Welcome to the first episode of Sound of History. On this episode, you’ll find John F. Kennedy cracking jokes about Marx in front of a bunch of newspaper publishers, Ronald Reagan talking about the Challenger, some blues from 1922, and an Edison recording from 1902.

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Timeline

• 00:02 — Theme Music
  Lonesome Mama Blues (excerpt) by Markel’s Orchestra
  March 23, 1922
• 00:22 — Introduction
• 01:10 — Introduction to Kennedy speech
• 02:12 — John F. Kennedy
  The President and the Press [transcript]
  April 27, 1961
• 21:26 — Interlude (Lonesome Mama Blues)
• 21:55 — Introduction to Reagan speech
• 22:34 — Ronald Reagan
  Address on the Space Shuttle Challenger [transcript]
  January 28, 1986
• 26:52 — Interlude
  Nearer, My God, to Thee
  Recorded by the Edison Concert Band
  1902
• 29:12 — Description of Nearer, My God, to Thee
  President McKinley’s possible relation to this recording
• 30:04 — Thanks, next week
• 30:19 — About Sound of History, invitation to send comments
• 31:35 — Credits, copyright, and full theme
• 32:22 — End of credits (theme continues)
• 34:33 — End of theme; end of recording

This episode is Copyright (c) 2006 by John Goerzen and is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.