Favorites 
                                                                  A selection of original sources
                                                                                   1950-

Favorites
* 1492-1850
* 1850-1900
* 1900-1950
*  1950-

*  General Douglas MacArthur's "Old Soldiers Never Die" address to Congress, April 19, 1951 (Library of Congress)

*  "I Like Ike" animated 1952 Dwight Eisenhower campaign commercial produced by Roy Disney (video) (Museum of the Moving Image)

*  President Eisenhower "beware the military-industrial complex" farewell address to the nation, January 17, 1961 (video)

*  Eleanor Roosevelt interviews President John F. Kennedy on status of women after he appoints her as chair of new President's Commission on the Status of Women, June 4, 1962 (video) (WGBH Educational Foundation)

* President Kennedy's phone conversations with Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett over integration of the University of Mississippi, September 1962  (audio and transcripts) (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library) 

*  President Kennedy confers by phone with former President Eisenhower during height of Cuban Missile Crisis, October 22, 1962 (audio) (David Von Pein's JFK Channel)  

*  Alabama Governor George Wallace standing in front of door at University of Alabama while being confronted by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach in unsuccessful attempt to block integration of the University, June 11, 1963 (Library of Congress)

*  President Kennedy dictates recording that he was "shocked" by the death during a military coup of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, only to be interrupted by his son, John F. Kennedy, Jr., November 4, 1963 (audio) (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library)

*  Walter Cronkite reports death of President Kennedy on CBS November 22, 1963 (video) (John F. Kennedy Channel)

*  Radio broadcast of Boston Symphony Conductor Erich Leinsdorf informing concert audience of assassination of President Kennedy, November 22, 1963 (audio) (WGBH Educational Foundation)

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*  Montage of still and film footage highlighting ceremonial events leading up to funeral of President Kennedy on November 25, 1963 (video) (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library)

*  Report of President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (Warren Commission Report), September 24, 1964 (U.S. Government Publishing Office)

*  "Daisy Girl" nuclear bomb commercial for 1964 President Johnson campaign (video) (Mike Billy)


*  President Johnson expresses pessimism over prospects for victory in Vietnam in telephone conversation with Senator Richard Russell, May 27, 1964 (audio) (Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library) 

*  "Summer of 67" (Aftermath of Detroit Race Riots of 1967), NBC- News Special Report (video) (Hezakaya Starr) 

*  President Johnson address to nation announcing he will not seek re-election. March 31, 1968 (video) (Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library)

*  Robert F. Kennedy speech to audience informing them of assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1968 (video)

*  President Nixon announces resignation August 8, 1974 (video) (Richard Nixon Foundation)

*  President Nixon letter of resignation sent to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, August 9, 1974 (National Archives)  

*  President Ford remarks on decision to issue pardon for former President Nixon September 8, 1974 (video) (Miller Center, University of Virginia)

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*  Presidential Proclamation 4311 of September 8, 1974, by President Ford granting a pardon to Richard M. Nixon (National Archives)

 *  Fall of Saigon to Viet Cong and North Vietnamese April 30, 1975 (video) (ITN Source) 

*  Excerpt from President Reagan "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech in Berlin, June 12, 1987 (video) (NRCC Communications)  

*  President Clinton remarks "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" (video) (Miller Center, University of Virginia), January 26, 1998

*  U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), ending recount of Florida ballots which resulted in election of George W. Bush, December 12, 2000 (Justia.com) 

*  NBC "Today" show broadcast September 11, 2001 as attack happened (video) (mckinnism1)

*  President Bush being advised of attacks while visiting Florida classroom September 11, 2001 (video) (rocketboom) 

*  NBC broadcast reporting on initial U.S. strikes on Al Qaeda and Taliban targets in Afghanistan in retaliation for the September 11th attacks October 7, 2001 (video) (abap2005) 

*  CNN coverage of commencement of Iraq War, March 30, 2003  (video) (ytykg)

*  President-elect Obama 2008 election night victory speech November 5, 2008 (video) (C-SPAN)

*   President Obama announces killing of Osama bin Laden, May 2, 2011 (video) (White House)