I Can Hear It Now / The Sixties

Album by Walter Cronkite & Fred W. Friendly

Released 1999

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Prologue
    2:12
  • 2
    Warnings for the Decade
    4:13
  • 3
    January 20, 1961: John (F. Kennedy: 'Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You')
    1:32
  • 4
    November 14, 1961: Pablo Casals White House Concert
    0:27
  • 5
    John (F. Kennedy: 'The Problems Are More Difficult Than I Imagined Them to Be')
    0:20
  • 6
    John (F. Kennedy: 'Each Day the Crises Multiply' - January 30, 1961 State of the Union)
    0:42
  • 7
    John (F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon: Excerpts From 1960 Debate on Cuba)
  • 8
    April 17, 1961: United Nations Security Council, Ambassador Adlai Stevenson Denies Bay of Pigs Invasion
    1:41
  • 9
    April 21, 1961: News Conference: John (F. Kennedy takes Responsibility for Bay of Pigs)
    1:07
  • 10
    July 25, 1961: John (F. Kennedy: Berlin Crisis / Need for Air Shelters)
    1:33
  • 11
    March 21, 1962:John (F. Kennedy: 'Inequity of Life')
    0:27
  • 12
    June 26, 1963: John (F. Kennedy: 'Ich Bin Ein Berliner')
    1:09
  • 13
    John (F. Kennedy Humor: December 6, 1961: N.A.M. Speech; June 11, 1962: Yale Honorary Degree)
    2:23
  • 14
    September 29, 1960: Krushchev Pounds Shoe at U.N., Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Jibe at Krushchev
    0:40
  • 15
    October 3, 1960: Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld's Fight Against Soviet Attempts to Impose Troika on United Nations
    0:51
  • 16
    September 25, 1961: John (F. Kennedy Delivers Hammarskjöld's Eulogy)
    0:53
  • 17
    October 25, 1962: Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin: Cuban Missile Crisis at U.N.
    1:25
  • 18
    October 22, 1962: John (F. Kennedy Reports to Nation on Cuban Confrontation)
    2:25
  • 19
    December 17, 1962: John (F. Kennedy Describes Andrei Gromyko at White House During Missile Crisis)
    1:15
  • 20
    October 28, 1962: Radio Moscow: Cuban Missile Crisis
    1:05
  • 21
    John (F. Kennedy Sums Up Cuban Missile Crisis and American Position by Christmas 1962)
    0:56
  • 22
    November 7, 1962: Nixon Concedes Defeat in California Gubernatorial Election
    2:41
  • 23
    February 20, 1962: Progress in Space, Early '60s: Sputnik I, Wehner Von Braun, Yuri Gagarin, Mercury I, John Glenn and Flight of Friendship One
    3:52
  • 24
    May 8, 1963: John (F. Kennedy: Need for a Test Ban Treaty)
    0:33
  • 25
    June 10, 1963: John (F. Kennedy American University Speech: 'We All Breathe the Same Air...')
    0:47
  • 26
    July 26, 1963: John (F. Kennedy Announces 'Important First Step' Treaty Between United States, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom)
    1:02
  • 27
    June 11, 1963: Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and Governor George Wallace at the University of Alabama; John (F. Kennedy Broadcasts to the Nation After Black Students Have Entered University of Alabama)
    2:36
  • 28
    August 28, 1963: Civil Rights March on Washington: Mahalia Jackson; A. Philip Randolph; Martin Luther King Jr: 'i Have a Dream'
    5:00
  • 29
    November 22, 1963: John (F. Kennedy Assassination / Lyndon B. Johnson Oath of Office)
    4:41
  • 30
    November 24, 1963: Lee Harvey Oswald Interview / Jack Ruby Murders Oswald
    3:05
  • 31
    November 25, 1963: Funeral of John (F. Kennedy)
    3:58
  • 32
    November 27, 1963: Lyndon B. Johnson Addresses Joint Session of Congress on Civil Rights Bill
    0:47
  • 33
    May, 1964: Senator Everett Dirksen Explains How Civil Rights Bill Will Get Through Senate
    0:58
  • 34
    July 16, 1964: Republican National Convention in San Francisco: Barry Goldwater: 'Extremisim in the Defense of Liberty Is No Vice'
    1:15
  • 35
    July 14, 1964: Republican National Convention in San Francisco: Dwight D. Eisenhower Warns Against 'Sensation-Seeking Journalists'
    1:02
  • 36
    August 27, 1964: Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City: Lyndon B. Johnson Accepts Nomination
    1:00
  • 37
    August 1964: Harlem Riots
    1:31
  • 38
    August 4, 1964: Tonkin Gulf, Vietnam Incident and Resolution
    2:47
  • 39
    May 24, 1964: Barry Goldwater Suggests Defoliation of Vietnam Jungle; Lyndon B. Johnson: Restraint in Vietnam Bombing
    0:58
  • 40
    1970: Reprise on Tonkin Gulf Resolution
    2:36
  • 41
    February 1965: Malcolm X Defines Black Power, Mrs. Malcolm X Describes His Assassination
    2:00
  • 42
    May 2, 1965: Santo Domingo Intervention
    2:24
  • CD 2
  • 1
    January 28, 1966: Senate Hearings on Vietnam and Dominican Republic
    4:09
  • 2
    Government Officials Voice Optimism About Vietnam
    1:29
  • 3
    August 5. 1965: Burning of Village of Cam Ne
    2:21
  • 4
    November 1965: Great Power Blackout
    1:20
  • 5
    Contrasts in Music of the Decade
    2:38
  • 6
    October 4, 1965: Pope Paul VI at United Nations
    0:51
  • 7
    Riots and Civil Disorder
    2:24
  • 8
    February 29, 1968: Report of President's Commission on Violence
    0:30
  • 9
    Bob Dylan: 'The Times They Are A-Changin'
    0:35
  • 10
    Six-Day War
    0:25
  • 11
    June 5, 1967: Gamal Abdel Nasser Calls for Holy War of Vengeance Against Israel
    0:59
  • 12
    June 5, 1967: War Comes to Cairo
    0:54
  • 13
    June 5, 1967: First Reports of Israel's 'Instant Victory'
    0:27
  • 14
    June 7, 1967: Israeli Troops at Wailing Wall of Ancient Temple
    0:43
  • 15
    June 9, 1967: President Nasser Resigns
    0:51
  • 16
    January 1968: New Hampshire Primary: Senator Eugene McCarthy Challenges President Johnson
    2:20
  • 17
    March 16, 1968: Senator Robert Kennedy Decides to Run
    0:41
  • 18
    March 31, 1968: Lydon B. Johnson Announces He Will Not Seek Another Term
    0:52
  • 19
    April 4, 1968:Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
    0:48
  • 20
    We Shall Overcome', King's Last Speech, Atlanta Funeral
    1:46
  • 21
    April 5, 1968: Robert (F. Kennedy Interrupts Campaigning to Speak of Dr. King and Violence)
    1:52
  • 22
    June 4, 1968: California Primary and Robert (F. Kennedy Victory Announcement, Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy)
    2:48
  • 23
    June 8, 1968: Senator Edward M. Kennedy Delivers Robert (F. Kennedy Eulogy)
    1:25
  • 24
    August 8, 1968: Republican National Convention, Miami: Richard M. Nixon Accepts Nomination
    2:24
  • 25
    August 28-29, 1968: Democratic National Convention, Chicago
    5:38
  • 26
    August 20, 1968: Invasion of Czechoslovakia
    2:56
  • 27
    May 1968: Demonstations at Columbia University
    1:10
  • 28
    April 28, 1969: President Charles de Gaulle of France Resigns
    0:46
  • 29
    September 11, 1968: George Wallace Campaigns for President
    1:50
  • 30
    September 30, 1968: Hubert H. Humphrey, Salt Lake City
    0:30
  • 31
    November 6, 1968: Richard M. Nixon's Victory Statement
    1:07
  • 32
    December 24, 1968: Apollo Eight Orbits Moon
    2:53
  • 33
    Apollo Eleven: First Moon Landing
    3:44
  • 34
    July 24, 1969: President Richard M. Nixon Greets Astronauts Aboard Aircraft Carrier 'Wasp'
    0:24
  • 35
    August 1969: Woodstock Festival
    3:15
  • 36
    July 25, 1969: Incident at Chappaquiddick: Edward M. Kennedy
    2:00
  • 37
    January 20, 1969: Richard M. Nixon Presidential Inaugural Speech: 'We Are Caught in War, Wanting Peace'
    1:21
  • 38
    November 3, 1969: Richard M. Nixon Vietnam Policy Speech
    1:30
  • 39
    October 15-November 15, 1969: Peace Demonstration and Moratorium
    0:54
  • 40
    November 13, 1969: VP Agnew Castigates News Media
    2:03
  • 41
    April 29, 1970: Eric Sevareid Answers Vice President: Elmer Davis Memorial Lecture
    1:58
  • 42
    Chief Justice Earl Warren in One of Has Rare Replies to Congressional Critics
    1:35
  • 43
    January 20, 1969: Richard M. Nixon: 'We Find Ourselves... Reaching for the Moon, Discord on Earth'
    0:32
  • 44
    Epilogue
    0:55
  • 45
    December 25, 1968: 'To See the Earth as It Truly Is...'
    3:39

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