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    "ocrText": "March 12, 1964\nUNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY\nUSIA's biggest job, and most important accomplishment, during the past\n100 days was to tell the story of orderly succession after assassination -- to\nreassure a nervous world that \"the government in Washington lives\", and to acquaint\nmillions abroad with the new leader of America and the free world.\nMinutes after the bullets struck John Kennedy, USIA threw all its resources\ninto this task, working around the clock and using all media of communications.\nUSIA's Voice of America scrapped its entire schedule and began an\nuninterrupted flow of newsand features. Before it was over, more than a thousand\nchanges were made in VOA program schedules and transmitter facilities to cope\nwith the unfolding events. Every VOA transmitter in the world was pressed into\nwhat became the greatest massing of power, frequencies and hours-on-the-air\never undertaken by any international broadcaster.\nIn some areas VOA was the only fast source of news of the historic events.\nIn other areas foreign networks relayed or rebroadcast VOA programs.\nIn the greatest volume of traffic of any eight-day period in its history,\nUSIA's Press Service supplied 110 posts in 103 countries with material designed\nto add understanding and reassurance.\nRadio and press commentaries conveyed the determination of the United\nStates to work for peace, to honor commitments to its friends abroad, and to\ncontinue the drive for greater equality and opportunity at home.\nMore than a hundred different photographs were air-pouched to all posts\nabroad depicting the transfer of authority; the ceremonies in Washington and the\npersonality, background, and achievements of the new President.\nSix-page inserts were immediately prepared for the latest Russian and\nPolish editions of America Illustrated, which had already been printed. An\neight-page insert was prepared for the Arabic Al Hayat fi America. An illustrated\n64 page pamphlet, The President of the United States of America, was rushed\ninto print in several languages.\nThe Agency's television facilities in quick succession turned out\nseveral productions:\n-- A 12-minute biography of President Johnson went to nearly 100 posts\nwithin five days of the assassination."
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