It's a little hard to imagine this radio address is actually from 1948. The problems Progressive Party Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace discusses during this campaign talk are somewhat eerie in their similarities to our current situation.

Political corruption, the over-bearing influence of Wall Street and the Banking system over elected officials. The manufactured prices, the hysteria and the fear mongering - it's all there. Only it's 1948.

Henry Wallace was an ardent New Dealer and Secretary of Agriculture before becoming vice-President during FDR's third term. After FDR's death, Wallace broke with the party and clashed with Truman over domestic and foreign matters. Wallace was repeatedly smeared by both Democrats and Republicans as being pro-Communist, and the fact that he enjoyed a cordial relationship with Moscow probably didn't help matters any.

But he did speak about things that have come back to haunt us now.

So here, in its entirety, is Henry Wallace's Campaign address from July 29, 1948.

And keep reminding yourself of that as you're listening.

Amid fears the Republican Party of 1964 was taking a sharp turn to the right, with the rise in popularity of Barry Goldwater, and all indications pointing to his nomination as the Republican Presidential candidate, much attention was being paid on that election year to the outcome of the Republican Governor's Conference, being held in Cleveland Ohio in June, 1964.

And it was the current state of the Republican Party in 1964 that was the topic of conversation on this episode of Meet The Press, first aired on June 7, 1964.

Interviewed were the Chairman of the Conference, Kansas Governor John Anderson and Host of the Conference, Ohio Governor James Rhodes. A number of subjects were discussed - where candidate William Scranton figured in this picture, the Rockefeller wing of the Party - how other Governor's were feeling about the current climate.

Interesting sets of questions and interesting answers, as was always the case in this early incarnation of Meet The Press.

Here is that entire program.

Despite the fact that some ten million workers had virtually shut down France, and chaos was looming, the Peace talks between the U.S. and North Vietnam had stalled and the war was grinding on, all eyes and ears were on Los Angeles on this particular June 5th in 1968.

Shortly after midnight, amid a jubilant crowd and election returns that gave him a solid win in the California Primary, Presidential Candidate Robert Kennedy was gunned down by an assassin on his way from addressing campaign workers and well-wishers to a press conference at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Here is the now-famous on the scene report by Mutual Broadcasting's Andrew West, followed by continuous news from 7:30 to around 8:30 on the morning of June 5th.

The rest of the news that day seemed inconsequential by comparison. At the time of this news broadcast, there was still hope for recovery. The assassin was still a would-be and he was as yet unidentified, arraigned as only John Doe.

Imagine you're waking up on this morning, not knowing what happened (as so many did), and hearing the news for the first time.

News from KFWB in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968.