I can hear it now : the sixties. Pt. 2.

"I can hear it now: the sixties," a documentary about the 1960s. Part 2 of 6. Walter Cronkite narrates and provides context for the many statements featured in the program. Includes recordings of former Vice President Richard Nixon and his failed campaign for Governor of California, Russian cosmonau...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: CBS Television Network (Broadcaster)
Other Authors: Cronkite, Walter (Narrator)
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 (Speaker)
Von Braun, Wernher, 1912-1977 (Speaker)
Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich, 1934-1968 (Speaker)
Glenn, John, 1921-2016 (Speaker)
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 (Speaker)
Katzenbach, Nicholas deB. (Nicholas deBelleville), 1922-2012 (Speaker)
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998 (Speaker)
Jackson, Mahalia, 1911-1972 (Speaker)
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 (Speaker)
Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 (Speaker)
Hughes, Sarah T. (Sarah Tilghman), 1896-1985 (Speaker)
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 (Speaker)
Oswald, Lee Harvey (Speaker)
Pappas, Ike (Reporter)
Hannan, Philip M. (Philip Matthew), 1913-2011 (Speaker)
Language:English
Subjects:
Nineteen sixties.
Civil rights movements > United States > History.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Governors > California > Election.
Space flights.
Nuclear weapons > United States > Testing.
Nixon, Richard M. > (Richard Milhous), > 1913-1994 > Political activity.
Kennedy, John F. > (John Fitzgerald), > 1917-1963 > Assassination.
Oswald, Lee Harvey > Death and burial.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Genre:
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Physical Description:1 audio file (28 min., 12 sec.)
Format: Audio Software
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Summary:
"I can hear it now: the sixties," a documentary about the 1960s. Part 2 of 6. Walter Cronkite narrates and provides context for the many statements featured in the program. Includes recordings of former Vice President Richard Nixon and his failed campaign for Governor of California, Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts as they travel into space, President John F. Kennedy talking about nuclear test bans, and of the continuing campaign to promote civil rights for black Americans. Features an excerpt from the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln monument in Washington D.C. Reports on the events of the assassination of President Kennedy, the swearing in of President Lyndon Johnson, and the death of Lee Harvey Oswald are played.
Note:Electronic resource.
Originally broadcast on CBS.
Call Number:M1442
Voice 18155
Playing Time:00:28:12
Event Details:
Broadcast 1970 December