Letter From America By Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s And 1960s)

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Sinopse

The assassination of JFK through to Vietnam and Americas shame at the My Lai massacre. Alistair Cooke's fascinating social, cultural and political history of American life.

Episódios

  • Bobby Kennedy's assassination, 1968

    09/06/1968 Duração: 13min

    An eyewitness account of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles, and the collective-guilt aftermath for America.

  • 1000th letter - American reactions to Vietnam, 1968

    24/03/1968 Duração: 14min

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

  • Christmas 1967

    24/12/1967 Duração: 13min

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

  • Honeymoon with President Johnson, 1966

    21/08/1966 Duração: 14min

    Democracy demonstrated - how the President of the United States had to make way for Mr Meyer Sugarman's wedding night.

  • The LA Watts riots, 1965

    22/08/1965 Duração: 14min

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

  • Clay vs Liston Fight

    30/05/1965 Duração: 13min

    How the debacle of the Cassius Clay–Sonny Liston boxing prize fight tarnished one of the elements of American culture - sportsmanship

  • President Johnson's inauguration, 1965

    17/01/1965 Duração: 13min

    President Lyndon B Johnson's inauguration for his own full first term, and some earlier notable inaugurations, including Washington and Jefferson's.

  • Assassination of J F Kennedy, 1963

    24/11/1963 Duração: 14min

    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.

  • Big brains

    21/01/1962 Duração: 13min

    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.

  • 500th letter

    08/09/1957 Duração: 15min

    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.

  • William Kapell (1922-1953)

    05/11/1953 Duração: 13min

    A tribute to American Pianist William Kappell, the best pianist of his generation, and what music means to Americans.

  • Television in America, 1951

    19/01/1951 Duração: 13min

    How a new daily diet of television in America is changing people's lives, as reported by Alistair Cooke.

  • A fragment from 1947

    12/01/1947 Duração: 04min

    A fragment preserved from Cooke's talk, reflecting on the importance of democratic capitalism and a free economy to Americans.