|
|
|
|
BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1942: Walter Kessler of the Biology Department at City College discusses "Biology in the War: War diseases and their control," on this edition of The Role of Science in War.
1955: Health Commissioner Leona Baumgartner's addresses WNYC listeners on the eve of her visit to Ann Arbor to "listen first hand" to reports about the efficacy of the Salk vaccine against polio.
1960: Author Jessamyn West at The New York Herald Tribune Book and Authors Luncheon has praise for beatniks.
1993: Historian Raul Hilberg's 1988 Celeste Bartos Forum lecture commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Kristallnacht on the series Voices at the New York Public Library.
2003: Thoughts about war from afar from one thoughtful TV viewer and an expatriate Iraqi family who witnessed the first Gulf War on this edition of The Next Big Thing.
|
|
|
Pru Devon Collection
Thanks go out this week to Alister and Wendy Sanderson for their generous donation of Pru Devon's WQXR broadcast discs, tapes, photos and scripts. For more on Devon's work listen to the 8th in the series of Bob Sherman's 50th anniversary programs from 1986.
Also included in the donation were WNYC and WQXR program scripts by Evans Clark, along with one of his broadcasts of South American Way. And finally, thanks to Matthew Barton of the Library of Congress for his making this all possible.
|
|
|
LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS
WNYC & Palestine: 77 Years Ago
On June 5, 1937, WNYC broadcast an address by Lebanese-American writer and poet Ameen Rihani. Known as the ‘founding father of Arab-American literature,' Rihani spoke out against Zionism and said the only “possible and practical solution [in Palestine] would involve a decision that the Jewish National Home was now complete, and henceforth to be developed from within and not from without. Jewish immigration and land buying would be stopped at once and a national representative government would take the place of the [British] mandate.â€
The broadcast prompted a charge of anti-Semitism against WNYC from City Alderman Samson Inselbuch of Brooklyn. WNYC’s leadership defended the station’s broadcast, noting that plans for airing the Jewish side of the issue had been made before the Rihani broadcast. Leading rabbis and Jewish representatives backed the station, as they had indeed presented their views on Palestine during a broadcast round-table discussion. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise wrote that the charge against WNYC might be upheld only if the station had denied Jews the same right to speak.
------------------------------------------------------------------
Today is reportedly National 8-Track Day, a day to celebrate the obsolete but not forgotten audio format.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
