The radioactive debate / produced by Laurie Garrett.
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.
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Pauling before the SISS / produced by Laurie Garrett.
The 1958 Senate Internal Securities Subcommittee hearing in which Linus Pauling refused to disclose the names of others opposed to nuclear weapons.
The Beat poets of San Francisco / produced by Lili Francklyn and Michael Yoshida.
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.
Howl / by Allen Ginsberg ; produced by Lili Francklyn.
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 Last great polio epidemic / produced by Philip Maldari.
An interview with Johnie Lacy, a polio victim.
The Guy who got Senator Joe / produced by Laurie Garrett.
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.
The Birth of T.V. / produced by Lili Francklyn and Robin Steinhardt.
Professor Charlie Smith assesses television's impact on society. Includes examples of television shows from the 50s.
Suburban sadness / produced by Lili Francklyn and Robin Steinhardt.
"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.
McCarthyism and communism / produced by Ruth Goldberger and Ken Russell.
On the anti-communist movement and how the Community Party defended itself.
The Birth of nuclear power / Dr. John Gofman ; produced by Aileen Alfandary and Laurie Garrett.
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.
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