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Year by Year: 1929-1967Summary: James Meredith becomes the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi. This episode of Year by Year: 1962 also looks at John Glenn's orbiting of the earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Looks at 1945's atomic tests and development of the bomb. Also, Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies; VJ Day, Victory in Japan, follows VE, Victory in Europe, Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The Battle of Midway, considered the most important naval battle of the Pacific campaign in World War II, is discussed in this episode of Year by Year: 1942. Women at war and the Oscars are also discussed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Looks at the political landscape of 1936, including FDR's landslide re-election in the U.S., King Edward's abdication in the U.K., and the New Deal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: 1941 bought the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America's entrance into World War II. This episode of Year by Year also examines baseball during the war.
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Summary: Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey in the presidential race covered byYear by Year: 1947.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Covers events around the world including the formation of the Warsaw Pact by the Eastern Bloc nations and the death of American actor, James Dean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Looks at the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son. Bruno Hauptmann was subsequently arrested and his sensational trial in 1935 captivated the nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Orson Welles' radio broadcast of War of the Worlds panicked Americans across the country. In the U.K., Neville Chamberlain delivered his famous speech, Peace in Our Times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The marriage of John F. and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy is examined in this episode of Year by Year. Also featured is Queen Elizabeth's 1953 coronation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Explores the events and trends of 1930, including the Great Depression and Mt. Rushmore. Charles Lindbergh and wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh's record-setting, coast-to-coast flight is also covered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: A U.S. U-2 spy plane is shot down over Soviet Union airspace, increasing Cold War tensions. Year by Year: 1960 also marks John F. Kennedy's presidential election.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The Geneva Summit brings Dwight D. Eisenhower together with representatives of Britain, France, and the Soviet Union in an effort to reduce international tensions. Adlai Stevenson makes another presidential bid, covered in this episode of Year by Year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Year by Year looks back at 1963, John F. Kennedy's assassination, and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famed 'I Have a Dream' speech.
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Summary: 1939 brought momentous events that changed the course of history. Year by Year looks at the beginnings of World War II and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's pledge of neutrality.
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Summary: Observes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's reassuring fireside chats and the death of gangster John Dillinger.
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Summary: Travels to 1943 to explore Hollywood's influence on World War II and the movie stars who went to war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Lyndon Baines Johnson, LBJ, becomes the 36th President of the United States. Year by Year: 1964 also documents widespread Beatlemania as the Beatles tour the U.S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Looks at FDR's famed 'Nothing to Fear' speech and the 1933 repeal of Prohibition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Details the three historic Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama in support of civil rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Examines a major 1931 earthquake in Nicaragua.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Follows as Vice President Richard Nixon makes a 1958 goodwill trip through Latin America, but is met with anger over U.S. Cold War policy. Nixon is attacked in his car in Venezuela, but escapes unharmed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Examines World War II in Europe in 1940.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Mingus, Charles
Contents: Hog callin' blues -- Devil woman -- Wham bam thank you ma'am -- Ecclusiastics -- Oh Lord don't let them drop that Atomic Bomb on me -- Eat that chicken -- Passions of a man. Bonus tracks: "Old" blues for Walt's Torin -- Peggy's blue skylight -- Invisible lady.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Jazz Gallery 1999