Audio/Video Gallery

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Visit fiftiesweb.com where you can listen to midi-file versions of well-known tunes from the Fifties, including the theme from American Bandstand.

Hey you hep cats, visit Marvs Oldies, dedicated to Fifties and early Sixties 45 RPM record collecting. Featuring hard-to-ind doo-wop and rockabilly "singles", plus related nostalgia.

Sen. Joseph McCarthy's 1954 address to the Chicago Irish Fellowship Club is an example of his campaign against communists, which fed what become a witch hunt and eventually lead to his own censure

Yankees manager Casey Stengel testifies before a Senate subcommittee on the question of anti-trust and "the baseball business" in 1958, in his own inimitable way.


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