Irving Ellestad is pictured at homemade wireless station that he built with brother Gerhard in the basement of the family home in Lanesboro. The key and headphones were handmade. The companion station was located in the Ellestad store a half-mile away.
Streetcar interior advertisement for Radio Free Europe. "Let George do it! Send your 'Truth Dollar' to Crusade for Freedom. Support Radio Free Europe." Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty RFE/FL) was founded as a propaganda news source in 1949.