AMERICAN HISTORY reel-to-reel series
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| Reel | Programs | Pages | Titles |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-1705 | 9 | 1 | The Cause of the Civil War · Harvard and the American Revolution. · Allied Strategy in World War II. · Pearl Harbor · Drafting the Constitution. · Episodes of American History written for Children. Including: Washington's Inauguration; The President's Mansion (John Adam's Family at Home); The Mansion is Burned; The Civil War; Teddy & Quinton Roosevelt; The Wilson Girls; A Fireside Chat. · Colonial Period to 1774 · 1775 - 1789 · 1789 - 1829 |
| R-1716 | 11 | 1 | From before Columbus to Walking on the Moon. · Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1st Inaugural Address. 3/4/33; 2nd IA. 1/2/37; 3rd IA. 1/2/41 · Harry S. Truman · excerpts from Inaugural Address 1/20/49; 2nd ID. 1/21/57 · Inaugural address 1/20/61 · May 1962 speech to Corps of Cadets. · United Nations: Oct. 25 · 1962 · Harry S. Truman speaking frankly with Ben Gradus. · Post-war Policy; Labor; Brannan Plan; Nazi Concentration Camps; Israel; Segregation; 1948 Election; Puerto Rico; NATO; McCarthy Era; Berlin Crisis; Atomic Energy; H-Bomb; Korea; Gen. MacArthur; Iran; Retirement. · The Society · Political Life |
| R-1717 | 34 | 1 | COLUMBUS & THE NEW WORLD Dramatization of what it was like to Sail with Columbus · LET FREEDOM RING Documentary on the escalation of militant sentiment in the Colonies · POCAHONTAS & CAPT. JOHN SMITH; THE WINTER AT VALLEY FORGE (Enrichment Records) · THE DECADES: 1950's "Political Life" · ON THE RECORD: Events of 1977 Compiled by the UP International Audio News · A New President- Jimmy Carter; Sadat & Begin- A new Era in the Mideast · The World loses 5 Giants in the Entertainment World: Elvis Presley 8/16/77 · Groucho Marx 8/19/77; Bing Crosby 10/14/77; Charlie Chaplin 12/25/77; and · Guy Lombardo 11/5/77 · Sports 1977: Pele's Final game; Great Horse Switch; Ali & "The Acorn"; Seattle · Slew; Yankees win the World Series · Weather Crisis hits the U.S.; Earthquake rocks Bucharest; Hanafi Muslims Terrorize · Washington; History's worst Aviation Disaster (Two 747's collide); Disaster in · Kentucky Nightclub fire; Anita Bryant & the Gay Movement · 1977 Continued: Alaska Pipeline Opens; Black-out hits NYC; Son of Sam Captured in · NY; First free flight for Space Shuttle; Voyager Spacecraft heads for Jupiter · Bert Lance quits; G Gordon Liddy freed from Prison; Terrorist Epidemic; Senators · visit Panama Canal; UN & South Africa; Women on the move in Houston; Farmer's · Strike; Police hunt L.A. hillside strangler; U.S. & Mexico exchange prisoners · ON THE RECORD: Events of 1978: · View from the Oval Room; Quest for Mid-East Peace; Political Terrorism; Panama · Canal Treaties; the Vatican; Sports highlights; First Nuclear Crisis of the Spaceage · Winter Weather Disasters; World's greatest Aerialist falls to death; Proposition 13 · and the Tax Revolt; Andrew Young stirs up another storm; Nixon in Kentucky · World's 1st Test-tube baby; 1st Transatlantic balloon crossing; Horst Air Disaster in · U.S. history; Rhodesia invades Zambia; Violence in Iran; The Jonestown Horror · Assassinations in San Francisco; Golda Meir dies · THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST By: David Halberstam · The Best and the Brightest (concluded) · VALLEY FORGE Roots of America · AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS Read by: Clifton Fadiman · (7:11) The Declaration of Independence · (0:45) The Preamble to the Constitution · (2:50) The Gettysburg Address |