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Title: Studio 360: American Icons - The Lincoln Memorial
Author: Kurt Andersen
Format: Original Recording
Length: 53 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-20-10
Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International
Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews
Publisher's Summary:
Kurt Andersen explores how the Lincoln Memorial became America's soapbox, and how our yearning to connect with Lincoln speaks to the better angels of our nature; with Sarah Vowell, David Strathairn, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Next, in the spring of 1939, opera singer Marian Anderson was banned from performing at Washington, D.C.'s Constitution Hall because she was African-American. So First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt offered Anderson a new venue, the Lincoln Memorial. Dorothy Height remembers how that event sparked a relationship between the Civil Rights movement and the statue of Lincoln.
Then, the Lincoln Memorial has become enshrined in our popular imagination as the back-drop to Martin Luther King Jr's 1963 "I have a dream" speech. Kurt Andersen talks with Professor James Horton about the hope King inspired, and how it continues to resonate at the Lincoln Memorial.
Finally, you might remember the scene from Oliver Stone's movie Nixon: the President went to the Lincoln Memorial in the dark of night and was confronted there by student protesters, who were camped out before a massive demonstration over the decision to invade Cambodia. Former White House aide Egil "Bud" Krogh says Stone got it wrong - Nixon didn't just talk about football. [Broadcast Date: February 20, 2010]
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Title: Studio 360: American Icons - The Lincoln Memorial
Author: Kurt Andersen
Format: Original Recording
Length: 53 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-20-10
Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International
Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews
Publisher's Summary:
Kurt Andersen explores how the Lincoln Memorial became America's soapbox, and how our yearning to connect with Lincoln speaks to the better angels of our nature; with Sarah Vowell, David Strathairn, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Next, in the spring of 1939, opera singer Marian Anderson was banned from performing at Washington, D.C.'s Constitution Hall because she was African-American. So First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt offered Anderson a new venue, the Lincoln Memorial. Dorothy Height remembers how that event sparked a relationship between the Civil Rights movement and the statue of Lincoln.
Then, the Lincoln Memorial has become enshrined in our popular imagination as the back-drop to Martin Luther King Jr's 1963 "I have a dream" speech. Kurt Andersen talks with Professor James Horton about the hope King inspired, and how it continues to resonate at the Lincoln Memorial.
Finally, you might remember the scene from Oliver Stone's movie Nixon: the President went to the Lincoln Memorial in the dark of night and was confronted there by student protesters, who were camped out before a massive demonstration over the decision to invade Cambodia. Former White House aide Egil "Bud" Krogh says Stone got it wrong - Nixon didn't just talk about football. [Broadcast Date: February 20, 2010]