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lfa_1947-1979
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
09.04.13
Über 900 Folgen des legendären wöchentlichen 15-Minuten-Programms, zum 90 Jahr-Jubiläum von der BBC öffentlich zugänglich gemacht: 
ext. Link. Der Nachlass von Alistair Cooke befindet sich in der Boston University/Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center ext. Link
Archivnummern: AP/e_eng/lfa_1947-1979_(Datum)
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| Datum | Datei | Inhalt | Dauer |
| 12.01.1947 | lfa_19470112.mp3 | A fragment from 1947; A fragment preserved from Cooke's talk, reflecting on the importance of democratic capitalism and a free economy to Americans. | 04:29 |
| 12.12.1949 | My first Indian; Alistair Cooke recounts his first proper encounter with a native American in Spring 1947, near Santa Fe. (Thought to be a 1970s re-recording) | ||
| 19.01.1951 | lfa_19510119.mp3 | Television in America, 1951; How a new daily diet of television in America is changing people's lives, as reported by Alistair Cooke. | 13:54 |
| 05.11.1953 | lfa_19531105.mp3 | William Kapell (1922-1953); A tribute to American Pianist William Kappell, the best pianist of his generation, and what music means to Americans | 13:01 |
| 08.09.1957 | lfa_19570908.mp3 | 500th letter; Alistair Cooke remembers Lindsay Wellington, the BBC head who came up with the idea of weekly letters to help people in the UK understand American life in 1946. | 16:00 |
| 21.01.1962 | lfa_19620121.mp3 | Big brains; How New York construction was brought to a halt by the Electrician's Union strike, and why the computer or 'the big brain' will soon change how people work. | 14:00 |
| 24.11.1963 | lfa_19631124.mp3 | Assassination of J F Kennedy, 1963; The assassination of John F Kennedy, the first president of the television age, and the style, grace and fun he brought to the White House. | 15:00 |
| 17.01.1965 | lfa_19650117.mp3 | President Johnson's inauguration, 1965; President Lyndon B Johnson's inauguration for his own full first term, and some earlier notable inaugurations, including Washington and Jefferson's. | 14:00 |
| 30.05.1965 | lfa_19650530.mp3 | Clay vs Liston Fight; How the debacle of the Cassius Clay–Sonny Liston boxing prize fight tarnished one of the elements of American culture - sportsmanship | 14:00 |
| 22.08.1965 | lfa_19650822.mp3 | The LA Watts riots, 1965; The Watts riots in Los Angeles - were they an uprising by black Americans angry at their treatment or simply criminally motivated looting and violence? | 14:00 |
| 21.08.1966 | lfa_19660821.mp3 | Honeymoon with President Johnson, 1966; Democracy demonstrated - how the President of the United States had to make way for Mr Meyer Sugarman's wedding night. | 15:00 |
| 24.12.1967 | lfm_19671224.mp3 | Christmas 1967; Senator Jacob Javits' parking fine, Mayor Lindsay and the water commissioner, and a President Truman Christmas story. | 14:00 |
| 24.03.1968 | lfa_19680324.mp3 | 1000th letter - American reactions to Vietnam, 1968; The national mood begins to change over the Vietnam war - how America began to move from early indifference to the recognition of a nightmare. | 15:00 |
| 09.06.1968 | lfa_19680609.mp3 | Bobby Kennedy's assassination, 1968; An eyewitness account of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles, and the collective-guilt aftermath for America. | 14:00 |
| 30.11.1969 | lfa_19691130.mp3 | The My Lai massacre revealed, 1969; The American reaction to hearing of the horror of the Son My massacre (My Lai) in Vietnam, and parallels with Hiroshima and the Allied devastation of Dresden. | 15:00 |
| 08.08.1970 | lfa_19700808.mp3 | The atom bomb warning of 1939; How Roosevelt was warned of Germany's nuclear threat by two Hungarian refugees from Long Island in 1939, thanks to a boy who liked fishing. | 15:00 |
| 14.11.1970 | lfa_19701114.mp3 | Veteran's Day 1970; Dishonouring the dead: the sad scenes at New York's Hunter College, when acts of Veteran's Day remembrance turned into political stances, and forgot the victims of war. | 15:00 |
| 10.07.1971 | lfa_19710710.mp3 | Louis Armstrong; A tribute to trumpeter Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), his life and music, and how attitudes to jazz have changed since Cooke's teenage years in Blackpool. | 15:00 |
| 18.08.1971 | lfa_19710818.mp3 | Art Buchwald; The wit and wisdom of Art Buchwald, political satirist and columnist for the Washington Post and a modern day Jonathan Swift. | 14:00 |
| 30.10.1971 | lfa_19711030.mp3 | Taiwan and China; Taiwan is out, and China in – why the change of seats in the UN General Assembly is much more than musical chairs. | 15:00 |
| 05.02.1972 | lfa_19720205.mp3 | American reactions to Bloody Sunday, 1972; American reaction to claims of British brutality in Northern Ireland, and an early glimpse into the Kennedy clan. | 14:00 |
| 11.11.1972 | lfa_19721111.mp3 | Richard Nixon re-elected President, 1972; Nixon's landslide victory, how close he came to winning in 1960, and why middle class Americans have been moving to the right as they have fled the city centres for the suburbs. | 14:00 |
| 30.12.1972 | lfa_19721230.mp3 | President Truman (1884–1972); President Truman's life, his Missouri farm childhood, his war service, and how his political skills and achievements may have been overlooked by his critics. | 14:00 |
| 27.01.1973 | lfa_19730127.mp3 | Roe v Wade; Where next for Vietnam, as 18 years of savage fighting comes to an end? And the Supreme Court rules on abortion for all in Roe v Wade. | 14:00 |
| 05.05.1973 | lfa_19730505.mp3 | Watergate hearings 1973; Can the Watergate hearings restore the faith of the people in a system of government that has taken so many beatings? | 15:00 |
| 12.05.1973 | lfa_19730512.mp3 | Watergate reporting; Trial by the press: is the tidal wave of Watergate reporting drowning the 'not guilty' pleas of all the president's men? | 14:00 |
| 19.05.1973 | lfa_19730519.mp3 | Sam Ervin and Watergate; Watergate - Nixon's admirers in the Kremlin, and how the tenacious lawyer Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina challenged Nixon. | 14:00 |
| 26.05.1973 | lfa_19730526.mp3 | Watergate: Nixon's changing stories, 1973; A question of clarity. A week of presidential explanation, in the guise of polysyllabic obfuscation, over the Watergate scandal. | 14:00 |
| 25.08.1973 | lfa_19730825.mp3 | Nixon's Watergate speech, 1973; The speech that President Nixon had hoped would sink the Watergate scandal once and for all fails to hit its target, according to polling. | 14:00 |
| 19.10.1973 | lfa_19731019.mp3 | The inauguration of Gerald Ford as Vice President, 1973; A lack of procedure for the events following the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew, and the promotion of Gerald Ford from House Minority Leader to Vice President. | 14:00 |
| 26.10.1973 | lfa_19731026.mp3 | Watergate investigators and Nixon; Speculation, suspicion and compromise. Demands, resignations and black clouds over President Nixon's refusal to assist the Watergate investigators. | 15:00 |
| 09.11.1973 | lfa_19731109.mp3 | Should Nixon resign?; Why the American policy in the state of Israel is failing to keep the home fires burning; and why an embattled President Nixon has more to fear from friends than foes. | 15:00 |
| 10.05.1974 | lfa_19740510.mp3 | Corruption; Avoiding corruption in politics, the temptations of advertising money, which can turn great actors into salesmen, and Earth Day's unexpected trash problems. | 14:00 |
| 31.05.1974 | lfa_19740531.mp3 | Duke Ellington; Duke Ellington - remembering not just a great jazz musician, but an elegant, articulate man of unassailable natural dignity. | 15:00 |
| 07.06.1974 | lfa_19740607.mp3 | San Francisco: Detroit of the Pacific?; The skyscrapers that shattered the myth of San Francisco as a special city; and why it's important to understand the Stockholm syndrome in the Patty Hearst kidnap case. | 14:00 |
| 09.08.1974 | lfa_19740809.mp3 | Nixon's resignation, 1974; Downfall of a president – how Nixon fatally underestimated the power of the people versus the presidential powers he has just been forced to give up. | 14:00 |
| 23.08.1974 | lfa_19740824.mp3 | Gerald Ford, the new man in the White House, 1974; Campaign biographies, and some new revelations about President Gerald Ford's past come to light, including the fact he was christened Leslie King Junior. | 14:00 |
| 18.10.1974 | lfa_19741018.mp3 | Boston busing crisis, 1974; How Judge W Arthur Garrity Jr's enforced busing policy, attempting to desegregate schooling, came up against its greatest challenge in South Boston. | 14:00 |
| 29.11.1974 | lfa_19741129.mp3 | TV news coverage, 1974; America's relentless TV news coverage and why we should learn from history that ignorant bliss does not pay off. | 14:00 |
| 27.12.1974 | lfa_19741227.mp3 | Changing United Nations; How the Third World has taken over the United Nations show – and how Alistair Cooke helped introduce the people's game of golf to Mother Russia. | 14:00 |
| 16.05.1975 | lfa_19750516.mp3 | Cambodia gunboat diplomacy; Why did President Ford launch an attack on Cambodia? Arriving late to a news story allows you to ask the simple question. | 14:00 |
| 18.07.1975 | lfa_19750718.mp3 | US/USSR handshakes, 1975; American and Soviet astronauts Thomas Stafford and Alexei Leonov's symbolic handshake, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's untimely intervention about the realities of the USSR. | 14:00 |
| 12.09.1975 | lfa_19750912.mp3 | Assassination attempt on Ford; President Ford is saved from assassination attempt in Sacramento, and the perils of taped broadcasting, when it comes to commenting on up-to-the-minute news. | 14:00 |
| 23.01.1976 | lfa_19760123.mp3 | American political parties; How the Democrats and the Republicans all came from a federalist starting point – and how they're both trying to hang on to the overcrowded middle ground. | 14:00 |
| 13.02.1976 | lfa_19760213.mp3 | Gossip; The history of the word 'gossip', and what's being said about the disgraced ex-President Nixon accepting an invitation to go to China. | 14:00 |
| 19.03.1976 | lfa_19760319.mp3 | The special relationship; Reassessing the 'special relationship' between the UK and US, in the light of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's sudden resignation. | 14:00 |
| 12.11.1976 | lfa_19761112.mp3 | Jimmy Carter elected president, 1976; How Americans feel about Jimmy Carter - the story revealed by the polling. | 14:00 |
| 23.12.1977 | lfa_19771223.mp3 | Groucho Marx and Bing Crosby; Two great talents who died in 1977 - remembering Groucho Marx and Bing Crosby. | 14:00 |
| 10.02.1978 | lfa_19780210.mp3 | Dr Strangelove and the Soviet spy satellite; As a Soviet spy satellite fuelled by nuclear power plunges to earth above Canada, has military technology acquiring a momentum independent of human control? | 14:00 |
| 10.03.1978 | lfa_19780310.mp3 | From Mexico; Why Letter from America can never be up to date anywhere in the world, and why US reports on Mexico are limited to jails and drugs. | 14:00 |
| 28.04.1978 | lfa_19780428.mp3 | Protest and historical change; Capitalism, communism and historical change, the slant that hindsight gives history - Eldridge Cleaver, and protest over the years by college students. | 14:00 |
| 06.04.1979 | lfa_19790406.mp3 | Three Mile Island Accident; Everyone has an opinion on nuclear energy now. The political fallout of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident on March 28, 1979, and how it might impact on future energy policy | 14:00 |
| 22.06.1979 | lfa_19790622.mp3 | The murder of Bill Stewart in Nicaragua, 1979; Seeing Bill Stewart, a news reporter, shot dead in Nicaragua in front of TV cameras, brings home the horror to Americans. | 09:00 |
| 21.09.1979 | lfa_19790921.mp3 | Jean Seberg and the FBI, 1979; The detestable confession that confirms that the actress Jean Seberg's life was destroyed by J Edgar Hoover's 'dirty tricks' branch of the FBI. | 15:00 |
| 05.10.1979 | lfa_19791005.mp3 | Pope John Paul II's visit; The national rejoicing during Pope John Paul II's visit to the US, the biography of the Pope, and Catholicism in America. | 14:00 |
| 19.10.1979 | lfa_19791019.mp3 | New York Times mistake; Mistaking a neutron for a neutrino, the New York Times has to apologise for its reporting of the Nobel Prize; and marking the death of Uncle Tom, actor Clarence Muse. | 15:00 |
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