

Bobby Kennedy's assassination, 1968
1968-6-09 | 13 min.
An eyewitness account of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles, and the collective-guilt aftermath for America.

1000th letter - American reactions to Vietnam, 1968
1968-3-24 | 14 min.
The national mood begins to change over the Vietnam war - how America began to move from early indifference to the recognition of a nightmare.

Christmas 1967
1967-12-24 | 13 min.
Senator Jacob Javits' parking fine, Mayor Lindsay and the water commissioner, and a President Truman Christmas story.

Honeymoon with President Johnson, 1966
1966-8-21 | 14 min.
Democracy demonstrated - how the President of the United States had to make way for Mr Meyer Sugarman's wedding night.

The LA Watts riots, 1965
1965-8-22 | 14 min.
The Watts riots in Los Angeles - were they an uprising by black Americans angry at their treatment or simply criminally motivated looting and violence?



Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)