Walter Cronkite - I Can Hear It Now - The Sixties 2CD [320 mp3]

Walter Cronkite - I Can Hear It Now - The Sixties

Allmusic Review

A double CD of soundbites from speeches, press conferences, broadcasts and the like from the '60s, narrated by famed newscaster Walter Cronkite (who wrote and edited the album with Fred Friendly). Note that the history documented on I Can Hear It Now/The Sixties is very much that of the '60s in the United States. There's some coverage of world events such as the 1967 Israel-Egypt Six-Day War and the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, but the overwhelming bulk of it has excerpts from statements and speeches by U.S. politicians. Cronkite and Friendly also made a conscious decision to almost totally exclude coverage of the arts and some other forms of non-political culture, as they make clear in their liner notes. The model for I Can Hear It Now/The Sixties was actually a previous album by celebrated journalist Edward R. Murrow, who compiled an album called I Can Hear It Now devoted to events of 1933-1945; Cronkite and Friendly had the advantage of many more source tapes, in much better fidelity, from which to choose. It sounds a bit staid and staged decades later, but this does include plenty of famous soundbites of the '60s: the Kennedy assassination, the Bay of Pigs, Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, escalation of the war in Vietnam, the 1968 presidential election, the 1969 moon landing, Nixon's "you won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" speech, Woodstock, student demonstrations, and more. If you want this sort of thing, for the archives or actual listening, it's a good deal, containing about 75 minutes per disc. The fidelity is not always state-of-the-art, particularly in the early part of the '60s, but it's never difficult to comprehend.

CD 1


01 - Prologue (1963)
02 - Warnings For The Decade
03 - John F. Kennedy- 'Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You' (1961)
04 - Pablo Casals White House Concert (1961)
05 - John F. Kennedy- 'The Problems Are More Difficult Than I Imagined Them To Be' (1961)
06 - John F. Kennedy- 'Each Day The Crises Multiply' (1961)
07 - Kennedy,Nixon- Excerpts From 1960 Debate On Cuba (1960)
08 - United Nations Security Council Ambassador, Adlai Stevenson Denial Of Bay Of Pigs (1961)
09 - John F. Kennedy Takes Responsibility For Bay Of Pigs (1961)
10 - John F. Kennedy- Berlin Crisis,Need For Air Shelters (1961)
11 - John F. Kennedy- 'Inequity Of Life' (1962)
12 - John F. Kennedy- 'Ich Bin Ein Berliner' (1963)
13 - John F. Kennedy- N.A.M. Speech,Yale Honorary Degree (1961)
14 - Krushchev Pounds Shoe At U.N.,Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Jibe At Krushchev (1960)
15 - Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's Fight Against Soviet Attempts To Impose Troika On (1960)
16 - John F. Kennedy Delivers Hammarskjold's Eulogy (1961)
17 - Cuban Missile Crisis At U.N. (1962)
18 - John F. Kennedy Reports To Nation On Cuban Confrontation (1962)
19 - John F. Kennedy Describes Adnrei Gromyko At White House During Missile Crisis (1962)
20 - Radio Moscow- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
21 - John F.Kennedy Sums Up Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
22 - Nixon Concedes Defeat In CA Gubernatorial Election (1962)
23 - Progress In Space- Sputnik I,Mercury I,Friendship I (1962)
24 - John F. Kennedy- Need For A Test Ban Treaty (1963)
25 - John F. Kennedy- 'We All Breathe The Same Air...' (1963)
26 - John F.Kennedy - 'Important First Step...' (1963)
27 - Broadcasts To The Nation After Black Students Have Entered University Of Alabama (1963)
28 - Martin Luther King Jr- 'i Have A Dream' (1963)
29 - John F. Kennedy- Assassination,LBJ Oath Of Office (1963)
30 - Lee Harvey Oswald Interview,Jack Ruby Murders Oswald (1963)
31 - Funeral Of John F. Kennedy (1963)
32 - Lyndon B. Johnson Addresses Joint Session On Civil Rights Bill (1963)
33 - Everett Dirksen Explains How Civil Rights Bill Will Get Through Senate (1964)
34 - Barry Goldwater- 'Extremisim In The Defense Of Liberty Is No Vice' (1964)
35 - Ike At GOP Convention- Warns Against 'Sensation-Seeking Journalists' (1964)
36 - Democratic National Convention- LBJ Accepts Nomination (1964)
37 - Harlem Riots (1964)
38 - Tonkin Gulf, Vietnam Incident And Resolution (1964)
39 - Goldwater- Defoliate Vietnam Jungle,LBJ- Restraint In Vietnam Bombing (1964)
40 - Reprise On Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1970)
41 - Malcolm X Defines Black Power, Mrs. Malcolm X Describes His Assassination (1965)
42 - Santo Domingo Intervention (1965)

CD 2


01 - Senate Hearings On Vietnam And Dominican Republic (1966)
02 - Government Offices Voice Optimism About Vietnam (1964-68)
03 - Burning Of Village Of Cam Ne (1965)
04 - Great Power Blackout (1965)
05 - Contrasts In Music Of The Decade (1960-69)
06 - Pope Paul VI At United Nations (1965)
07 - Riots And Civil Disorder (1965-67)
08 - Report Of President's Commission On Violence (1968)
09 - Bob Dylan- 'The Times They Are A-Changin' (1968)
10 - Six-Day War (1967)
11 - Nasser Calls For Holy War Against Israel (1967)
12 - War Comes To Cairo (1967)
13 - Reports Of Israel's 'Instant Victory' (1967)
14 - Israeli Troops At Wailing Wall (1967)
15 - President Nasser Resigns (1967)
16 - New Hampshire Primary- Senator Eugene McCarthy Challenges President Johnson (1968)
17 - Robert Kennedy Decides To Run (1968)
18 - Lydon B. Johnson Announces He Will Not Seek Another Term (1968)
19 - Assassination Of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968)
20 - We Shall Overcome',King's Last Speech,Atlanta Funeral (1968)
21 - Robert F. Kennedy Interrupts Campaigning To Speak Of Dr. King And Violence (1968)
22 - Assassination Of Robert F. Kennedy (1968)
23 - Senator Edward M. Kennedy Delivers Robert F. Kennedy Eulogy. (1968)
24 - Republican National Convention, Miami- Ricard M. Nixon Accepts Nomination (1968)
25 - Democratic National Convention (1968)
26 - Invasion Of Czechoslovakia (1968)
27 - Demonstations At Columbia University (1968)
28 - President Charles De Gaulle Of France Resigns (1969)
29 - George Wallace Campaigns For President (1968)
30 - Hubert H. Humphrey (1968)
31 - Richard M. Nixon's Victory Statement (1968)
32 - Apollo Eight Orbits Moon (1968)
33 - Apollo Eleven- First Moon Landing (1969)
34 - President Richard M. Nixon Greets Astronauts Aboard Aircraft Carrier 'Wasp' (1969)
35 - Woodstock - Sly & The Family Stone 'i Want To Take You Higher',Santana 'Soul Sacrifice' (1969)
36 - Incident At Chappaquiddick- Edward M. Kennedy (1969)
37 - Richard M. Nixon Presidential Inaugural Speech - 'We Are Caught In War, Wanting (1969)
38 - Richard M. Nixon Vietnam Policy Speech (1969)
39 - Peace Demonstration And Moratorium (1969)
40 - VP Agnew Castigates News Media (1969)
41 - Eric Sevareid Answers Vice President- Elmer Davis Memorial Lecture (1970)
42 - Chief Justice Earl Warren In One Of Has Rare Replies To Congressional Critics (1970)
43 - Richard M. Nixon- 'We Find Ourselves...Reaching For The Moon, Discord On Earth' (1969)
44 - Epilogue (1965)
45 - 'To See The Earth As It Truly Is...' (1968)