1960 Democratic Convention

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Date
1960-07-12
Summary
(1) Reactions to comments by Eleanor Roosevelt (Mike Wallace). (2) Excerpt from Roosevelt interview. (3) Voice clip of Ohio Sen. Stephen M. Young. (4) Voice clip of Ohio Gov. Michael DiSalle (Sid Davis). (5) Voice cut of Charles E. Skillen, delegate from Indiana. (6) Voice clip of Kennedy, certain he’ll win the nomination. (7) Interview with Agnes Waters, 67, a Washington, DC real estate broker and lifelong Democrat. who has been running as a write-in presidential candidate since 1944 (Wanda Ramey). (8) Demonstrations for issues, no candidates (Ramey). (9) Nine Southern states protest the civil rights plank (Ann Corrick). (10) Lyndon Johnson not pulling out of the presidential race (Corrick). (11) Matthew E. Welsh, Democratic nominee for governor of Indiana, comments (Corrick). (12) The battle over the civil rights plank (Corrick). (13) Kennedy floor managers believe he’ll win the nomination (Jerry Landay). (14) Reactions to Eleanor Roosevelt’s comments (Landay). (15) Kennedy says he has the votes; vice-president conjecture (Landay) (16) Idaho Sen. Frank Church delivers the keynote speech (Snyder). (17) Pennsylvania delegation for KDKA, two stories (Snyder). (18) Ohio Gov. Michael DiSalle plants rumors at convention (Davis).
Publisher
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company. Group W
Genre
Special events radio coverage
Collection
Group W (Westinghouse Broadcasting Company) audio tapes
Unit
Special Collections and University Archives
Language
English
Rights Statement
In Copyright
Physical Description
sound tape reel
Notes
A guide to the full collection of Group W (Westinghouse Broadcasting Company) audio tapes is available in our archival collections: https://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/43884
Other Identifiers
Catalog Key: bcast-077236; Other: 0492-MMC

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