Big brains

Weitere Episoden von „Letter from America: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)“

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  Bobby Kennedy's assassination, 1968

  9.6.1968

  13:48

  An eyewitness account of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles, and the collective-guilt aftermath for America.
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  1000th letter - American reactions to Vietnam, 1968

  24.3.1968

  14:09

  The national mood begins to change over the Vietnam war - how America began to move from early indifference to the recognition of a nightmare.
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  Christmas 1967

  24.12.1967

  13:37

  Senator Jacob Javits' parking fine, Mayor Lindsay and the water commissioner, and a President Truman Christmas story.
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  Honeymoon with President Johnson, 1966

  21.8.1966

  14:01

  Democracy demonstrated - how the President of the United States had to make way for Mr Meyer Sugarman's wedding night.
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  The LA Watts riots, 1965

  22.8.1965

  14:00

  The Watts riots in Los Angeles - were they an uprising by black Americans angry at their treatment or simply criminally motivated looting and violence?
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  Clay vs Liston Fight

  30.5.1965

  13:46

  How the debacle of the Cassius Clay–Sonny Liston boxing prize fight tarnished one of the elements of American culture - sportsmanship
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  President Johnson's inauguration, 1965

  17.1.1965

  13:59

  President Lyndon B Johnson's inauguration for his own full first term, and some earlier notable inaugurations, including Washington and Jefferson's.
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  Assassination of J F Kennedy, 1963

  24.11.1963

  14:14

  The assassination of John F Kennedy, the first president of the television age, and the style, grace and fun he brought to the White House.
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  Big brains

  21.1.1962

  13:53

  How New York construction was brought to a halt by the Electrician's Union strike, and why the computer or 'the big brain' will soon change how people work.
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  500th letter

  8.9.1957

  15:42

  Alistair Cooke remembers Lindsay Wellington, the BBC head who came up with the idea of weekly letters to help people in the UK understand American life in 1946.