Various Artists - Great Moments of the 20th Century

Type:	Other - Spokenword
Released:	August 15, 2000
Length:	3:53:57
Label:	Rhino

Disc 1
01.	Inventor Marconi Talks About Sending the First Transatlantic Radio Transmission (1936)	Guglielmo Marconi	1:02
02.	The Double-Sided Record New From the Columbia Graphophone Company Offers Improved Sound and Durability (1904)	[unknown]	1:59
03.	Inventor Thomas Edison Announces the Age of Electricity (1908)	Thomas Edison	1:03
04.	Commander Robert E. Peary Expounds on the Allure of Arctic Exploration (1909)	Robert E. Peary	0:47
05.	Survivor Gives Harrowing Account of the RMS Titanic Disaster (1936)	[unknown]	2:25
06.	Presidential Candidate Woodrow Wilson Makes the Case for a Living Wage (1912)	Woodrow Wilson	1:35
07.	British Member of Parliament Horatio Bottomley Asserts That We Are Witnessing That Greatest Armageddon (1915)	Horatio Bottomley	0:54
08.	American Federation of Labor President Samuel Gompers Explains U.S. Efforts in World War I (1916)	Samuel Gompers	1:12
09.	Blackjack Commander of American Expeditionary Forces in France General J.J. ‘Blackjack’ Pershing Asks For… (1917)	John J. Pershing	0:32
10.	Former Ambassador to Germany James Gerard Challenges German-Americans’ Loyalty in the Face of Conflict (1917)	James Watson Gerard III	0:50
11.	News Report: Talking Film an Explanation of Inventor Lee De Forest’s Principles of Talking Film (1922)	[no artist]	0:41
12.	Attorney Clarence Darrow Proclaims ‘The Real Cause of Crime Is 'Poverty, Ignorance, Hard Luck, and…’ (1924)	Clarence Darrow	1:35
13.	Humorist Will Rogers Muses on His Entry in the Congressional Record (1925)	Will Rogers	1:40
14.	Aviator Charles Lindbergh Reflects on the First Ever Transatlantic Flight (1927)	Charles Lindbergh	0:58
15.	As the Threat of War Once Again Looms Over Europe Winston Churchill Asks ‘What Are We to Do?’ (1934)	Winston Churchill	1:50
16.	Expatriate Author Henry Miller Reads From His Controversial Book ‘Tropic of Cancer’ (1969)	Henry Miller	0:58
17.	Louisiana Senator Huey Long Criticizes the Current Roosevelt Administration (1935)	Huey Pierce Long	1:19
18.	Indian Leader Mohandas Gandhi Shares His Beliefs (1935)	Mahatma Gandhi	0:40
19.	President Franklin D Roosevelt Visits Dust Bowl States and Vows to Save the American Farming Family (1936)	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1:45
20.	Physicist Albert Einstein Asserts That Modern Man Is Detached From the World Because of Technology (1936)	Albert Einstein	2:31
21.	King Edward VIII Announces His Abdication of the Throne and Declares Allegiance to His Brother, King George VI (1936)	King Edward VIII	1:17
22.	News Report: Disaster News Coverage of the Hindenburg Airship Disaster (1937)	[no artist]	1:33
23.	News Report: The Old Man and the Mouse: Mickey Mouse Turns 10 Years Old (1937)	[no artist]	1:03
24.	Philip Civil Rights Activist Asa Philip Randolph Pleas for Social and Racial Justice (1937)	A. Philip Randolph	1:02
25.	News Report: Aviator Howard Hughes and Crew Successfully Complete World’s First Transglobal Flight (1938)	[no artist]	1:08
26.	Sigmund Freud Discusses Psychoanalysis (1938)	Sigmund Freud	1:16
27.	Dramatist and Critic George Bernard Shaw Defines the Pacifist Movement (1938)	George Bernard Shaw	2:01
28.	President Franklin D Roosevelt Commemorates the Nations of the World at the New York World’s Fair (1939)	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1:37
29.	Author Margaret Mitchell Expresses Gratitude Over Winning Pulitzer Prize for ‘Gone With the Wind’ (1939)	Margaret Mitchell	0:40
30.	News Report: London Evacuation Broadcaster Edward R Murrow Reports Plans for the Evacuation of Children From London (1939)	Edward R. Murrow	1:38
31.	Nazi Germany Announces Blitzkrieg Invasion of Poland (1939)	[no artist]	1:15
32.	Nazi Germany Denies Aggression Toward Poland Claiming Self- Defence (1939)	[no artist]	1:26
33.	British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Declares a State of War (1939)	Neville Chamberlain	0:46
34.	German Chancellor Adolf Hitler Condemns Polish Aggression Toward Germans (1939)	Adolf Hitler	2:17
35.	Italian Fascist Leader Benito Mussolini Declares War on the Allied Powers (1940)	Benito Mussolini	1:54
36.	American Journalist William L. Shirer Reports on French Armistice Signing (1940)	William L. Shirer	1:36
37.	Labor Leader John L. Lewis Supports Wendell Willkie for President (1940)	John L. Lewis	1:53
38.	President Franklin D Roosevelt Announces the First Peacetime Draft Lottery (1940)	Franklin D. Roosevelt	0:58
39.	President Franklin D Roosevelt Declares War on Japan (1941)	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1:13
40.	Mayor Fiorello Laguardia Publicizes the New Convenient New York (1942)	Fiorello LaGuardia	1:25
41.	World War II: Announcement of Allied Invasion of North Africa (1942)	[no artist]	0:27
42.	President Franklin D Roosevelt Reports the Allied Armies Liberation of Rome (1944)	Franklin D. Roosevelt	0:23
43.	World War II: First Allied Planes Leave England Leading D-Day Invasion (1944)	[no artist]	1:25
44.	World War II: Report of U.S. Flag Raised Over Island of Iwo Jima (1945)	[no artist]	1:14
45.	World War II: Announcement of Allied Forces Crossing the Rhine River (1945)	[no artist]	0:50
46.	World War II: Report of German Army’s Unconditional Surrender in Italy (1945)	[no artist]	0:47
47.	World War II: Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide (1945)	[no artist]	0:40
48.	World War II: V-E Day Report of German Surrender Ending the War in Europe (1945)	[no artist]	1:14
49.	World War II: V-E Day Celebration in Times Square New York City (1945)	[no artist]	1:54
50.	President Harry Truman Signs the United Nations Charter (1945)	Harry S. Truman	1:20
51.	News Report: Atomic Bomb Report of the U.S. Having Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (1945)	[no artist]	1:09
52.	News Report: V-J Day Report of Japanese Surrender Ending the War in the Pacific (1945)	[no artist]	0:53
53.	British Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill Declares Eastern Europe Behind an Iron Curtain (1946)	Winston Churchill	1:01
54.	News Report: U.S. Census Reveals Postwar Infant Population Boom (1947)	[no artist]	1:09
55.	Secretary of State George C Marshall Announces Plan to Revitalize Postwar European Economy (1947)	George C. Marshall	1:32
56.	News Report: Soviet Blockade of Berlin Thwarted by U.S Air Force Efforts (1948)	[no artist]	0:58
57.	United Nations Representative Abba Eban Comments on Israel’s Nationhood (1948)	Abba Eban	1:19
58.	President Harry Truman Mocks Naysayer Journalists in Election Victory Speech (1948)	Harry S. Truman	1:50
59.	News Report: White House Issues Statement That Soviet Union Has Atomic Bomb (1949)	[no artist]	0:15
60.	News Report: Pennant Clinched Bobby Thompson Secures New York Giants’ National League Pennant Win With Game-Clinching Home Run (1951)	[no artist]	1:33
61.	Baseball Great Joe Dimaggio Announces His Retirement (1951)	Joe DiMaggio	0:36
62.	Vice-Presidential Candidate Richard M Nixon Defends Himself Against Allegations of Mishandled Campaign (1952)	Richard Nixon	1:28
63.	News Report: Stalin Dies Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin Dies at Age 73 (1953)	[no artist]	0:26
Disc 2
01.	News Report: Atomic Bomb Testing Continues (1953)	[no artist]	1:59
02.	News Report: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain (1953)	[no artist]	0:53
03.	News Report: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Are Denied Clemency (1953)	[no artist]	2:22
04.	President Dwight D Eisenhower Announces End to Korean Conflict (1953)	Dwight D. Eisenhower	0:46
05.	Author Ray Bradbury Provides More Positive Outlook on Future Than His Book ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Suggests (1958)	Ray Bradbury	1:04
06.	President Dwight D Eisenhower Assures There Will Be Further Development of Polio Vaccine (1954)	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1:06
07.	News Report: Congressmen Provide Conflicting Viewpoint on School Desegregation (1954)	[no artist]	1:59
08.	Senator Joseph McCarthy Presides at House Unamerican Activities Hearings (1954)	Joseph McCarthy	2:34
09.	New York Giants Manager Leo Derocher States Strong Leadership Is a Baseball Team's Top Asset (1954)	Leo Durocher	1:14
10.	Author Ernest Hemingway Delivers Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (1954)	Ernest Hemingway	1:21
11.	Cleveland Disc Jockey Alan Freed at the Top of His Form Hosting ‘The Moondog Show’ (1954)	Alan Freed	0:54
12.	Ensure Your Safety With the Purchase of This Nuclear Survival Course Record Album; Supplies Are Limited (1954)	[unknown]	1:49
13.	James Dean Discusses His Craft on the Set of ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ (1954)	James Dean	0:57
14.	News Report: Music Experts Squabble Over the Meaning of Rock and Roll (1956)	[no artist]	2:15
15.	News Report: Baseball Yankees Pitcher Don Larsen Delivers First Perfect Game in World Series History (1956)	[no artist]	1:54
16.	News Report: Hungarian Revolt Crushed by Soviets (1956)	[no artist]	1:10
17.	News Report: What Do We Know About Cuban Revolutionary Fidel Castro (1957)	[no artist]	1:04
18.	Althea Gibson Becomes First Black Athlete to Win Wimbledon Tennis Championship (1957)	Althea Gibson	0:26
19.	President Dwight D Eisenhower Denounces Arkansas Efforts to Enforce School Segregation (1957)	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1:07
20.	Black Politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr Speeks Out on Notion of Freedom (1957)	Adam Clayton Powell, Jr	1:54
21.	News Report: United States Successfully Launches First Orbiting Satellite ‘Explorer I’ (1958)	[no artist]	1:06
22.	Author Lorraine Hansberry Discusses Her Play ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ (1959)	Lorraine Hansberry	1:04
23.	News Report: NASA Introduces First Seven Astronauts for Project Mercury (1959)	[no artist]	0:55
24.	News Report: Cuban Premier Fidel Castro Visits U.S. for First Time (1959)	[no artist]	1:08
25.	Author Allan Ginsberg and Anthropologist Margaret Mead Discuss Origins of the Term ‘Beat Generation’ (1959)	Allen Ginsberg & Margaret Mead	2:17
26.	Candidates Debate Presidential Candidates John F Kennedy and Richard M Nixon Square Off in Televised Debate (1960)	John F. Kennedy & Richard Nixon	2:12
27.	President-Elect John F Kennedy Wins Narrow-Margin Victory (1960)	John F. Kennedy	0:56
28.	President Dwight D Eisenhower Delivers ‘Military Industrial Complex’ Farewell Speech (1961)	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1:14
29.	President John F Kennedy Addresses Nation With Inaugural Speech (1961)	John F. Kennedy	1:04
30.	News Report: Bay of Pigs Invasion Denounced at United Nations Address (1961)	[no artist]	0:42
31.	Federal Communications Commission Chairman Decries Television as a Vast Wasteland (1961)	Newton Minow	1:19
32.	News Report: The Birth of the Berlin Wall (1961)	[no artist]	0:43
33.	News Report: Launch of the Telstar Satellite Ushers in Age of High Speed Communications Technology (1962)	[no artist]	1:09
34.	Author John Steinbeck Discusses Winning Nobel Prize for Literature (1962)	John Steinbeck	1:20
35.	News Report: Debut of the World’s First Talking/Singing Computer (1962)	[no artist]	0:58
36.	President John F Kennedy Visits the Berlin Wall and Rallies Anti-Communist Support (1963)	John F. Kennedy	2:19
37.	News Report: President John F Kennedy Assassinated (1963)	[no artist]	3:52
38.	News Report: JFK Assassination Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald Is Shot (1963)	[no artist]	3:19
39.	News Report: North Vietnamese Vessels Attack United States Navy in Gulf of Tonkin (1964)	[no artist]	1:16
40.	Activist Mario Savio Speaks Out on University of California at Berkeley ‘Educational Tyranny’ (1964)	Mario Savio	1:34
41.	News Report: Reports Confirm Soviet Communist Party Personnel Shake-Up (1964)	[no artist]	1:17
42.	Activist Whitney Young Talks in Selma Alabama on the Importance of the Black Vote (1965)	Whitney Young	0:45
43.	News Report: Racial Violence Breaks Out in Watts District of Los Angeles (1965)	[no artist]	1:16
44.	News Report: Vietnamese Radio Propaganda Queen ‘Hanoi Hannah’ Broadcasts to United States Troops (1966)	[no artist]	0:27
45.	Dr Christiaan Barnard Performs First Human Heart Transplant (1967)	Christiaan Barnard	1:30
46.	Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir Articulates Israel’s Need for Peace (1967)	Golda Meir	0:36
47.	Senator Robert Kennedy Announces Presidential Candidacy (1968)	Robert F. Kennedy	0:57
48.	President Lyndon B Johnson Declines Nomination for Re-Election (1968)	Lyndon B. Johnson	0:38
49.	Martin Luther King Jr Stirs Memphis Audience With ‘Mountain Top’ Speech (1968)	Martin Luther King, Jr.	1:02
50.	News Report: Senator Robert Kennedy Is Assassinated (1968)	[no artist]	1:20
51.	News Report: Soviets Invade Czechoslovakia (1968)	[no artist]	0:35
52.	News Report: Riots Break Out at 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention (1968)	[no artist]	2:07
53.	News Report: Apollo 8 Astronauts Conduct Christmas Eve Broadcast (1968)	[no artist]	0:35
54.	Mickey Mantle Gives Farewell Speech to Yankees Fans (1969)	Mickey Mantle	0:39
55.	Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong Broadcasts Man’s First Steps on Moon (1969)	Neil Armstrong	0:14
56.	Beatle Paul McCartney Refutes Rumors of His Death (1969)	Paul McCartney	0:33
57.	News Report: Thousands of Protesters Show Support on Vietnam Moratorium Day (1969)	[no artist]	0:48
58.	Vice President Spiro Agnew Lashes Out Against ‘The Media Elite’ (1969)	Spiro Agnew	1:46
Disc 3
01.	Commander James A. Lovell, Jr Reports From Apollo 13: ‘Houston We’ve Had a Problem’ (1970)	James A. Lovell, Jr	0:15
02.	National Voting Age Is Lowered to 18 (1970)	[unknown]	0:40
03.	New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug Testimonial on the Equal Rights Amendment (1970)	Bella Abzug	0:47
04.	National Organization of Women Founder Betty Friedan Speaks Out During the ‘Women’s Strike for Equal Rights’ (1970)	Betty Friedan	2:10
05.	President Richard M. Nixon Announces Plans to Visit Communist China (1971)	Richard Nixon	0:24
06.	Future British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Cites the Ability of Women to Succeed in Government (1971)	Margaret Thatcher	1:13
07.	United Nations Officially Recognizes Peoples Republic of China (1971)	[unknown]	1:13
08.	Governor Ronald Reagan Views George Wallace Assassination Attempt as Outgrowth of Hatred in America (1972)	Ronald Reagan	1:39
09.	Olympic Athletes Are Taken Hostage in Munich (1972)	[unknown]	1:02
10.	Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Announces ‘Peace Is at Hand’ In Vietnam (1972)	Henry Kissinger	1:00
11.	Court Decision Legalizes Abortion in Roe v Wade (1973)	[unknown]	1:28
12.	Members of American Indian Movement Take Over Wounded Knee South Dakota (1973)	[unknown]	0:34
13.	Dispute at White House Over Release of Watergate Tapes (1973)	[unknown]	1:06
14.	President Richard M Nixon Concedes ‘One Can Only Be Angry With Those He Respects’ (1973)	Richard Nixon	2:27
15.	President Richard M Nixon’s Resignation ‘I Have Never Been a Quitter’ (1974)	Richard Nixon	1:13
16.	President Richard M Nixon Bids Farewell to His White House Staff (1974)	Richard Nixon	1:53
17.	President Gerald Ford Gives Inaugural Speech (1974)	Gerald Ford	1:12
18.	South Vietnam Surrenders to Vietcong (1975)	[unknown]	0:36
19.	Exiled Russian Novelist Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn Addresses Harvard Graduating Class (1975)	Александр Солженицын	0:52
20.	Astronaut Thomas Stafford and Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov Seal Joint Mission With Handshake in Space (1975)	[unknown]	0:54
21.	Egyptian President Anwar El-Sadat Gives Goodwill Address to Congress (1975)	Anwar El-Sadat	1:37
22.	Congresswoman Barbara Jordan Becomes First Black Woman to Deliver the Keynote Address at the Democratic Convention (1976)	[unknown]	1:02
23.	Viking I Travels 500 Million Miles to Land on Mars (1976)	[unknown]	0:54
24.	Former Beatle John Lennon Finally Wins Residency Status in United States (1976)	John Lennon	1:37
25.	Outbreak of Legionnaires Disease (1976)	[unknown]	0:50
26.	Space Shuttle Enterprise Passes First Flight Test (1977)	[unknown]	1:15
27.	Elvis Presley Dies at 42 (1977)	[unknown]	0:42
28.	The Observations of San Francisco Politician Harvey Milk (1978)	Harvey Milk	0:30
29.	Pope John Paul I Dies Suddenly (1978)	[unknown]	0:44
30.	San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Dianne Feinstein Discloses the Murders of Mayor George (1978)	Dianne Feinstein	0:29
31.	President Jimmy Carter Discusses Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty (1979)	Jimmy Carter	0:37
32.	Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh Advises Citizens of Possible Radioactivity After Three Mile Island (1979)	Dick Thornburgh	0:37
33.	Entrepreneur Ted Turner Officially Inaugurates the Cable News Network (1980)	Ted Turner	0:54
34.	Labor Unrest in Poland (1980)	[unknown]	0:16
35.	President Jimmy Carter Announces Release of 52 American Hostages in Iran (1981)	Jimmy Carter	0:34
36.	Conflicting Announcement of the Assassination Attempt on President Ronald Reagan (1981)	[unknown]	1:47
37.	Assassin Wounds Pope John Paul II (1981)	[unknown]	1:01
38.	President Ronald Reagan Lays Down the Law to Striking Air Traffic Controllers (1981)	Ronald Reagan	0:31
39.	Britain and Argentina at War Over Falkland Islands (1982)	[unknown]	1:10
40.	Soviets Down Korean Airlines Flight 007 (1983)	[unknown]	0:25
41.	Report of U.S. Invasion From Grenada (1983)	[unknown]	0:26
42.	Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (1986)	[unknown]	2:34
43.	President Ronald Reagan Denies Allegations of Secret Deals With Iran (1986)	Ronald Reagan	1:03
44.	1988 Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Lloyd Bentsen to Republican Candidate Dan Quayle ‘Senator, You’re No Jack Kennedy’ (1988)	Lloyd Bentsen	1:25
45.	President Ronald Reagan Envisions ‘The Shining City’ (1989)	Ronald Reagan	1:01
46.	Report of Chinese Government Response to Student Revolt From Tiananmen Square Beijing (1989)	[unknown]	1:44
47.	Operation Desert Storm Begins (1991)	[unknown]	1:37
48.	Law Professor Anita Hill Testifies Against Judge Clarence Thomas in Senate Confirmation Hearings (1991)	Anita Hill	2:31
49.	Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Gives His Testimony (1991)	Clarence Thomas	2:06
50.	Verdict Observations About the Rodney King Verdict and Ensuing Riots in Los Angeles (1992)	[unknown]	1:38
51.	California State Senator Diane Watson Seeks Culpability for the Los Angeles Riots (1992)	Diane Watson	1:13
52.	Motorist Rodney King Implores ‘Can’t We All Get Along’ (1992)	Rodney King	0:11
53.	FBI Tactical Briefing Concerning the Branch Davidians Compound in Waco Texas (1993)	[unknown]	1:23
54.	Nelson Mandela Speaks on Eve of South Africa’s Presidential Election (1994)	Nelson Mandela	1:33
55.	President Bill Clinton Condemns Bombing on Oklahoma City (1995)	Bill Clinton	0:29
56.	Verdict Reading of OJ Simpson Trial Verdict (1995)	[unknown]	1:32
57.	Noa Ben-Artziphilosof Gives Eulogy for Grandfather Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1995)	Noa Rothman	1:04
58.	General Colin Powell Declines Bid for Presidency (1995)	Colin Powell	1:26
59.	Unabomber Suspect Theodore Kaczynski Is Apprehended (1996)	[unknown]	0:36
60.	Richard Jewell Denies Being Responsible for the Bomb Explosion at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta (1996)	Richard Jewell	0:47
61.	British Scientist Ian Wilmut Discusses Human Cloning (1997)	Ian Wilmut	2:08
62.	Britain Returns Conservatorship of Hong Kong to China (1997)	[unknown]	1:06
63.	Diana Princess of Wales Dies in Car Crash (1997)	[unknown]	0:29
64.	Linda Tripp Records Monica Lewinski (1997)	Monica Lewinski	2:26
65.	President Bill Clinton Avows ‘I Did Not Have Sex With That Woman Miss Lewinski’ (1998)	Bill Clinton	0:41
66.	President Bill Clinton Testifies His Explanation Was ‘Legally Accurate’ (1998)	Bill Clinton	0:31
67.	Mark McGwire Breaks Roger Maris’ Single Season Home Run Record (1998)	[unknown]	0:29
68.	U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Appeals for ‘Peace Over War’ In Kosovo (1999)	Kofi Annan	0:52
69.	U.S. Returns Convervatorship of the Panama Canal Back to Panama (1999)	[unknown]	0:41
70.	Record Breaking Stock Exchange Frenzy Continues (1999)	[unknown]	0:28
71.	President Bill Clinton Observes the Dawning of the New Millennium (1999)	Bill Clinton	2:16
72.	The Celebration of New Year’s Eve 1999 Times Square (1999)	[unknown]	0:24