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The Incredible Century, Vol. III

The Incredible Century, Vol. III

1970-1999


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Abridged Edition
Running Time
1 Hr. 19 Min.

Description

Collects Speeches and recorded News accounts from the years 1970 to 1999. Hear speeches, news broadcasts and other direct sources that give you access to history as it happened. This selection includes the following recordings made in the later half of the century:

  • Apollo 13 trouble – 4/13/70
  • Voting Age Lowered to 18 – 6/22/70
  • Bela Abzug on Equal Rights Amendment – 8/70
  • Women’s Equality Day – Betty Friedan – 8/26/70
  • Pres. Nixon announces visit to China – 4/29/71
  • Margaret Thatcher on Women in Government – 1971
  • United Nations recognizes Red China – 11/15/71
  • Governor Reagan remarks on assassination attempt of George Wallace 5/15/72
  • Olympic Hostage drama – 9/5/72
  • Henry Kissinger β€œPeace Is At Hand” – 10/26/72
  • Roe V. Wade abortion issue – 1/22/73
  • Wounded Knee Indian takeover – 2/28/73
  • Watergate tapes dispute – 10/20/73
  • Nixon versus the Press – 10/26/73
  • Nixon resigns – 8/4/74
  • Nixon bids farewell to his staff – 8/9/74
  • President Ford swearing in - 8/9/74
  • South Vietnam falls to Viet Cong – 4/29/75
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn address Harvard graduating class – 6/30/75
  • Apollo/Soyuz handshake in space – 7/17/75
  • Anwar Sadat Addresses Congress – 11/5/75
  • Barbara Jordan addresses Democratic Convention – 7/12/76
  • Viking I lands on Mars – 7/20/76
  • John Lennon wins residency in U.S. – 7/27/76
  • Legionnaire’s Disease outbreak – 8/4/76
  • Space Shuttle Enterprise passes first test – 8/12/77
  • Elvis Presley dies – 8/16/77
  • San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk – 6/78
  • Pope John Paul I dies – 8/16/78
  • Dianne Feinstein on murders of Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone – 11/27/78
  • Pres. Carter discsusses Egypt/Israeli peace settlement – 3/26/79
  • Three Mile Island nuclear Power accident – 3/28/79
  • Cable News Network inaugurated – 6/1/80
  • Solidarity Movement in Poland – 8/14/80
  • Release of 52 American Hostages in Iran – 1/20/81
  • Pres. Reagan assassination attempt – 3/30/81
  • Assassination attempt of Pope John Paul II – 5/13/81
  • Pres. Reagan and striking Air-Traffic Controllers – 8/3/81
  • Britain and Argentina at war over Falkland Islands – 5/82
  • Koreal Airlines Flight 007 downing – 9/1/83
  • U.S. invades Grenada – 10/25/83
  • Shuttle Challenger disaster – 1/28/86
  • Pres. Reagan – Iran/Contra – 11/19/86
  • Vice Presidential contender Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle – 10/5/88
  • Pres. Reagan – Inaugural for 2nd term – 1/19/89
  • Tiananmen Square violence in Beijing – 6/4/89
  • Operation Desert Storm begins – 1/16/91
  • Anita Hill Testifies during Clarence Thomas confirmation – 10/11/91
  • Clarence Thomas refutes charges by Hill – 10/11/91
  • Los Angeles riots – 4/29/92
  • Senator Diane Watson on L.A. Riots – 4/30/92
  • Rodney King speaks out – 5/1/92
  • FBI briefing on Waco Texas siege – 4/93
  • Nelson Mandela on eve of South Africa elections – 4/29/94
  • Pres. Clinton condemnation of Oklahoma City bombings – 4/19/95
  • OJ Simpson trial verdict – 10/3/95
  • Noa Ben-Artzi Philosof gives eulogy for her assassinated grandfather Yitzhak Rabin – 11/6/95
  • Colin Powell declines bid for presidency – 11/8/95
  • Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski – 4/3/96
  • Richard Jewel, suspect in Olympic Village bombing – 10/28/96
  • Ian Wilmut discusses possibility of Human cloning – 4/15/97
  • Britain returns Hong Kong to China – 6/30/97
  • Princess Diana dies in Paris – 8/31/97
  • Linda Tripp records conversation with Monica Lewinsky – 10/16/97
  • Pres. Clinton denies affair with β€œMiss Lewinsky” – 1/26/98
  • Pres. Clinton clarifies the Lewinsky affair – 8/17/98
  • Mark McGwire breaks homerun record – 9/8/98
  • U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan appeals for peace in Kosovo – 3/24/99
  • U.S. returns conservatorship of Panama Canal to Panama – 12/31/99
  • Stock Market buying frenzy – 12/31/99
  • Pres. Clinton observes dawning of β€œNew Millenium” – 12/31/99
  • Times Square – New Years Eve – 12/31/99

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