Program Title:
The Last American hero / by Tom Wolfe ; produced by Tom Hansell.
Series Title:
PRA Archive #:
SZ0745.02A-C
Description:
Non-fiction story about Southern style Stock Car racing in the early sixties, featuring fictious driver Junior Johnson from Wilkes County, North Carolina.
r.1. Introduction to Junior Johnson, the last of the hard chargers who made stock car racing and muscle cars popular during Detroit's horsepower wars of the 1960's -- r.2. A visit to Junior Johnson's home in Engle Holler, where it is learned that his family has dealings in the "whiskey business" -- r.3. The conclusion to the story shows how Junior Johnson's moonshining experience prepared him for stockcar racing.
Station:
Date Recorded on:
1992.
Date Broadcast on:
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Item duration:
3 reels (90 min.) : 7 1/2 ips., mono.
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Distributor:
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1992.
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