FALSE REPORT OF KING
STORY OF SUDDEN DEATH BROADCAST RADIO HOAX IN FRANCE LONDON, Sunday. A statement to the effect that King George had died suddenly from heart failure was broadcast from a Paris wireless station on the strength of an unverified telephone message. Twenty minutes later the controllers of the station discovered that they had been hoaxed, and issued a denial. Many English listeners In the meantime had heard the original message. There are many complaints about the possibility of such a falsehood being broadcast.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 9
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86FALSE REPORT OF KING Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 9
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