Author Rachel Carson at the Book and Author Luncheon on WNYC in 1951 | From the WNYC Archives
As part of WNYC's centennial celebration, each week we'll take listeners on a tour of key moments from the WNYC and NYC Municipal archives.
In this clip, author, marine biologist and nature conservationist Rachel Carson talks about her book “The Sea Around Us” at the New York Herald Tribune's Books and Authors Luncheon broadcast by WNYC on October 25, 1951.
Audio courtesy the Municipal Archive.
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From the Archives selections include press conferences, events, and interviews with notables such as Jack Kerouac (1958), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1964), Martin Scorsese (1970), Gloria Steinem (1982), and Barack Obama (2007). Listeners will also hear key historic news reports that aired on WNYC, including the announcement of the attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), a broadcast of a town hall meeting on the Atom Bomb (1951), and WNYC journalists running toward the Twin Towers to report on 9/11 (2001).
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