10 episodes
Madison in the Sixties Stu Levitan
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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A look at the people and events in Madison's past that helped shape the city of today.
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Madison, 1960 – Law and Disorder
A new police chief .. a cop consorts with a divorcee .. a series of brazen burglaries … and a political odd couple to lead the Police and Fire Commission.
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Madison, 1967 – Law and Disorder
A cop with problems … a secretive police chief … and Ginger Rodgers! The police beat goes on, in 1967 Madison.
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Madison, 1967 – A big year for the Equal Opportunities Commissio...
Madison, 1967. A big year for the Madison Equal Opportunities Commission. It wins passage of an historic expansion of the fair housing ordinance. It holds riveting public hearings into the state of police-community relations, and issues a disturbing report. But it loses its chair, Rev. James C. Wright, off for a planned two years at a seminary in Ilinois.
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Best of Madison History Podcast, vol. 2
A tragic night in Badger sports … Madison mourns President Kennedy … and hopscotching the decade for headlines.
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Best of Madison History Podcast, vol. 1
Muhammad Ali comes to town, and Bobby Knight turns us down .. two dancing nudes are bad news for the UW … and a block party becomes a three-night riot.
Customer Reviews
The Past Isn't Dead. It Isn't Even Past
A lot of this news is hilarious. And a lot of it is ripped straight from 2021 in a sense. Wondering about cops, burglaries, city council scuttlebutt?
These are bite sized bits of deadpan 60s news. I find it extremely engaging. Helpful pre-reading would be something like David Maraniss' They Marched into Sunlight.
Stu's delivery is dramatic, breathless and a little like the novelty DJ Doctor Demento. It grows on you and adds to the otherworldlyness of this time machine.
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