Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Inventor Marconi Talks About Sending the First Transatlantic Radio ...
2. Double-Sided Record, New from the Columbia Graphophone Company, Off
3. Inventor Thomas Edision Announces the Age of Electricity
4. Commander Robert E. Peary Expounds on the Allure of Arctic Exploration
5. Survivor Gives Harrowing Account of the R.M.S. Titanic Disaster
6. Presidential Candidate Woodrow Wilson Makes the Case for a Living
7. British Member of Parliment Horatio Bottomley Asserts That We Are ...
8. American Federation of Labor President Samuel Gompers Explains ...
9. Commander of American Expeditionary Forces in France, General J.J. ...
10. Former Ambassador to Germany James Gerard Challenges ...
11. Explanation of Inventor Lee DeForest's Principles of Talking Film
12. Attorney Clarence Darrow Proclaims the Real Cause of Crime Is Poverty,
13. Humorist Will Rogers Muses on His Entry in the Congressional Record
14. Aviator Charles Lindbergh Reflects on the First-Ever Transatlantic ...
15. As the Threat of War Once Again Looms over Europe, Winston ...
16. Expartiate Author Henry Miller Reads from His Controversial Book, ...
17. Lousiana Senator Huey Long Criticizes the Current Rossevelt ...
18. Indian Leader Mohandas Gandhi Shares His Beliefs
19. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Visits Dust Bowl States and Vows ...
20. Physicist Albert Einstein Asserts That Modern Man Is Detached from The
21. King Edward VIII Announces His Abdication of the Throne and ...
22. News Coverage of the Hindenburg Airship Disaster
23. Man and the Mouse: Mickey Mouse Turns 10 Years Old
24. Civil Rights Activist Asa Philip Randolph Pleas for Social and ...
25. Aviator Howard Hughes and Crew Successfully Complete World's First ...
26. Sigmund Freud Discusses Psychoanalysis
27. Dramatist and Critic George Bernard Shaw Defines the Pacifist Movement
28. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Commemorates the Nations of the ...
29. Author Margaret Mitchell Expresses Gratitude over Winning Pulitzer ...
30. Broadcaster Edward R. Murrow Reports Plans for the Evacuation of ...
31. Nazi Germany Mounts Blitzkrieg Invasion of Poland
32. Nazi Germany Denies Aggression Toward Poland, Claiming Self-Defense
33. British Prime Minister Neville Chamerlain Declares a State of War
34. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler Condemns Polish Aggression Toward Germa
35. Italian Fascist Leader Benito Mussolini Declares War on the Allied ...
36. American Jounalist William L. Shirer Reports on French Armistice Signi
37. Labor Leader John L. Lewis Supports Wendell Willkie for President
38. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Annouces the First Peacetime Draft ...
39. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Declares War on Japan
40. Mayor Fiorello Laguardia Publicizes the New Convenient New York
41. Announcement of Allied Invasion of North Africa
42. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Reports the Allied Armies' ...
43. First Allied Phanes Leave England, Leading D-Day Invasion
44. Report of U.S. Flag Raised over Island of Iwo Jima
45. Annoucement of Allied Forces Crossing the Rhine River
46. Report of German Army's Unconditional Surrender in Italy
47. Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide
48. V-E Day Report of German Surrender Ending the War in Europe
49. V-E Day Celebration in Times Square New York City
50. President Harry Truman Signs the United Nations Charter
51. Report of the U.S. Having Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
52. V-J Day Report of Japanese Surrender Ending the War in the Pacific
53. British Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill Declares Eastern ...
54. U.S. Census Reveals Postwar Infant Population Boom
55. Secretary of State George C. Marshall Announces Plan to Revitalize ...
56. Soviet Blockade of Berlin Thwarted by U.S. Air Force Efforts
57. United Nations Representative ABBA Eban Comments on Israel's ...
58. President Harry Truman Mocks Naysayer Journalists in Election ...
59. White House Issues Statement That Soviet Union Has Atomic Bomb
60. Bobby Thompson Secures New York Giants' National League Pennant ...
61. Baseball Great Joe Dimaggio Announces His Retirement
62. Vice-President Candidate Richard M. Nixon Defends Himself Against ...
63. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin Dies at Age 73

Disc 2:

1. Atomic Bomb Testing Continues
2. Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain
3. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Are Denied Clemancy
4. President Dwight D. Eisenhower Officially Annouces End to Korean ...
5. Author Ray Bradbury Provides More Positive Outlook on Future Than ...
6. President Dwight Eisenhower Assures There Will Be Further ...
7. Congressmen Provide Conflicting Viewpoints on School Desegregation
8. Senator Joseph McCarthy Presides at House un-American Activities ...
9. New York Giants Manager Leo Durocher States Strong Leadership Is a ...
10. Author Ernest Hemingway Delivers Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
11. Cleveland Disc Jockey Alan Freed at the Top of His Form Hosting ...
12. Ensure Your Safety With the Purchase of This Nuclear Survival ...
13. James Dean Discusses His Craft on the Set of Rebel Without a Cause
14. Music Experts Squabble over Meaning of Rock & Roll
15. Yankees Pitcher Don Larsen Delivers First Perfect Game in World Series
16. Hungarian Revolt Crushed by Soviets
17. What Do We Know About Cuban Revolutionary Fidel Castro?
18. Althea Gibson Becomes First Black Athlete to Win Wimbledon Tennis ...
19. President Dwight D. Eisenhower Denouces Arkansas Efforts to ...
20. Black Politician Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Speaks Out on Notion of ...
21. United States Successfully Launches First Orbiting Satellite, Explorer
22. Author Lorraine Hansberry Discusses Her Play a Raison in the Sun
23. NASA Introduces First Seven Astronauts for Project Mercury
24. Cuban Premier Fidel Castro Vistis U.S. For First Time
25. Author Allen Ginsberg and Anthropologist Margaret Mead Discuss Origins
26. Presidential Candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon ...
27. President-Elect John F. Kennedy Wins Narrow-Margin Victory
28. President Dwight D. Eisenhower Delivers Military Industrial ...
29. President John F. Kennedy Addresses Nation With Inaugural Speech
30. Bay of Pigs Invasion Denounced at United Nations Address
31. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow Decries ...
32. Birth of the Berlin Wall
33. Launch of Telstar Satellite Ushers in Age of High-Speed ...
34. Author John Steinbeck Discusses Winning Nobel Prize for Literature
35. Debut of World's First Talking/Singing Computer
36. President John F. Kennedy Visits the Berlin Wall and Rallies ...
37. President John F. Kennedy Is Assassinated
38. JFK Assassination Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald Is Shot
39. North Vietnamese Vessels Attack U.S. Navy in Gulf of Tonkin
40. Activist Mario Savio Speaks Out on Uc Berkeley Education Tyranny
41. Reports Confirm Societ Communist Party Personnel Shake-Up
42. Activist Whitney Young Talks in Selma, Alabama, on the Importance ...
43. Racial Violence Breaks Out in Watts District of Los Angeles
44. Vietnamese Radio Propaganda Queen Hanoi Hannah Broadcasts to U.S. ...
45. Dr. Christiaan Barnard Performs First Human Heart Transplant
46. Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir Articulates Israel's Need for ...
47. Senator Robert Kennedy Announces Presidential Candidacy
48. President Lyndon B. Johnson Declines Nomination for Reelection
49. Martin Luther King, Jr. Stirs Memphis Audience With Mountain Top ...
50. Senator Robert Kennedy Is Assassinated
51. Soviets Invade Czechoslovakia
52. Riots Break Out at 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention
53. Apollo 8 Astronauts Conduct Christmas Eve Broadcast
54. Mickey Mantle Gives Farewell Speech to Yankees Fans
55. Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong Broadcasts Man's First Steps on ...
56. Beatle Paul McCartney Refutes Rumors of His Death
57. Thousands of Protesters Show Support on Vietnam Moratorium Day
58. Vice President Spiro Agnew Lashes Out Against the Media Elite

Disc 3:

1. Commander James A. Lovell, Jr., Reports from Apollo 13 Houston ...
2. National Voting Age Is Lowered to 18
3. New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug Testimonial on the Equal Rights ...
4. National Organization of Women Founder Betty Friedan Speaks Out During
5. President Richard Nixon Announces Plans to Visit Communist China
6. Future of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Cites the ...
7. United Nations Officially Recognizes People's Republic of China
8. Governor Ronald Reagan Views George Wallace Assassination Attempt ...
9. Olympic Athletes Are Taken Hostage in Munich
10. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Announces Peace Is at Hand in ...
11. Supreme Court Decision Legalizes Abortion in Roe V. Wade
12. Members of American Indian Movement Take over Wounded Knee, South ...
13. Dispute at White House over Release of Watergate Tapes
14. President Richard Nixon Concedes One Can Only Be Angry With Those ...
15. President Richard Nixon's Resignation: I Have Never Been a Quitter
16. President Richard Nixon Bids Farewell to His White House Staff
17. President Gerald Ford Gives Inaugural Speech
18. South Vietnam Surrenders to Vietcong
19. Exiled Russian Novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Addresses Harvard ...
20. Astronaut Thomas Stafford and Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov Seal Joint ...
21. Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat Gives Goodwill Address to Congress
22. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan Becomes First Black Woman to Deliver ...
23. Viking I Travels 500 Million Miles to Land on Mars
24. Former Beatle John Lennon Finally Wins Residency Status in U.S.
25. Outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease
26. Space Shuttle Enterprise Passes First Flight Test
27. Elvis Presley Dies at 42
28. Observations of San Francisco Politician Harvey Milk
29. Pope John Paul I Dies Suddenly
30. San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Dianne Feinstein ...
31. President Jimmy Carter Discusses Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty
32. Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh Advises Citizens of Possible ...
33. Entrepreneur Ted Turner Officially Inaugurates the Cable News Network
34. Labor Unrest in Poland
35. President Jimmy Carter Annouces Release of 52 American Hostages ...
36. Conflicting Announcement of the Assassination Attempt on President ...
37. Assassin Wounds Pope John Paul II
38. President Ronald Reagan Lays Down the Law to Striking Air-Traffic ...
39. Brittain and Argentina at War over Falkland Islands
40. Soviets Down Korean Airlines Flight 007
41. Report of U.S. Invasion from Grenada
42. Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
43. President Ronald Reagan Denies Allegations of Secret Deals With Iran
44. 1988 Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Llyod Bentsen to ...
45. President Ronald Reagan Envisions the Shining City
46. Report of Chinese Government Response to Student Revolt from Tiananmen
47. Operation Dester Storm Begins
48. Law Professor Anita Hill Testifies Against Judge Clarence Thomas ...
49. Supreme Court Nominee Judge Clarence Thomas Gives His Testimony
50. Observations About the Rodney King Verdict and Ensuing Street Riots In
51. California State Senator Diane Watson Seeks Culpability for the ...
52. Motorist Rodney King Implores: Can We All Get Along?
53. FBI Tactical Briefing Concerning the Branch Davidians' Compound in ...
54. Nelson Mandela Speaks on Eve of South Africa's Presidential Election
55. President Bill Clinton Condemns Boming in Oklahoma City
56. Reading of O.J. Simpson's Trial Verdict
57. Noa Ben-Artzi Philosof Gives Eulogy for Grandfather Israeli Prime ...
58. General Colin Powell Declines Bid for Presidency
59. Unabomber Suspect Theodore Kaczynski Is Apprehended
60. Richard Jewell Denies Being Responsible for the Bomb Explosion at ...
61. British Scientist Ian Wilmut Discusses Human Cloning
62. Britain Returns Conservatorship of Hong Kong to China
63. Diana, Princess of Whales, Dies in Car Crash
64. Linda Tripp Records Monica Lewinsky
65. President Bill Clinton Avows I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That
66. President Bill Clinton Testifies His Explanation Was Legally Accurate
67. Mark McGwire Breaks Roger Maris' Single-Season Home Run Record
68. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Appeals for Peace over War in Kosovo
69. U.S. Returns Conservatorship of the Panama Canal Back to Panama
70. Record-Breaking Stock Exchange Frenzy Continues
71. President Bill Clinton Observes the Dawning of the New Millennium
72. Celebration of New Year's Eve in Times Square

Product Details

• Released on: 2000-08-18
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, Compilation, Import
• Dimensions: 1.92 pounds

From Amazon.com
Rhino Records has again put together a beautiful and comprehensive history book cleverly disguised as a CD package. As with the superb Voices of the Shoah and Great Speeches of the 20th Century, the Rhino producers have used the spoken word as the central means of conveying historical moments and, in the process, have made history come alive. Tastefully packaged in a 100-page, spiral-bound book, the audio moments are numerically documented with concise, track-by-track blurbs. Reading and listening to these snapshots in time provide a perfect way to memorialize this remarkable century.

The three CDs move chronologically. The first volume, "The New Century, the World Wars and Fragile Peace," covers the first half of the century. The second volume, "The Atomic Era, the Cold War, and the '60s," spans 1953 to 1969, and the last volume, "Equal Rights, Watergate, and Glasnost," covers the '70s, '80s, and '90s. Most of the sound bites, which are about a minute long each, concern national and global politics from a strictly American point of view, but there are a number of cultural artifacts as well. Ernest Hemingway's acceptance of the Nobel Prize and Henry Miller's recitation from Tropic of Cancer are as compelling as speeches from Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan. News accounts of the Hindenburg disaster and the Lee Harvey Oswald shooting are riveting as well.

The producers refer to the package in music terminology, calling it a sort of greatest hits collection, but this excellent compilation, which functions primarily as an ideal reference book, deserves a place in libraries and classrooms as well as in private collections. --Wally Shoup

Customer Reviews

Fascinating, even if you don't think it will be
I was first introduced to this collection in excerpts heard on NPR. They were so intriguing that I had to hear the whole thing. Even if you are not a history buff, the moments captured here will make you pause. From well known speechs and world events to odd and unusual history moments that you never learned in school, I found each one interesting and even(dare I say it!)educational. Also great conversaton starters, especially if you have older friends and relatives . You may be suprised and touched by the memories that this collection can bring up. I'm getting it for my dad, and can seriously say that I'm really looking forward to the family listening to it and discussing it together. A great gift for the holidays.