As the Pacifica Radio Archives presents its 1968 Revolution Rewind series, we have listened to critical events from 40 years ago and the voices of the key figures during that time. This week we listen to two visionary thinkers, both writers of the future who have guided humanity by daring us to exercise our imagination – Ray Bradbury and Gene Roddenberry – as they address the 1968 World Science Fiction Convention held at the Hotel Claremont in Berkeley California.

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Juneteenth (June 19th) commemorates a significant day in African American history. Juneteenth, also known as African American Emancipation Day, is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. In 2002 the five Pacifica stations preempted regular programming to simulcast a 15-hour special Juneteenth broadcast. In this episode of From the Vault, we feature highlights from that historic day of radio.

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This week on From The Vault we present an hour of this year’s KPFK Gay Day Time Capsule Broadcast. In this hour, Pacifica Radio Archives Director Brian Deshazor teams with actor and comedian Jason Stewart and KPFK Senior Producer Christine Blosdale to take a hilarious romp through our archival recordings, music, and film clips.

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In this episode of From the Vault, we listen to the fight from gay civil rights from the Stonewall Riots of 1969 to present day. We’ll also have a sneak preview of a special Pacifica Radio Archives project designed to gather the voices of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans gender, and queer communities in all their diversity for a Gay Day broadcast from sunup to sundown on Sunday June 14, 2009 – the first such broadcast in Los Angeles since 1995!

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