Annie Crabill
speaker
212 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Annie Crabill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
The Soviet Union consolidated its grip on Eastern Europe, and in 1949, it tested an atomic bomb that opened a new kind of conflict, ideological and global, but without direct fighting, because of mutually assured destruction.
New proxy wars began on the Korean peninsula.
And then in Vietnam.
Аз Америка resisted Soviet expansion and tried to push a liberal order abroad.
Back home.
The civil rights movement was picking up pace.
In nineteen fifty-four, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public schools denied black Americans equal treatment.
It was the first blow to the Jim Crow era.
The Economist supported the move.
The next year Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
The first televised presidential debate in 1960 saw youthful, smiling John F.
Kennedy pitted against a tired-looking, sweaty Richard Nixon.
Kennedy was the youngest person ever elected president, and his brief time in office was a triumph in image making, beginning with his inaugural address.
Even in his first week, President Kennedy set a new tone of urgency.
The economist said at the time
His years in office were shaped by Cuba.
In his first year, he botched an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro, but in nineteen sixty two he managed the Cuban Missile Crisis with deft diplomacy.
Kennedy died by assassination in nineteen sixty-three.
An almost mythical figure with a sense of promise unfulfilled.
In the same year, Martin Luther King Junior gave his now famous speech.
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