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    "title": "Handwritten Script",
    "description": "This item consists of a handwritten script of a radio broadcast given by Ronald Reagan on his syndicated radio commentary show \"Viewpoint\" regarding the Katyn Forest Massacre.",
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        "Radio Broadcasts, Speeches and Writings"
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    "ocrText": "Radio - Katyn Forest\n/\nnot all memories are pleasant but me shouldn't\npart the unpleasant ones out of am mind at least\nnot all of them. I'll be right back.\nIn a tiny cemetry in Tremendery Eng on sept. 18th\n7000 people from all over the would gathered for the\nunviviting of a\n21 for payment to Carol\non Fone with The Polich\nwearing of\nand inserved on the\nIt is a 21 pt. pyramed learning the inscription Katyn\n1940\" and a carved Polish eagle with a crown of benled\nwire. Katyn is a name ward we should all remember, It\nis the name of a forest in Poland. But the\ndoes not memorialize a place. It is dedicated to 14,500 Palish\nofficers who served in the defense of Poland N her the Mazi's\nwere invading from the West Q the Russians from the OV ast.\nThe officers disappeared when the invading forces met\nand divided Poland\na few years later a mass grave was fornd in the\nK utyn forest. It contained the leders of forty five\nhundred of those Polish officers who had been executed and\nburied there. W hat of the other 10,000? dt is believed they\nwere put on larges that were towed out into my\nanotic\nbetter waters and sunk drowning all on board.\nFor a time this was thought te be first another\nnazi aturity but with the tries the truth\nwas finally revealed. The 14,500 officer captured by\nhad learn\nthe Russians and murdened in 1940 - the date nown\ninscribed on the memorial as a matter of fact the Germans\nhad found the grave in 1943 in what had been Russian\nhad dug the grave and then standing on the pits ledge had been machine gunned.\noccupied territory preclerving the partition of Paland The 4, 500\nThe selection of climity is an interesting\nside light on relations between the free world and the saviet U.\nmaybe we need to be reminded there is still a Palish\ngent. in exile in Loudon. In 1971 the movement to"
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