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