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This week on From the Vault, we cel­e­brate the 50th anniver­sary of 1968, a year in which a rad­i­cal wave crashed across the globe, chang­ing the world and its peo­ple polit­i­cal­ly, social­ly, and cul­tur­al­ly. Wars, march­es, elec­tions, assas­si­na­tions, human rights, civ­il rights, women’s rights, the explo­sion of con­scious­ness and cre­ativ­i­ty – no event took place in iso­la­tion; the Viet­nam War ducked and wove through 1968, deposit­ing destruc­tion and ignit­ing defi­ance against injus­tice; stu­dents world­wide took to the streets to not only speak out against social ills in their own land – but also in sup­port of their inter­na­tion­al brethren; civ­il rights cam­paign­ers spoke in uni­ty about the need for equal rights and respect; and a new bat­tle – the war of words – is penned amidst the tide of change brought to artists strug­gling to com­pre­hend and express the social and polit­i­cal upheaval sur­round­ing them. And Paci­fi­ca Radio was there to cap­ture it all. We’ll hear voic­es from 1968 that include H. Rap Brown, Mar­tin Luther King, Jr., Muham­mad Ali, and Ray Brad­bury, among others.

From the Vault is pre­sent­ed as part of the Paci­fi­ca Radio Archives Preser­va­tion and Access Project, fund­ed in part by an award from the GRAM­MY Foun­da­tion and the Nation­al His­tor­i­cal Pub­li­ca­tions and Records Com­mis­sion at the Nation­al Archives and Records Admin­is­tra­tion, and past grants from the Nation­al Endow­ment for the Arts, the Ford Foun­da­tion, and the Amer­i­can Archive fund­ed by the Cor­po­ra­tion for Pub­lic Broad­cast­ing, along with the gen­er­ous sup­port of Paci­fi­ca Radio Lis­ten­ers. We also thank our part­ners and col­lab­o­ra­tors at the Pop-Up Archive, Ama­ra, Oth­er Minds Archives, George Blood Audio, and the Cal­i­for­nia Audio Visu­al Preser­va­tion Project.

The From the Vault theme music was writ­ten and per­formed by Nan­cy Sanchez and Gina Recamier.