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The Columbia Center for Oral History is the oldest and largest organized oral history program in the world. Founded in 1948 by Pulitzer Prize winning historian Allan Nevins, the oral history collection now contains over 8,000 interviews, in audio, video and text formats, on a wide variety of subject…

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    • Dec 20, 2011 LATEST EPISODE
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    A Medley Of Voices: Bella Abzug; Gene Kelly; Learned Hand; Alice Paul; Bennet Cerf; Omar Bradley; Edward Koch; Norman Thomas

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 6:06


    A medley of voices from the archives of the Columbia Center for Oral History including segments from interviews with Bella Abzug, Gene Kelly, Learned Hand, Alice Paul, Bennet Cerf, Omar Bradley, Edward Koch, and Norman Thomas.

    A Medley Of Voices: Hubert Humphrey; James Cagney; Joan Ganz Cooney; Ralph Flanders

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 3:25


    A medley of voices from the archives of the Columbia Center for Oral History including segments from interviews with Hubert H. Humphrey, James Cagney, Joan Ganz Cooney, Ralph Flanders, and Kitty Carlisle Hart.

    Abraham A. Ribicoff: Chicago, 1968

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 5:55


    American politician Abraham A. Ribicoff, in this 1993 interview, describes the events leading up to his famous impromptu speech at the 1968 Democratic National Convention condemning police assaults on anti-war protesters outside the convention center and convention delegates’ responses to it.

    Aldino Feliciani: A Last Visit With Sacco And Vanzetti

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 3:27


    Aldino Feliciani describes his last meeting with anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti.

    Bobby Bowen: Reading Malcolm X

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 5:09


    Former Black Panther leader Bobby Bowen, in a 1984 interview, recalls the first time he read the Autobiography of Malcolm X and explains the profound impact the book had upon him and others of his generation.

    Fred Astaire: Dancing On The Ceiling

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 3:41


    Fred Astaire, in this 1971 interview, recalls the making of the iconic scene in the film “Royal Wedding” in which he danced on the ceiling.

    George McAneny: The First Interview; Charles Burlingham: Benjamin Cardozo

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 5:51


    Segments from the first interviews undertaken by the Columbia Center for Oral History by founder Allen Nevins in 1949.

    Helen Suzman: Meeting Nelson Mandela

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 3:44


    South African anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman describes her first meeting with Nelson Mandela while he was a prisoner on Robben Island in this 1984 interview.

    Judith Anderson: A Man Called Horse

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 4:19


    Actress Judith Anderson, interviewed in 1971 for an oral history project on the Hollywood film industry, recalls her misadventures shooting the film, “A Man Called Horse.”

    Kenneth Lipper: Campaigning with Koch

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 5:10


    Kenneth Lipper, former New York City Deputy Mayor, explained how an incident in a movie theater, not only illustrated Mayor Edward I. Koch’s personal style but also shed light on his tremendous success as a New York City politician. Interview Session: 1992

    Mario Savio: Mississippi Summer

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 7:37


    In a 1985 interview Mario Savio, American political activist and leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, recalls the Freedom Summer of 1964 and his experience during the campaign to register black voters in rural Mississippi.

    Muriel Gardiner: Vienna, 1938

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 4:50


    American Psychoanalyst Muriel Gardiner recalls an evening in 1938 when Nazi soldiers and sympathizers marched into Vienna.

    Orvil Faubus: Little Rock

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 5:00


    In 1971 Arkansas Governor Orvil Faubus defended his record on Civil Rights and recounted a private meeting he had with President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the midst of Little Rock school desegregation in 1957.

    Nita Naldi: Blood And Sand

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 3:33


    Actress Nita Naldi, interviewed in 1959 for a project on the American Popular Arts, describes how she won the lead role in the iconic film “Blood and Sand.”

    Thurgood Marshall: Appointment

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 6:12


    Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, in this 1977 interview conducted by Ed Edwin, recounts how he first learned of his appointment to the Supreme Court.

    Dorothy Parker: Hollywood

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 4:34


    Joan Franklin interviews American poet, writer, critic and satirist Dorothy Parker in 1955 for the Popular Arts Project. In this excerpt Parker explained her move to Hollywood in the early 1930s and discussed the attraction to writing for film.

    Joseph O'Neill: The AIDS Epidemic

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2011 8:26


    Joseph O'Neill, a medical student when AIDS first appeared in San Francisco in the early 1980s, became one of the nation’s first doctors to specialize in AIDS treatment. In this excerpt from his 1995 interview, O’Neill recalls the case that changed his life.

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