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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)
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  • Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)

    Bobby Kennedy's assassination, 1968

    09/6/1968 | 13 min

    An eyewitness account of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles, and the collective-guilt aftermath for America.

  • Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)

    1000th letter - American reactions to Vietnam, 1968

    24/3/1968 | 14 min

    The national mood begins to change over the Vietnam war - how America began to move from early indifference to the recognition of a nightmare.

  • Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)

    Christmas 1967

    24/12/1967 | 13 min

    Senator Jacob Javits' parking fine, Mayor Lindsay and the water commissioner, and a President Truman Christmas story.

  • Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)

    Honeymoon with President Johnson, 1966

    21/8/1966 | 14 min

    Democracy demonstrated - how the President of the United States had to make way for Mr Meyer Sugarman's wedding night.

  • Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)

    The LA Watts riots, 1965

    22/8/1965 | 14 min

    The Watts riots in Los Angeles - were they an uprising by black Americans angry at their treatment or simply criminally motivated looting and violence?

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The assassinations of John F Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy through to Vietnam and America’s shame at the My Lai massacre. A fascinating social, cultural and political history of American life, through the words of British-American journalist and broadcaster, Alistair Cooke (1908 – 2004).
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