David Rosenthal: belief

Transcript context

…I did. When I was a kid, my dad and I used to try and pick up shortwaves coming over the ocean and you can only do it, I think, at night because there was less electromagnetic interference from the sun or something like that. Isn't the spirit here of doing this so that consumers can't listen in on—I didn't know if it was the allies' signals or the Japanese's military plan? Exactly. I think a lot of governments did this during World War II, but certainly, the Japanese government. They didn't want their citizens listening to propaganda from the allies or other countries, which of course, the Americans and others were broadcasting all around the world. If you're going to listen to propaganda, it has to be our propaganda.…

Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.