This was 1949
Dr. Willis Dunbar presents "This Was 1949," a review of local and national news and chart topping songs. Among the news stories Dunbar covers are the inaugurations of President Harry S. Truman and Governor G. Mennen Williams (D-MI), Michigan high school sports, the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, local election results, and the first Soviet atomic bomb test. A series of interviews and sound bytes used in the program follows.
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- In Collections
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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date Published
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1949-12-31
- Speakers
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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Williams, G. Mennen, 1911-1988
Everton, John Scott
Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971
Anderson, Donald
Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952
Martin, John, Jr.
Lie, Trygve, 1896-1968
Campbell, Charles
Robinson, Frankie
Todd, Paul (Paul H.)
Manitz, Janislav
- Broadcasters
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WKZO (Radio station : Kalamazoo, Mich.)
- Subjects
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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Williams, G. Mennen, 1911-1988
North Atlantic Treaty (1949 April 4)
Elections
High schools
Inauguration
Nineteen forty-nine, A.D
Nuclear weapons--Testing
Michigan
Soviet Union
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 01:21:11
- Venue Note
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Broadcast 1949 December 31
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 28867
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b12211521
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