GENERATIONS
WHEN ASKED IF HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT HIS PLACE IN HISTORY WINSTON CHURCHILL REPLIED NO SINCE HE PROPOSED TO “WRITE IT MYSELF.” YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN HISTORY (TO PARAPHRASE TROTSKY) BUT HISTORY IS INTERESTED IN YOU. GENERATIONS ARE THE THROUGH-LINE. IT’S YOUR HISTORY. HELP WRITE IT.
ALEXANDER BUTTERFIELD WATERGATE TESTIMONY 1972
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THE BEATLES – WHEN I’M SIXTY-FOUR
Download the album from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3chFhCP5mQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player also, for fun: This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. Gered was and is a polite, lovely Englishman now living with his wife on the Cornwall coast, in a wistful image reminiscent of the Beatles’ “When I’m 64”. In 2002 we […]
NEIL POSTMAN’S SPEECH TO THE GERMAN…. 1990
Neil Postman: Informing Ourselves to Death The following speech was given at a meeting of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik) on October 11, 1990 in Stuttgart, sponsored by IBM-Germany. The great English playwright and social philosopher George Bernard Shaw once remarked that all professions are conspiracies against the common folk. He meant that […]
TUSKEGEE AIRMEN 1944
This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (Text below from Wikipedia) The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African American pilots who fought in World War II. Formally, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the U.S. […]
BUSH V. GORE 2000 ELECTION
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HAL RINEY CROCKER BANK
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MAD MEN 1957
My father was working as a producer on Your Hit Parade, the earliest music program on television. Over time he moved to Batton, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, one of the ad agencies for the show, which was sponsored by Lucky Strike. My first words, I like to say, were “L.S.M.F.T” (“Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco”). […]
1950s RADIOS
This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See out link policy) Before Elvis I used to lie in bed at night with the lights off, and listen to country music very low on the radio, the tiny orange lights of the tube amplifier shining through the […]
