500th letter

Update: 1957-09-08

Description

Alistair Cooke remembers Lindsay Wellington, the BBC head who came up with the idea of weekly letters to help people in the UK understand American life in 1946.

Comments

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Bobby Kennedy's assassination, 1968

1968-06-0913:48

1000th letter - American reactions to Vietnam, 1968

1968-03-2414:09

Christmas 1967

1967-12-2413:37

Honeymoon with President Johnson, 1966

1966-08-2114:01

The LA Watts riots, 1965

1965-08-2214:00

Clay vs Liston Fight

1965-05-3013:46

President Johnson's inauguration, 1965

1965-01-1713:59

Assassination of J F Kennedy, 1963

1963-11-2414:14

Big brains

1962-01-2113:53

500th letter

1957-09-0815:42

William Kapell (1922-1953)

1953-11-0513:01

Television in America, 1951

1951-01-1913:54

A fragment from 1947

1947-01-1204:29

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500th letter