Week 6: Listening Script – Hanna Rinderknecht-Mahaffy

“The first words I spoke in the original phonograph. “Mary had a little lamb its fleece as white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go’.”

Kenny G – Auld Lang Syne: The Millenium Mix:

The 20th Century in Pictures

“Today, frightened investors ordered their brokers to sell it whatever the price and the stock market crashed.”

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

“Horrific place ladies and gentleman. The smoke and the flames now, oh the humanity.”

“The help and support of the women I ah? ???”

“People to evacuate the city as Martians approach.”

“Never to go to war with one another again.”

“this country is at war with Germany.”

“December 7th, 1941..The Japanese have attached Pearl Harbor…a day that will live in infamy.”

“Bob command performance hope telling each Nazi and Russian today that Crimea doesn’t pay”

“I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth” “President Franklin D. Roosevelt…”

“ The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima”

“reports from Germany tell of horrors leading to the total extermination of the Jews of Europe.”

“Iron Curtain has descended across..”

“Jackie Robinson goes to bat in the first time in a major league..”

“Those soldiers never died, they just..” “Lucy?” “Fade away”

“It was a little cocker spaniel dog, and our little girl Trisha, the 6 year old, named it chex”

“are you a member of the communist party?” “Oh, a cop, eh?” “Or have you ever been a member of the communist party?”

“Baby, you’re the greatest” “…Elvis Presley…I’d like to thank all these warm folks and I’d like to thank you”

“Three young singers were killed today in the crash of a light plane”

“American Bandstand. And now here he is, the star of our show, ..”

“ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

“Standing up, waiting to see him…”

“Happy Birthday, mister..”

“Wondering how, and why, Marilyn Monroe died, in her…”

“President Kennedy died at 1pm…Lee Harvey Oswald..”

“I have a dream, my four little children one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
“And I say, segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.” “I have a dream today’

“I’m about to sign into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964”>

“The Beatles”

“I have today ordered to Vietnam the air mobile division. Additional forces will be needed later and they will be sent.”

“Very sad news for all of you, Martin Luther King was shot and killed tonight”

“He said many times, many thoughts this nation. Some men see things as they are and say why, I dream things that never were and say why not.”

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”

“It’s a free concert form now on…We must be in heaven man”

“Four persons including two women were shot and killed in Ohio today, hundreds were involved, as..”

“agreement, to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam”

“That ball is going to be out of here…There’s a new home run champion of all time.”
“I am not a crook” “Heeeere’s Jonny!” “I shall resign the presidency, effective at noon tomorrow” “Absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon”

“My name is Jimmy Carter and I’m running for President.”

“Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night.”
“Elvis Presley died today at Baptist hospital in Memphis.”
“John Lenin was brought to the emergency room, he was dead on arrival”

“today marks day number 64 of the hostage crisis in Iraq.”

“I Diana take thee Charles..to my wedded husband.”
“Disease striking primarily in the gay community, called Acquired Immune Deficiency”

“25th base of omission…the Challenger…we will never forget them or the last time we saw them, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped through bonds of earth to touch the face of God.”

“I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the Presidency..” “Senator you’re no Jack Kennedy”

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”  

“I don’t think it was wrong”…”We did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages”…”I think it was a neat idea”
“Everyone on Sesame Street is always talking about love…yuck”
“Berliners from east and west standing on top of the wall.”
“Skies over Baghdad have been illuminated”

“Read my lips..”

“We the jury in the title action…Find the defendant, O.J Simpson not guilty of the crime of murder”
Princess Diana died of injuries suffered in a car accident”

I’m Ellen and I’m gay.”

“Yeah, baby”

“62..and we have a new homerun champion”
“Welcome, you’ve got mail.”

“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”…“the vast, right wing conspiracy conspiring against my husband”… “Indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate, that was not appropriate…In fact it was wrong.”

“The young killers of Columbine High School do not stand for the spirit of America. We can rise up and we can say, no more.”

“Let the world go forth from this time and place, and the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans”

 

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