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[CHUM Radio Flashbacks to 1962]

Item number (ISN):

468056

Series title:

[CHUM Radio Flashbacks to 1962]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1963 ?

Item number (ISN):

468056

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Type of material:

Sound recordings

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CHUM

Accession:

1977-0035

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1963 ?

Production company:

CHUM

Description:

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Compilation made by radio station CHUM of voices and events that made news in 1962: John F. Kennedy announcing the naval blockade of Cuba at the time of the Cuban missile crisis; CHUM reporter Al Gregory reporting from the scene of Marilyn Monroe's funeral in Hollywood; Adlai Stevenson's speech at the United Nations during the Cuban missile crisis, a speech known as his challenge speech <1mn 2s>; a report by Bill Drylie of CHUM on the riot at the University of Mississippi when African American James Meredith tried to enrol at the university <30s]; British racing driver Stirling Moss interviewed by CHUM reporter Grant Forsyth <17s>; a speech by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in Vancouver during the federal election campaign, when he was heckled and booed and the meeting almost turned into a riot <45s>; astronaut John Glenn speaking from his space capsule during his space flight in Friendship Seven <35s>; Prime Minister John Diefenbaker giving his "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" speech in Vancouver <39s>; a joke made by Social Credit Party leader Réal Caouette in Toronto <35s>; report by J.J. Richards of CHUM radio at the scene of the crash of a Boeing 707 airliner in New York City, a crash that claimed 95 lives and occurred on the same day that John Glenn was in Manhattan <1mn 15s>; Dr. H.D. Dalgleish speaking on behalf of the doctors during the Medicare strike in Saskatchewan <35s>; Saskatchewan Premier Woodrow Lloyd stating the government's position on the doctors' strike <22s>; a marching song for the New Democratic Party during the 1962 federal election <17s>; former attorney general Kelso Roberts, reacting to the appointment of a Royal Commission on crime <20s>; singer Eddie Fisher claiming that there was nothing to the big romance between his wife, Elizabeth Taylor, and Richard Burton <24s>; Harry Bradley, perennial campaigner running for mayor in the Toronto civic election <1nm>; Dorothy Cureatz, candidate for board of control in the Toronto civic election; CHUM's Lloyd Lockhart trying to telephone Lord Snowdon, Anthony Armstrong Jones, husband of Princess Margaret, when he was hired as a colour editor on a London newspaper <1mn>; Lester B. Pearson speaking French; an interview by Lloyd Lockhart of CHUM of broadcaster Joyce Davidson who said that she was sick of being a Canadian <1mn 20s>; Lou Agase, who was fired as coach of the Toronto Argonauts football team, speaking at a sportsmen's dinner; a joke made by Father Dismas Clarke, the so-called hoodlum priest, on a visit to Toronto to raise money for the King farm <30s>; a report by J.J. Richards about the disrobing of five Doukhobour women at a political meeting featuring Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in Trail, British Columbia <28s>; and Toronto Mayor Nathan Phillips welcoming the Toronto Maple Leafs after they won the Stanley Cup by defeating Chicago in six games <40s>.

Language:

English / Français

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1. CHUM is a radio station in Toronto, Ontario.~2. Durations shown are the length of the clips.~3. Only one item is in French.
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Open

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~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

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With written permission of Donor / Avec la permission écrite du donateur

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