John McCormack says GOP convention was cut and dried; confusion at the conventions
- Date
1960-07-20
- Summary
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(1) UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld on UN forces sent to Congo; Thomas Kanza, the Congo's delegate-designate to the United Nations, on Belgian intervention; Belgian Foreign Minister Pierre Wigny responding to Kanza; Herter (7/20). (2) Secretary of State Christian Herter on Congo and the UN, on military intervention in Cuba, in response to Soviet charge that the US has troops in Congo (7/20). (3) American refugee from the Congo Rev. Charles Stuart describes his experience (7/20). (4) Debate at the UN about the RB-47 reconnaissance bomber shot down over Russia: Soviet Foreign minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov (3 cuts), US Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, (7/22). (5) Rep. John McCormack (D-MA) on an "unusual situation" at the Republican national convention (2 cuts, 7/25). (6) Debate over the RB-47 issue continues at the UN Security Council – US Ambassador Lodge (4 cuts, 7/25). (7) Debate over the RB-47 issue continues at the UN Security Council – US Ambassador Lodge (3 cuts, 7/26). (8) Sen. John F. Kennedy on the upcoming presidential race, "This is going to be a hard-fought campaign" (7/28). (9) Sen. Henry Jackson (D-WA) remarks Democrats "have the chance and the opportunity of carrying all 50 [states]" (7/25). (10) Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in Washington on the struggle in his country (2 cuts, 7/28).
- 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-077156; Other: 0492-MMC
Access Restrictions
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