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On the Park Street bus

Submitted by John August on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 22:00

I have spent a lifetime observing, conversing with and learning from the people who do the work every day that makes the world go 'round.

I was a city bus driver in the 1970s, running my route one evening headed south on Park Street in Madison, Wisconsin. As I cleared the big intersection of Park and Regent, I started down through a working-class neighborhood, and picked up several middle-aged women at successive stops, four in all.  They were in their 60s.  Each sat down in separate seats. Suddenly one said to the others, "We all know each other, we all work at the Bancroft Dairy"!  They laughed and indeed recognized each other.

The Real Deal: Walter Cronkite, Authenticity and Work in America

Submitted by John August on Fri, 07/17/2009 - 22:00
 
At 2:38 PM, EST, November 22, 1963, Cronkite reported to an anxious American people that President Kennedy had died. He was speechless for a few seconds in between the spontaneous remarks he had to convey to the millions of people watching on live television. It is remembered as one of the most important moments in the history of modern mass communication.