<description>&lt;p&gt;An eyewitness account of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles, and the collective-guilt aftermath for America.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Cooke's eyewitness account of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy (1925-1968).

An eyewitness account of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles, and the collective-guilt aftermath for America.

Bobby Kennedy's assassination, 1968

<description>&lt;p&gt;The national mood begins to change over the Vietnam war - how America began to move from early indifference to the recognition of a nightmare.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

The human tragedy of the Vietnam War and its impact on Americans.

The national mood begins to change over the Vietnam war - how America began to move from early indifference to the recognition of a nightmare.

1000th letter - American reactions to Vietnam, 1968

<description>&lt;p&gt;Senator Jacob Javits' parking fine, Mayor Lindsay and the water commissioner, and a President Truman Christmas story.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Senator Jacob Javits' parking fine, and a President Truman Christmas story.

Senator Jacob Javits' parking fine, Mayor Lindsay and the water commissioner, and a President Truman Christmas story.

Christmas 1967

<description>&lt;p&gt;Democracy demonstrated - how the President of the United States had to make way for Mr Meyer Sugarman's wedding night.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

How President Lyndon B Johnson had to make way for a honeymoon. 

Democracy demonstrated - how the President of the United States had to make way for Mr Meyer Sugarman's wedding night.

Honeymoon with President Johnson, 1966	

<description>&lt;p&gt;The Watts riots in Los Angeles - were they an uprising by black Americans angry at their treatment or simply criminally motivated looting and violence?&lt;/p&gt;</description>

What caused the 1965 Los Angeles Watts riots and what do they say about America?

The Watts riots in Los Angeles - were they an uprising by black Americans angry at their treatment or simply criminally motivated looting and violence?

The LA Watts riots, 1965

The assassinations of John F Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy through to Vietnam and America’s shame at the My Lai massacre. A fascinating social, cultural and political history of American life, through the words of British-American journalist and broadcaster, Alistair Cooke (1908 – 2004).

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)

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