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US MBE ACC-MSS 019-2-5
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News/Current Events
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48 compact discs, 3 cassette tapes
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Biographical history
After studying broadcasting in college, Aaron Mintz spent twenty years working part time for local Western Massachusetts radio stations WMUA, WHAI, and WDRC, playing songs for a weekly program called “Rock and Roll Memory Time.” These programming blocks consisted of themed lineups, focusing on hits of the 1950s and 1960s with featured “sound bites” of current events, news, and pop culture facts of the time. To amass content for the show, Mintz developed a strong network of contacts among his fellow broadcasters and began collecting. Former classmates also contributed to his findings, and he was inspired to digitize many of these rare materials after discovering a keen community for radio content on the Internet.
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Scope and content
Material in this subseries comprises news broadcasts of contemporary events, civil rights programming, and human interest stories. See partial inventory in Series 3 for further information about episode titles contained on CDs.
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Items within the subseries are arranged alphanumerically according to identifying labels reflective of donor's own system of arrangement.
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General note
CDs numbered 1782-1799 and B379-B398 do not follow the standard alphanumeric ordering system of the rest of the items in this subseries. Both groups comprise Parts 1-38 of Radio Yesteryear's 1990 collection of coverage on the D-Day Invasion of World War II. For more information about content and original release information, refer to Aaron Mintz's partial inventory in Series 3.
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- Mintz, Aaron (Creator)