Tape of Martin Luther King Jr. Ariz. Speech Found
Source: ABC News
Mary Scanlon had no idea a $3 purchase from a Goodwill store in Phoenix would turn out to
be a rare link to the civil rights movement's most revered leader.
Last April, Scanlon was at the thrift store when she spotted a pile of 35 vintage reel-to-reel tapes,
including one labeled with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s name. Despite the moldy and torn packaging,
she snapped up all of them.
"I didn't really necessarily have any expectation that this tape would be rare," Scanlon said.
Arizona State University archivists have found that tape is the only known recording of speeches the
slain civil rights leader gave at ASU and at a Phoenix church in June 1964. The hour-long audio has
since been digitized and is now available for listening on ASU's website through June 30.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tape-martin-luther-king-jr-ariz-speech-found-22318382
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olddad56
(5,732 posts)hope a lot of people in AZ listen to the speech.
Ptah
(33,034 posts)Pterodactyl
(1,687 posts)mimi85
(1,805 posts)even though I live in SoCal, so can't agree with either one. Very cool that she donated the tape(s) to the school instead of throwing it on ebay.
marshall
(6,665 posts)They keep a tight fist on everything.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I need to start living at thrift stores and garage sales and flea markets so I can find my 50-year-old historic recordings and million-dollar works of art...
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)So much fits right in to todays current affairs.