I heard snippets of the same program while driving to my
daughter's school this morning....they interviewed staff at the Smithsonian's
American Folklife Center, who when pondering how to respond to and document the
September 11 attacks, remembered that Alan Lomax had taken his recorder to the
streets of New York (?) on the afternoon of December 7, 1941, interviewing
people as to their reactions to the attack on Pearl Harbor. They played a
segment from one such interview, as well as an interview done in the same
fashion regarding the September 11 attack. They also interviewed a
professor at Sonoma State University in California, who analyzed the language
people used to describe the September 11 attacks.
Fascinating story...wish I could've heard the whole
segment.
Brad Bauer
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum
210 Parkside Drive, Box 488
West Branch, IA 52358
>>> Richard Pearce-Moses <rpm9@MINDSPRING.COM> 10/04/01 07:53AM >>> I heard snippets of a story on Morning Edition this morning about an
archivist in Hawaii who grabbed a tape recorder and interviewed people right
after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Thought some of you would be interested
in the story, given recent discussion about archivists' response to the
September 11 events.
Checked the NPR Website, but the stories
won't be available 'til after noon today. Check
-- Richard Pearce-Moses
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