Excerpts of speeches made at the first AFL-CIO Joint Convention after the merger. The convention took place on December 5, 1955. Contact UMD's Special Collections at askhornbake@umd.edu for more information about the AFL-CIO archive or for the more recording of the first Convention.

AFL-CIO President George Meany's Speech to the First AFL-CIO Convention (Part II)

AFL-CIO President George Meany's Speech to the First AFL-CIO Convention (Part I)

USW President Dave McDonald, Report of the Joint AFL-CIO Unity Committee

Bald Rapunzel On Third Rail Radio, February 29, 1998

Craig Allen Interview With Don McLean Interview, Spring 1971

John Lennon Station ID

Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot outside a Memphis hotel on April 4, 1968. As with the assassination of President Kennedy five years earlier, journalists and reporters assembled the facts as quickly as they could, scrambling to break updates to a horrified public. The reporters working for the Westinghouse News Bureau (also known as “Group W”) in Washington, D.C. were among them.
At the Library of American Broadcasting, the Westinghouse Tape Morgue is one of the most unique audiovisual collections in the archives. Spanning the 1960s and 70s, these 7” reel-to-reel magnetic tapes contain thousands of voice cuts and interviews from members of every branch of the federal government, as well as political leaders and activists of the era. This raw material was a vital source for the network’s news broadcasts. 
The clips featured here from an April 4, 1968 tape show how the day’s reports continuously developed with additional details about the circumstances of the assassination. One of them reveals a more behind-the-scenes glimpse into the arduous and frustrating process of trying to track down a story.

6 - Memphis Curfew, Suspects In Custody

5 - President Lyndon Johnson Statement

Portia Faces Life, 6 - 7-44, Mona Kent Papers

Helen Sioussat, Table Talk 11 - 26 - 41, Helen Sioussat Papers

FDR Fireside Chat - Coal Crisis, 5 - 2-43, LAB Audio Collection

Election Returns 1920 - KDKA, LAB Audio Collection

Camel Cigarette Ad, 1965, RAB Collection

Ranier Ale Ad Feat. Pearl Bailey, 1965, RAB Collection

Neil Armstrong reports no difficulty adjusting to the 1/6 gravity of the moon.

Neil Armstrong Talks About Gravity

Correspondent Stan Brooks interviews Buster Crabbe, the star of sci-fi serial Flash Gordon (1936), who talks about Hollywood’s version of space travel

Stan Brooks interviews Flash Gordon about space travel

Reporters share a clip of John F. Kennedy’s speech at Rice University in 1962 in which he responded to critics who asked why we must go to the moon

Kennedy Speech On Why Travel to Space

Neil Armstrong Is Standing On The Moon

White House Correspondent Jim McManus reports from the Nixon White House

Hornbake Library is the home of the University of Maryland archive and  special collections, including the Gordon W. Prange Collection, the AFL-CIO Archive, and Special Collections in Mass Media and Culture.

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