This page of my blog will list any supporting materials that were used during my audio project.
Audio Samples
JFK Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJWzalkpSPo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOhF5U8CsJM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE-TCzIHrLI
Malcolm X Movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9AmuYqjRyg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENHP89mLWOY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkJL_32nmqc
George Lincoln Rockwell Movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21BpgcT23Vs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1tUFx_StSo
Martin Luther King, Jr. Movement
Narration Scripts
JFK
John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president of the United States on January the 20th, 1961.
Kennedy was a member of the Democratic Party and during his election campaign his domestic policy centred on the civil rights issue.
Kennedy verbally supported racial integration and his proposals became part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlawed discrimination based on a race and colour. It was also responsible for ending racial segregation in schools and public accommodations.
On the 22nd of November 1963 at 12.30pm John F. Kennedy was assassinated on the streets of Dallas.
Half an hour later the president was announced dead in the emergency room of Parkland Hospital.
John F. Kennedy played a pivotal role in the African-American Civil Rights campaign and was a great supporter of the movement.
His death, one of the most infamous events in American history, was not the only assassination of a political figure in the 1960’s.
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim Minister and human-rights activist who in 1963, at the time when JFK was assassinated, was a member of the Nation of Islam.
When asked to comment on the death of JFK, Malcolm X replied that it was a case of ‘chickens coming home to roost’.
Malcolm X became a very controversial figure during the American civil rights movement as he preached race separation as opposed to integration.
He believed in separation and that blacks should live separate from whites in the USA.
In March 1964, Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam and planned to organise a Black Nationalist organisation.
In Malcolm X’s speech ‘The Ballot or the Bullet’ he advised African-Americans that if the government continued to prevent them from attaining full-equality, it may be necessary for them to take up arms.
On February the 21st 1965, whilst preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan, Malcolm X was shot in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun and then fired at with semi-automatic handguns.
He was pronounced dead at 3.30pm that same day.
The eulogy at his funeral was delivered by Ossie Davis who was a fellow civil rights activist and he described Malcom X as ‘our shining black prince’.
Malcolm X is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential African-Americans in history.
George Lincoln Rockwell
George Lincoln Rockwell was the founder of the American Nazi Party which was a political organisation that began in 1959.
During the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s, Rockwell assisted the Ku Klux Klan for a short time before soon believing that their beliefs were stuck in the past.
After hearing the phrase ‘Black Power’ during a debate in 1966, Rockwell altered the phrase to ‘White Power’ which later became the name of his party’s newspaper.
Rockwell’s principal message was ‘racial separation’ and his beliefs came from the Nazi philosophy that had originated in Germany during World War 2.
On August the 25th in 1967, Rockwell was leaving a shopping centre in Virginia when he was shot twice by a sniper.
A coroner pronounced him dead at the scene.
George Lincoln Rockwell was an extremely controversial figure during the civil rights movement and believed all black people should be deported to Africa. He was regarded as the ‘American Hitler’.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a civil rights activist and a leader of the movement in the 1960s.
King organised many protests that attracted national attention, he was a firm believer in a non-violent approach to end segregation in the south.
In 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln memorial, King delivered a public speech to over 250,000 civil rights supporters.
King predicted a day when the promise of freedom and equality for all would become a reality in America.
A few years later in April 1968, King was stood on a balcony at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee when he was shot dead.
Martin Luther King, Jr. believed in a united America and that segregation and discrimination could be eradicated. King remains one of the most important figures of the civil rights movement during the 1960s.
Budget
Real Budget (Based on a duration of 7 days)
Cost of using Sound Theatre at the University of Lincoln = £350 per day (discounted rate on the basis of 7 days agreed with Geoff Thompson )
Studio Engineer = £30 per day
Narrator/Voice over artist = £20 per hour
Total = £420
Actual Budget
Crisps = 60p
Sandwiches = £2.40
Water = 80p
Total = £3.80