Again this week, From the Vault continues its celebration of Black History Month with audio from the companion CD to Herb Boyd’s book, We Shall Overcome: The History of the Civil Rights Movement as it Happened, published by Sourcebooks in 2004. Several historic programs from the Pacifica Radio Archives were used in creating the audio tour through the Civil Rights Movement era. This is a prime example of how the recordings preserved by the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project find new lives and are heard by new audiences. The entire hour is narrated by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis – and one of the last projects Mr. Davis worked on before his passing in February of 2005.

In this hour, you will hear from the historic March On Washington, Bayard Rustin, Daisy Bates (one of the Little Rock Nine) and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. eulogizing the 4 girls who were killed in the Birmingham church bombing. You will also hear Fannie Lou Hamer, Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and Robert Kennedy. The program begins with a segment featuring Medgar Evers.

Click here to purchase a copy of this program or learn more about and purchase copies of the historic archival recordings used within this episode. To purchase a CD copy of this program by phone, please call Pacifica Radio Archives at 800.735.0230 x 262.

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This week, From the Vault continues its celebration of Black History Month with audio from the companion CD to Herb Boyd’s book, We Shall Overcome: The History of the Civil Rights Movement as it Happened, published by Sourcebooks in 2004. Several historic programs from the Pacifica Radio Archives were used in creating the audio tour through the Civil Rights Movement era. This is a prime example of how the recordings preserved by the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project find new lives and are heard by new audiences. The entire hour is narrated by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis – and one of the last projects Mr. Davis worked on before his passing in February of 2005.

Your Pacifica Radio Archives audio experience will include Brown v. Board of Education, the Little Rock Nine, Freedom Riders, James Meredith in Mississippi, Birmingham, George Wallace and John F. Kennedy, and Fannie Lou Hamer, to name a few.

Click here to purchase a copy of this program or learn more about and purchase copies of the historic archival recordings used within this episode. To purchase a CD copy of this program by phone, please call Pacifica Radio Archives at 800.735.0230 x 262.

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This week, From the Vault will explore the recent global warming movement through more recently recorded audio materials now housed in the Pacifica Radio Archives vault. With the help of volunteer producer Alexandra Kravetz, we’ve put together a fascinating look at the relationship between scientific research on Earth’s ever-changing climate, the US Government, and Big Business. The sounds we will hear chronicle the twisted journey that facts undergo as they make their way from laboratories of hard science to the halls of Congress, and how corporate spin produces slick press releases and ironically named legislation to further the complacency of the masses. With audio from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Ross Gelbspan, Rep. Henry Waxman, Seth Schulman, Chris Mooney, Exploration’s Dr. Michio Kaku, Counterspin’s Steve Rendall, and Maria Armoudian.

Plus, in the second half hour, we’ll hear special audio collage compiled by Pacifica Radio Archives’ senior producer, Mark Torres, in honor of Black History Month. During February, From the Vault will bring you historic audio from Pacifica Radio Archives that a pays special tribute to important designation of this month.

From the Vault is presented as part of the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project.

Archival recordings used in this week’s episode, Spinning Disaster:

PZ0555.22 Explorations: March 2-8, 2004 MORE INFO

PZ0604.49 Explorations: September 6-12, 2005 MORE INFO

PZ0555.47 Explorations: August 24-30, 2004 MORE INFO

Materials were also taken from Counterspin from Friday , April 29, 2005, and Insiders with Maria Armoudian from Thursday, January 18, 2007.

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On January 12, 2007, Alice Coltrane passed away from respiratory failure in the West Hills of Los Angeles. She was 69.

Alice was a very humble woman, rarely speaking to the press and preferring to speak about John when she did. In July 2005, she was gracious enough to sit down with her friend and KPFK music programmer, Maggie LePique, and Mark Torres from the Pacifica Radio Archives.

The interview is intimate and personal, sticking mostly to John’s life and her life with him, but it is candid and unlike any other interview Alice Coltrane gave. We’re proud to say it only exists here in the Pacifica Radio Archives. And this week, to honor Alice Coltrane and her husband John Coltrane, we air excerpts from the documentary that was made from the original interview, entitled ‘Trane Legacy.

Archival recordings used in this week’s episode, The Coltrane Legacy:

PZ0659.01-.02 The John Coltrane Pack MORE INFO

Click here to purchase a copy of this program or learn more about and purchase copies of the historic archival recordings used within this episode. To purchase a CD copy of this program by phone, please call Pacifica Radio Archives at 800.735.0230 x 262.

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