Digital Audio Files

Here are some sounds for your enjoyment. 

Click on the file name to go to the sound file -- with an appropriate helper app you may be able to play it. Otherwise, with browsers such as Netscape you can SHIFT+CLICK on the name to download it to your disk and play it later. 

apollo Astronaut Frank Borman sends a Christmas greeting from space.

carterl1 Jimmy Carter announces he is running for President.

chrchl1 Winston Churchill, in his first radio address, urges the English to stand tall.

chrchl2 Winston Churchill adresses the people of England.

earhrt1 Amilia Earhart discusses aviation and women's potential role in it.

edkfrrfk Senator Edward Kennedy eulogizes his brother, Robert F. Kennedy.

fonoprmo Promotional message from Edison's first commercial phonograph

hanka Hank Aaron's address to Congress.

Jesse1 Jesse Jackson, asks forgiveness for acting rashly.

jfk1 In the presidential debate with Nixon, JFK urges us to look to the future.

jfk2 In his inaugural address, JFK exhorts his countrymen to ask what they can do for their country.

jhnsn1 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.

malcolm Excerpt from Malcolm X, On Black Power

mayor Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, speaks on the disorder at the 1968 democratic convention.

mcrthy1 Senator Joe McCarthy rails against communism.

MLdream ...I have a Dream...

MLKing Martin Luther King, Civil Rights March, Washington, DC.

moonlnd Astronaut Neil Armstrong speaks as he becomes the first human to step on the moon.

nixon1 Richard Dick M. Nixon defends himself.

nixon2 President Nixon announces the end of the Vietnam War.

nixon3 President Nixon claims that he is not a crook.

olinrt1 Oliver North provides a classic Oli response to a question, do you believe him?

reagan1 Ronald Reagan warns against deficit spending.

reagnpo President Reagan echos the words of a poet/bullfighter and explains what it is like to be a politician.

rfkfrmlk Robert Kennedy, in a campaign address, mourns the loss Martin Luther King Jr. with a poem.

rosvlt1 President Roosevelt declares war.

sputnk1 The Soviet Union announces it has launched the first satellite.

steinm1 Gloria Steinem explains her vision of humanism.