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The Best of NPR: Eyewitness to History
SKU: 1570425841
- Written By: National Public Radio
- Publisher: Time Warner Audiobooks
- Published: November 1997
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| NOTE: This audio book is no longer available = out-of-publication. Now that you are here, we hope you look around. We have 1000s of audio books and would be glad to order any available audiobook you don't see here. We look forward to serving you. This audio book may be available from us in another version, on another format or as a digital - download. Produced by National Public Radio - Nonfiction - 1 CASSETTE - 90 minutes Publisher, Time Warner AudioBooks (1998) Jewish athlete Marty Glickman talks about what it was like to be in Berlin in 1936 for what came to be known as the Nazi Olympics. American soldiers who were among the first to enter Hitler's concentration camps at the end of World War II describe what they saw and felt. Rural Americans remember the moment when electricity transformed their lives. Marian Anderson's historic concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 1939 is recalled by some of those who attended. TV news pioneer Fred Friendly talks about producing the See It Now broadcast on March 9, 1954 that helped bring about the downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy. November 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, is remembered around the country. Former hostage Jackie Pflug, a passenger on Egyptair Flight 648, describes how she survived one the bloodiest plane hijackings in history. Less than a week after the collapse of Nicolai Ceausescu's communist regime, poet Andrei Codrescu returns to his homeland Romania for the first time in 24 years. Goodbye Saigon captures the desperation and panic during the last day of America's involvement in South Vietnam.
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