100 Greatest Box Set

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Description

The 100 greatest what? Why, the 100 greatest speeches, news stories, personalities, scandals and sports moments of the 20th and 21st centuries, all compiled in a 5-CD set that brings history home like no collection has done before! Just to list some of the tracks is to give a timeline of modern history-for speeches, you get Churchill's "Finest Hour," FDR's "Day of Infamy," Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" and much more. News stories include 3-Mile Island, Little Rock school integration, John Lennon's death, Pearl Harbor and more. Among the personalities profiled are Amelia Earhart, Clarence Darrow, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Lindbergh, Helen Keller, James Dean, Walt Disney and many others, while tops among the 100 greatest scandals are Alger Hiss, Clinton/Lewinsky, Enron, My Lai, the O.J. Simpson trial, the Watergate break-in and other tangled affairs. And sports fans will revel in Ali-Foreman, Fischer-Spassky, Hank Aaron's 715th, U.S. Hockey's 1980 Olympic triumph, Secretariat and more. 500 clips that record how our lives changed!

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Tracks

  • Disc 1
  • 1 1954 - a. Philip Randolph
  • 2 1968 - Richard M. Nixon
  • 3 1952
  • 4 1955
  • 5 Neutrality 1939
  • 6 1937
  • 7 1937
  • 8 Chicago 2008
  • 9 1946
  • 10 Convention 1992 - Bill Clinton
  • 11 Moon 1968 - Winston Churchill
  • 12 U.N. 1946 - Dean Acheson
  • 13 Egypt-Israel 1978
  • 14 Finest Hour 1940
  • 15 France 1940 - General Patton
  • 16 German Threat 1934 - Helen Gahagan Douglas
  • 17 Iron Curtain 1946
  • 18 1968 - John F. Kennedy
  • 19 1958 - Margaret Chase Smith
  • 20 Asia 1950 - Richard M. Nixon
  • 21 1963 - Ronald Reagan
  • 22 Truth and Reconciliation 1995 - Harry S. Truman
  • 23 1945
  • 24 Farewell 1951
  • 25 1939
  • 26 U.N. Opening 1945
  • 27 End of Korean War 1953
  • 28 Convention 1956
  • 29 Farewell 1961
  • 30 Inaugural 1933
  • 31 Inaugural 1937
  • 32 Day of Infamy 1941
  • 33 Lend-Lease 1941
  • 34 Inaugural 1974
  • 35 1945
  • 36 1945
  • 37 1917
  • 38 1964
  • 39 1893
  • 40 1936
  • 41 1948
  • 42 1960
  • 43 1948
  • 44 Convention 1932
  • 45 World's Fair 1939
  • 46 1938
  • 47 1935
  • 48 1988
  • 49 Candidacy Announcement 1960
  • 50 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
  • 51 Inaugural 1961
  • 52 United Nations 1961
  • 53 Convention 1976
  • 54 Nixon Debates 1960
  • 55 Congress 1994
  • 56 Kosovo 1999
  • 57 Civil Rights 1965
  • 58 Civil Rights Act 1964
  • 59 Declines Reelection 1968
  • 60 First Address 1963
  • 61 Prison Release 1990
  • 62 1950
  • 63 1984
  • 64 Marshall Plan 1947
  • 65 I Have a Dream 1963
  • 66 Mountaintop 1968
  • 67 Nobel Prize 1964
  • 68 1938
  • 69 War 1939
  • 70 1961
  • 71 Checkers Speech 1952
  • 72 China Visit 1972
  • 73 Concession 1962
  • 74 End of Vietnam War 1973
  • 75 Inaugural 1969
  • 76 Resignation 1974
  • 77 Madison Square Garden 1948
  • 78 Berlin Wall 1987
  • 79 Challenger 1986
  • 80 Inaugural 1981
  • 81 Iran-Contra 1986
  • 82 Shining City 1989
  • 83 Star Wars 1983
  • 84 Announces Candidacy 1968
  • 85 Addresses Congress 1975
  • 86 1972
  • 87 Harvard Address 1978
  • 88 RFK Eulogy 1968
  • 89 1909
  • 90 2007
  • 91 Nato 1949
  • 92 No Reelection 1952
  • 93 Opening of U.N. 1945
  • 94 1966
  • 95 Vietnam 1968
  • 96 1940
  • 97 Af of L 1939
  • 98 1908
  • 99 1923
  • 100 1912 - Woodrow Wilson
  • Disc 2
  • 1 3 Mile Island 1979
  • 2 9-11-01 - Frank Borman
  • 3 A-Bomb 1945
  • 4 Agnew Resigns 1973 - James F. Byrnes
  • 5 Allies in Berlin 1945
  • 6 Apollo-Soyuz 1975 - Jimmy Carter
  • 7 Babe Ruth 1947
  • 8 Berlin 1961 - Winston Churchill
  • 9 Berlin Airlift 1949
  • 10 Berlin Wall 1989
  • 11 Bhopal 1984 - Winston Churchill
  • 12 Chernobyl 1986
  • 13 China-U.N. 1971 - Winston Churchill
  • 14 Clinton-Lewinsky 1998
  • 15 Columbia Disaster 2003 - Coretta Scott King
  • 16 Columbine 1999
  • 17 Cuba 1962
  • 18 Czechoslovakia 1968
  • 19 D-Day 1944 - Sen. Abraham Ribicoff
  • 20 Desert Storm 1991
  • 21 Eichmann 1961 - Dean Rush
  • 22 Elvis 1977
  • 23 End of Vietnam 1975 - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
  • 24 Falklands 1982
  • 25 French Strike 1968 - Douglas MacArthur
  • 26 Friedan 1972