Album liner notes of Sunday News Closeup script, including song lyrics, can be seen at:
Smithsonian Folkways Album
The album, “Radio Station WNEW’s Story of Selma” is available at
Smithsonian Folkways Records
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Retrospectives on the Selma to Montgomery March are available from many sources, including:
Selma – The History Channel
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Note to Bill Diehl — Here’s the William B./Lena Horne piece from the Nov. 1958 issue of Radio Mirror magazine you discovered during one of your flea market visits. I told you it would be posted, and true to my word, here it is, only three years and ten months after you sent in the piece at 4:00 p.m., May 11, 2010. ECB
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Lena Horne “Stormy Weather”
Stan Brooks, WINS, dies at 86. See “Other Signals” http://wnew1130com.ipower.com/other-signals/stan-brooks/
Somewhere inside San Francisco’s Cow Palace, between July 13 and July 16, 1964, during the Republican National Convention, WNEW’s Marlene Sander’s busy editing a reel of tape. The photo came via Bill Diehl from the files of Jerry Graham, WNEW News Director at the time, who died in April of this year.
Most memorable words spoken at that convention:
Barry Goldwater, as he was cheered.
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice — and let me remind you also, moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
Nelson Rockefeller, as he was booed.
“This is still a free country, ladies and gentlemen.”
To hear how it ended, click on link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQRSgFq-8pM&feature=em-share_video_user
WNEW’s 30th anniversary promotions in 1963, included a series of column-like newspapers ads placed in New York’s major dailies. The item below, which appeared in the Times, Journal, Tribune and News is the 5th “What’s NEW?” edition we’ve reconstructed from original clips collected by Bill Diehl.
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to hear Senator Claghorn in Allen’s Alley, click here: