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August 26, 2023 10:16 AM Subscribe
"If that had been us that attacked the Capitol a couple of years ago, they would have shot us." Remembering the March on Washington 60 years ago.
Oral history now, but at the time just a taste of things as they were happening, Studs Turkel rode the train from Chicago to DC with a group of marchers and he took his tape recorder with him and made an episode of his iconic WFMT program about it. Available at the Studs Turkel Radio Archive: Interviewing people on the train ride to Washington, D.C., going to the civil rights March on Washington
posted by Quinbus Flestrin at 12:46 PM on August 26, 2023 [7 favorites]
posted by Quinbus Flestrin at 12:46 PM on August 26, 2023 [7 favorites]
Today WWOZ played the entire MLK speech backed by jazz, and they're going to play it again soon.
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posted by credulous at 11:21 PM on August 27, 2023 [2 favorites]
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