Excerpt of the 1958 debate between Linus Pauling and Edward Teller on nuclear weapons and radioation. Followed by a dramatic spoof of Teller's opinions.
Retrospective on the San Francisco beat scene of the late 50s: recordings of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Patchen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, and Kenneth Rexroth.
Ginsberg reads his controverial poem. A panel discussion recorded in 1957 follows with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lew Hill, and others discussing the obsenity charges.|HOWL / by Allen Ginsberg| produced by Lili Francklyn| moderated by Lew Hill.
The 1953 testimony of William Mandel before Joseph McCarthy in a televised encounter recorded off the air.|THE GUY WHO GOT SENATOR JOE / produced by Laurie Garrett. - SERIES: KPFA thirty year retrospective| 1953.
"Suburban Sadness" was produced for the year 1952 in KPFA's thirty-year retrospective. Suburbia's housing developments and housewives, cars, televisions, drive-ins and Cold War anxieties are all discussed in the context of music from the early fifties. There is the story of a typical American family according to one journalist, and an analysis of suburbia by Prof.
A former nuclear official talks about the early years of the nuclear power age. Contains music from the period.|THE BIRTH OF NUCLEAR POWER / Aileen Alfandary and Laurie Garrett. The fifties witnessed the dawning of the nuclear power age. Unquestioned by most, nuclear power development moved at a rapid pace.