When the news began that morning, and updated reports concerning the shootings at a movie theater in Aurora Colorado throughout the day, I was reminded at the time of how all-too-familiar it seemed. How it has repeated over and over throughout the years. How violence in America, senseless acts of carnage, seemed to be almost part of our National consciousness; imprinted in our DNA. The causes are probably as many and varied as there are personalities in any given neighborhood. But the end result is the same; innocent death, questionable motives and a trail of physical and emotional wreckage to last complete lifetimes.
Here, from a 1969 radio documentary, part of the NBC Radio Second Sunday series is an earlier look at the violence that has torn through America, that has left other physical and emotional wreckage behind it. And how it, even some 40+ years later, appears to have not changed one bit.
We’re doing our year-end Fundraiser – so if you would be so kind as to kick in a few bucks to our Go Fund Me site, it would be appreciated beyond belief.
America: The Vision And The Violence – 1969 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
When the news began that morning, and updated reports concerning the shootings at a movie theater in Aurora Colorado throughout the day, I was reminded at the time of how all-too-familiar it seemed. How it has repeated over and over throughout the years. How violence in America, senseless acts of carnage, seemed to be almost part of our National consciousness; imprinted in our DNA. The causes are probably as many and varied as there are personalities in any given neighborhood. But the end result is the same; innocent death, questionable motives and a trail of physical and emotional wreckage to last complete lifetimes.
Here, from a 1969 radio documentary, part of the NBC Radio Second Sunday series is an earlier look at the violence that has torn through America, that has left other physical and emotional wreckage behind it. And how it, even some 40+ years later, appears to have not changed one bit.
We’re doing our year-end Fundraiser – so if you would be so kind as to kick in a few bucks to our Go Fund Me site, it would be appreciated beyond belief.
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