Eichmann on the Air: Radio and the Making of a Historic Trial

microphones were installed in the courtroom (one for each judge,
prosecution, defense, witness stand, interpreter, and accused) and
were wired simultaneously to the loudspeaker system, to
earphones inside the hall, and to Kol Yisrael's transmission booth.
Adjacent to the transmission booth and overlooking the entire hall
was the control booth, from which a technician activated each
speaker's microphone (Fig. 2, 3). The 'nerve center' was located
on the bottom floor of the building, where five mini-studios were set
to serve 32 foreign stations and networks, working continuously 24
hours a day with the capacity of relaying up to eight overseas
transmissions an hour (Fig. 4). In the prose of Radio's reporter,
Kol Yisrael's technicians were entrusted with a mission exceeding
the technical challenge: 'And here—in these tiny studios and
cramped rooms they will have to mix and broadcast and cable the
message of the trial to all corners of the world'. 11
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