Can Hear It Now: The Sixties

Walter Cronkite | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (March 2, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000IFK7
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,204,049 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Prologue: "I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great..."

2. Warnings for the Decade

3. Jan. 20, 1961: "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You..."

4. Jan. 30, 1961: "Each Day the Crises Multiply..."

5. Excerpts from 1960 Debate on Cuba

6. April 17, 1961: Un Security Council, Ambassador Adlai Stevenson Denies

7. April 21, 1961: News Conference: JFK Takes Responsibility for Bay ...

8. July 25, 1961: Berlin Crisis; Need for Air Shelters

9. June 26, 1963: "Ich Bin Ein Berliner..."

10. Dec. 6, 1961: (Humor) N.A.M. Speech/June 11, 1962: Yale Honorary ...

See all 39 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Jan. 28, 1966: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearings on ...

2. Government Officials Voice Optimism About Vietnam [1964, 1967, 1968]

3. Aug. 5, 1965: Burning of Village of Cam Ne

4. Nov., 1965: Great Power Blackout/Nov. 9, 1964? Rickover Accepts ...

5. Contrasts in Music of Decade: Tony Bennett/The Beatles/Bob Dylan

6. Oct. 4, 1965: At United Nations

7. Riots & Civil Disorders: Watts, L.A. (8/65) /Detroit (67) /Newark (67)

8. Feb. 29, 1968: Report of President's Commission on Violence

9. The Times They Are A-Changin'

10. June 5, 1967: Call for Holy War of Vengeance Against Israel

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "AND THAT'S THE WAY IT IS", November 22, 2000

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David V. Daniels - See all my reviews

This review is from: Can Hear It Now: The Sixties (Audio CD)

Those were the words spoken by Walter Cronkite at the end of the CBS Evening News. For some of us,too young to be in Saigon,or preoccupied with the latest dalliances of Lisa Hughes,(As The World Turns)Walter Cronkite was the eyes and ears of perhaps the most turbulent decade of the 20th Century. In I Can Hear It Now,we are given a review through Cronkite's narration as well as through the CBS News Archives, of the 1960's. How many people were tuned into AS THE WORLD TURNS November 22,1963 when the fateful bulletin from Dallas flashed into our living rooms? This CD brings you right there.Perhaps for some this is the defining moment of the sixties,but I Can Hear it Now brings you ALL of the voices and events of the time...King,the Beatles,Rachel Carson,Neil Armstrong. This is a must have for history and pop culture buffs. Also gives one an idea of what CBS News was at one time-probably the best source of news at the time.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The sounds of history, January 17, 2009

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Michael H. Mundt (Sulphur, Louisiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Can Hear It Now: The Sixties (Audio CD)

For those too young to have been old enough to remember the 60s, these recordings probably won't have the same impact as they have on us that lived through them and saw/heard them as they happened.

All of the really momentous happenings are captured in this collection of sound clips of the 60s. Listening to all these events seems almost unreal knowing what we know now. The 60s were world changing times.

In spite of the threat of nuclear war, we really were in a much more innocent world.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars how it really was, January 16, 2006

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Donald T. Wardlow "donald t wardlow" (Myrtle Beach area, sc usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Can Hear It Now: The Sixties (Audio CD)

In these days of revisionist history, with CNN being so busy trying to bash the government they can't be bothered to actually broadcast the news, a CD like this ought to be required listening for everybody. We'll just make the same mistakes over and over again if we turn our backs on our country's past, as so many people under 35 seem anxious to do. In fact, this gem ought to be cheaper so no matter how broken your "fixed income," is, you can afford this. Cronkite had no equal in his own time. his only superior was his mentor, Edward R. Murrow, who also did an "I can hear it Now," album, about 1919--49, now sadly out of print. This is a must own.