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Title
  • We interrupt this broadcast : relive the events that stopped our lives-- from the Hindenburg to the death of Princess Diana / Joe Garner.
Author
Garner, Joe
Publication
Naperville, IL : Sourcebooks, c1998.

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text +2 compact discs.TextRequest in advance XVP 293 text +2 compact discs.Off-site

Details

Additional Authors
  • Cronkite, Walter
  • Kurtis, Bill
Description
xiv, 154 p. : ill.; 28 cm. +
Summary
An illustrated book and two audio CDs provide actual news broadcasts and background information for 38 events of the 20th century.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Compact discs.
Note
  • Audio CD's concist of the actual broadcasts.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Hindenburg explodes -- Pearl Harbor under attack -- D-Day: The Normandy invasion -- President Roosevelt dies -- V-E Day: war in Europe ends -- Atomic bomb destroys Hiroshima -- Japan surrenders: WWII ends -- Truman defeats Dewey -- General MacArthur fired -- Sputnik launched by Soviets -- John Glenn orbits Earth -- Marilyn Monroe dies -- Cuban missile crisis: nuclear war threatened -- President Kennedy assassinated -- Lee Harvey Osward assassinated -- President Johnson declines re-election bid -- Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated -- Robert Kennedy assassinated -- Apollo 11: Man walks on Moon -- Apollo 13: astronauts escape disaster -- Kent State massacre -- Munich Olympics tragedy -- Nixon resigns -- Saigon falls -- Elvis dies -- Iran hostage crisis -- John Lennon assassinated -- President Reagan shot -- The Challenger explodes -- Berlin Wall crumbles -- Operation Desert Storm begins -- Rodney King verdict incites riots -- Waco standoff ends in disaster -- O.J. Simpson saga -- Oklahoma City bombing -- Flight 800 explodes over Atlantic -- Atlanta Olympics bombing -- Princess Diana dies.
ISBN
1570713286 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^98017236^
OCLC
38916595
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library