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    John Boswell: Mister Rogers Remix | “Garden of Your Mind”

    Jun 19, 2012 in You Think So

    Another pop culture icon has returned from the dead to appear in a wildly popular YouTube video. Mister Rogers has a remixed video by Symphony of Science’s John Boswell for PBS Digital Studios.

    We’re talking about the same Mister Rogers, Fred Rogers, the man who was an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church,  an American educator, songwriter, author, and television host. The Boswell/Rogers collaboration is following on the heels of the successful  holographic image concert of Tupac Shakur. (more…)

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    Juneteenth More Joyous Than Martin Luther King’s Birthday

    Jun 19, 2012 in You Think So

    President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the document which freed all slaves in the United States, took effect on Jan. 1, 1863. The hats, horns, pots and pans for celebrating liberation didn’t come out for two and a half years.

    From published slave narratives we have an account of how the holiday began; it is said the Emancipation Proclamation was read to slaves in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, more than two years after it officially went into effect. As word of the end of slavery spread, Juneteenth was created to commemorate that day.

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    Folklore tells why the news of freedom took so long to arrive. There were no instantaneous electronic or digital communications in 1862. No Twitter, or Internet, email or blogs! There was no teevee or radio; there were some newspapers, or fliers, for the few people who were able to read. (more…)

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    Martin Luther King, Jr., March On Washington: View From The Control Room | TV News Director Max A. Schindler

    Jun 08, 2012 in View From The Control Room-Max A. Schindler, You Think So

    You Think What proudly presents a series of remembrances of a television news director’s career. Max A. Schindler worked for the NBC News Bureau in Washington, D.C. for many years. In this second article he describes directing news coverage of a gathering of mostly black civil rights activists in the nation’s capital. This time Max tells the reader what it was like to be present while capturing the televised images of a truly American historic event.

    View From The Control Room Segment#2
    by Max A. Schindler
    The March on Washington

    August 28, 1963

    The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a large rally in support of equal rights for African Americans.  There were somewhere between 200,000 to 300,000 people who participated.  Approximately 75 to 80 percent were African Americans…the rest were white and other minorities.  It was estimated over 500 cameramen, technicians and correspondents were there to cover this event for the networks and news media.  I was there with my crew to cover the major speeches at the Lincoln Memorial.  Other crews were in various locations all over the grounds at the Washington Monument, where the march was to begin, and along the mall in between the two memorials.

    The leaders of the march were A. Philip Randolph, James Farmer, John Lewis, Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young.  The event included musical performances by Marion Anderson, Joan Baez, Mahalia Jackson; Peter, Paul and Mary and Josh White.  Charlton Heston representing many artists…Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Ossie Davis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Diahann Carroll, Lena Horne, Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier…gave a speech on behalf of all of them.

    The speech that will be long remembered, though, is the famous “I Have A Dream” speech by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  (more…)

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    JFK Coverage After Dallas Assassination: View From The Control Room | TV News Director Max A. Schindler

    Jun 07, 2012 in View From The Control Room-Max A. Schindler, You Think So

    You Think What proudly presents a series of remembrances of a television news director’s career. Max A. Schindler worked for the NBC News Bureau in Washington, D.C. for many years. In this first article he describes directing news coverage following the Kennedy assassination; what it was like to be present while capturing the televised images of JFK’s coffin being removed from Air Force One upon its arrival at Andrews Air Force Base. How he felt as an eyewitness to history on that mournful November day in 1963  for all Americans, and people around the world.

    View From The Control Room Segment#1

    by Max A. Schindler

    November 22, 1963

    I was in my car on my way to work, about 4 or 5 blocks from the NBC News Bureau in Washington, DC. . At a red light a woman in the car next to me was screaming…I rolled down my window and she said “Turn on your radio”.  I turned on the radio and heard that President John Kennedy and Governor John Connally had been shot in Dallas, Texas.  I drove to the bureau and raced into the newsroom. It was chaotic and people were running around…many were not sure of what to do. The bureau chief told me to have my wife pack a bag, for an untold number of days, and to send it by cab. A plane had been chartered to take a group of us to Dallas for the coverage. Before my bag arrived we heard the special news bulletin  the President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was dead. (more…)

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