December 21, 2000
Minneapolis man sings to nation, survives WWII, and celebrates Christmas back homeShare
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Dan Olson - Reporter, Carl Anderson - Interviewee
MPR’s Dan Olson profiles, Carl Andersen, an apprentice seaman who stepped up to an NBC microphone and sang a Christmas carol to the nation. The 1941 Christmas Eve broadcast was a prelude for Andersen and others who would endure the tumult caused by war. Four years later, on Christmas Eve 1945, Andersen returned to his home in Minneapolis, his dreams of a professional singing career a memory.
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