Philip Quarles

W. H. Auden, Herbert Kubly, and John O'Hara win awards at the 1956 National Book Awards ceremony.

Journalist Louis Lomax seizes the opportunity to address a white, middle class, audience and give a concise picture of what is going through the mind of a contemporary black man.

"What manner of man is U Thant?"

Dr. Kenneth Clark answers reporters' questions in this edition of the NBC news show, Searchlight airing over WNYC. 

Scientist Dr. Roger Revelle looks ahead to life in the year 2000 in this 1966 talk at the Rensselaerville Institute.

This program, broadcast on New Year's Day, 1950, "the pivot point of the American century," offers the views of several prominent citizens, on what the next fifty years will bring.

The late governor and senator Herbert Lehman is remembered at this 1965 meeting of the American Jewish Committee.

Algonquin Round Table wit, Marc Connelly, speaks at the 1968 Books and Authors Luncheon about his memoir, Voices Offstage.

Balanced Government, for St. Denis, is a dual presidency held by both a man and a woman, "at present, the men govern this world including America as though women didn't exist."

Audrey Wood doesn't just represent, she advocates. 

"All I can do is tell you how it looked to me." 

In this 1952 broadcast, Socialist Party presidential candidate Darlington Hoopes makes his case against capitalism.

MoMA asks, Does the Public Get What it Wants?

Senator Joseph McCarthy rails against former president Harry Truman in this 1953 speech.

Nelson Rockefeller takes the oath of office in this 1959 recording of the governor's inauguration. 

"Civil wrongs don’t make for civil rights," John Lindsay quotes Adlai Stevenson, as American cities convulse with race riots in 1967

Krishna Menon, Chairman of the Indian delegation to the United Nations, answers questions from the foreign press in this 1956 edition of International Interview. 

Dismissing the North Vietnamese government's "absurd claims of victory," General William Westmoreland assures the public that triumph in Vietnam is close at hand.

Jean H. Felker discusses the technology and meaning of Telstar.

Burl Ives lets his guitar do the talking.