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Remembering George McGovern

November 10, 2012
Remembering George McGovern

James J., 60, is a doctor who lives in Connecticut. The audio interview will tell how James met George McGovern as he campaigned for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination in Massachusetts. Click the red link below left to listen to the interview. Forty years ago, the Democratic Party could not have been in worse disarray. They had succumbed to the new Republican “Southern Strategy” and were left with a small, ultra-liberal core. But George McGovern bravely galloped into battle against Richard Nixon and was soundly thumped. People may not...

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Blab It To The Rabbit – St. Louis, circa 1966

May 4, 2012
Blab It To The Rabbit – St. Louis, circa 1966

Keith R. is a retired Budweiser facilities engineer who has lived in the St. Louis area his whole life. Sometimes when I can’t sleep – surprise at 60, eh? – I lull my brain by thinking back to a guy who was on late nights on St. Louis radio station KXOK: Johnny Rabbit. When I say this guy was funny as all shit, I can’t begin to tell you. This was from about 1964 through ’68. At left: Teens sharing their love of Johnny Rabbit He had this sort...

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History, Live On TV – 1962 to 1969

October 20, 2011
History, Live On TV – 1962 to 1969

Pam T. has lived in the Los Angeles area her whole life and shares her experience of the central role of television played as the conveyor of collective history. I recall waiting for the end of the world by nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis as we watched on TV. I remember President Kennedy being stern but somehow reassuring. Scared out of our wits. Buying canned food at the market and receiving canned water from some kind of army truck I remember distinctly my father rushing home from...

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