Research Catalog

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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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.

Subject

• Disasters > Press coverage
• Radio journalism
• Television broadcasting of news
• Toussaint, Jean-Philippe 1957-

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