Sound of 50 years : the 1920's to the 1970's : a CBS News production. [sound recording}
date: label: Date
content: 1970
notes: label: Notes
content: A recorded collection of the sounds of the important historical events that took place between 1920 and 1970, such as Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic, the Great Depression, the Second World War, the rise and spread of communism, space exploration, and the civil rights movement in America.
label: Table of contents
content: Montage: Welcome for Charles Lindbergh ; President Franklin Roosevelt ; Bonus marcher ; Adolf Hitler ; Winston Churchill ; John Daly, CBS ; General Douglas MacArthur ; Radio Budapest ; President John Kennedy ; Cardinal Cushing ; Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Reid Collins, CBS -- The twenties: Communist song, Internationale ; V.I. Lenin ; President Warren Harding ; Humorist W.C. Fields ; Radio commercial with song, Mean to me ; Sound of Model T Ford; Mrs. Robert Goddard describing the flight of the first rocket ; American welcoming Charles Lindbergh after his flight alone across the Atlantic ; Charles Lindbergh ; President Calvin Coolidge ; Closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange -- The thirties: President Herbert Hoover ; Bonus marcher ; President Franklin Roosevelt ; Humorist Will Rogers ; Nazi song, Horst Wessel ; Adolf Hitler ; Prime minister Neville Chamberlain ; Robert Trout, CBS, reporting on the evacuation of London at the start of World War II ; Waterloo Station, London, as children are evacuated -- The forties (the beginning): Nazis conquering the continent, sounds of dive bombers and air raid and German radio proclaiming victory ; Winston Churchill ; Edward R. Murrow, CBS, reporting during air raid alert in London ; Charles Lindbergh ; President Franklin Roosevelt ; British reporter describing convoy under attack in the Atlantic ; John Daly, CBS, broadcasting first report of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ; President Franklin Roosevelt ; General Douglas MacArthur in Australia ; General Dwight D. Eisenhower, D Day, the invasion of Europe ; Edward R. Murrow, CBS, reporting on the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald -- The forties (the end): Arthur Godfrey, CBS, describing President Roosevelt's funeral cortege ; Chaplain William Downey praying on Tinian Island before the departure of the first atomic bombing mission ; President Harry Truman ; Robert Trout, CBS, announcing the end of World War II ; General Douglas MacArthur accepting the Japanese surrender ; Atomic test at Binini Atoll ; Winston Churchill -- The fifties: Sound of Sputnik One in space ; Korean War sounds ; U.S. spokesman telling the United Nations of the North Korean invasion of South Korea ; U.S. soldier describing combat in Korea ; Congressman Joseph Martin introducing General Dwight Eisenhower ; Eisenhower accepting the Republican presidential nomination ; Vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon ; Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ; Kremlin bells, Moscow Radio announcing the death of Joseph Stalin ; Radio Budapest reporting the Soviet invasion of Hungary ; President Harry Truman ; Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas -- The sixties: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Song, We shall overcome ; Chants of "black power" ; Rap Brown ; President John Kennedy ; Havana Radio broadcasting anti-American song ; Moscow Radio reporting the withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba ; Ron Jenkins, KBOX, describing scene in Dallas after the shooting of President Kennedy ; Ike Pappas, WNEW, describing the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald ; Cardinal Cushing at the burial of President Kennedy -- Taps ; Richard Threlkeld, CBS, Talking to soldiers in combat in Viet Nam ; Chants of "stop the war" ; President Lyndon Johnson ; Spokesman in Carnegie Hall announcing the murder of Dr. King ; Andrew West, KRKD, describing the shooting of Senator Robert Kennedy ; Reid Collins, CBS, with the countdown for the Apollo Eleven landing on the moon ; Houston Control and the astronauts guiding their spacecraft to the landing on the moon ; Neil Armstrong taking the first step on the moon ; Dr. Paul Ehrlich ; Salt Lake City Mormon Tabernacle Choir at Richard Nixon's inauguration as President ; President Richard Nixon
label: Repository Loc.
content: Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington, D.C. 20024. Call 202-633-7322 for appointment. Fax: 202-633-7019. Email: rinzlerarchives@si.edu
place: label: Place
content: United States
topic: label: Topic
content: Popular music
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content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection, 1939-1986 228428
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Local number
content: Scholastic.12009
label: Local number
content: FW-ASCH-LP-1918
objectType: label: Type
content: Musical sound recordings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only
physicalDescription: label: Physical description
content: 1 phonograph record : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in