillips
John LaFarge in 1938.
John LaFarge
Monsignor Joseph Hurley