“Dear Mr. President,” Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January or February 1942

“Dear Mr. President” recordings.  Part of After the Day of Infamy: “Man-on-the-Street” Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Created / Published: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 13, 1942.  Featuring Mrs. William Houghton (“housewife”), Clark W. Kelley (newspaper representative), Gladys Crawley (“Negro girl” city clerk), Paul L. Houston (cab company), John Forelli (coal miner), and George J. Shale …

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Hail, Pennsylvania!

Until 1990 the song served as the official song for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. “Hail, Pennsylvania!” is a song written by Edgar M. Dilley (Class of 1897) as a submission to a University of Pennsylvania alumni committee-sponsored contest to write a song to the tune of “God Save the Tsar!“, the national anthem of Imperial Russia, by Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov. Edgar …

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Historic Evening – Beaver County Radio Broadcasts Its First Live Video Stream From A High School Game

Here is the inaugural touchdown broadcast from an on site live stream video format created by Beaver County Radio. Chippewa Township, PA)  72 years ago, WBVP started broadcasting local high school football and basketball games on the radio.  Over the years, there have been several changes, improvements and innovations to the traditional A.M. radio broadcasts, …

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Carl Davidson: Rag Radio 2020-07-17 – Socialist Intellectual Carl Davidson

Carl Davidson, a longtime friend and colleague, was a leader of the ’60s New Left. In the 1960s, Davidson served as Vice President and National Secretary of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and was a writer and editor at the leftist Guardian newsweekly. On the show we discuss the unprecedented convergence of crises facing us …

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John Barber: In My Own Words

John Barber came home from Vietnam after two tours of intense jungle combat.  Sometimes during those search and destroy missions, most of the guys in his unit never made it back—at least in one piece.  Why he survived the odds is hard to understand, he ponders.  Maybe it was luck.  Maybe not. POST SCRIPT: The …

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