Letter from America: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)

13 Episoden

Bobby Kennedy's assassination, 1968
09.06.1968 | 13 Min.
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 | 14 Min.
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 | 13 Min.
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 | 14 Min.
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 | 14 Min.
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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The assassinations of John F Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy through to Vietnam and America’s shame at the My Lai massacre. A fascinating social, cultural and political history of American life, through the words of British-American journalist and broadcaster, Alistair Cooke (1908 – 2004).

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