SL: Hello and welcome to WBBJ, and Happy New Years. Today we are doing a special broadcast on all the imporant events that happend in the roarings 20's. Frist we will be hearing from Sydney with the national news!
Sl: Good afternoon, the first thing we will be talking about is woman having rights. For a while woman and have not been able to do anything except all the house work. We didn't evan have a right to speak or disagree to a man's saying out in public, but now that woman are able to vote we will be able to speak our mind in public and be able to have jobs that won't have to do with house work. We will finally be able to get out of the house by ourselves. The next topic we will be talking about is Jazz the living music!
Jazz the new music of the future has taken a lead in life. Jazz was how people from different race were able to put all there hatered behind them and enjoy themselves together. Breaking news radio station KDKA is the first commercial radio station. It started out side of Pittsbergh.
and now a word from our sponcers
BB: (Model T is the car for me)
sold for $850 (Tin Lizzie)
BB: Now we will be interviewing Charles Lindbergh about his flight in 1927 across the Atlantic Ocean.
B: Hello Charles and welcome to our special show of the roarin '20's. I will be interviewing you.
L: It is a pleasure to be here, and i would love to answer some questions.
B: Great, first question is what motivated you to want to fly over the Atlantic Ocean?
L:Well, there was a wealthy hotel owner who was offering a prize of $25,000 to the first person to get across.
B: Wow!Did anyone else try to fly across?
L: Yes, competition got very fierce. A man named Richard Byrd tried flying across but crashed and broke his wrist. Others died while trying to get across
B: Oh my gosh! Thats a surprise. What date did you set off across the ocean?
L: May 20th 1927 8:00am! I willnever forget that day.
B: I'm sure you won't!What was the name of your plane and where were you flying to.
L: My little plane's name was Spirit of St. Louis,and i was headed for France. (around the outskirts of Paris) at Le Bourget Airfield.
B: what a great name. How many hours were you in the plane?
L:A long 33 1/2 hours with no one to talk to because i flew alone.
B: I can imagine how boring that must have been. I also heard you returned home a hero.
L: Yes, it was very different. People called me nicknames like "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle."
B: Cool names. Thanks for coming today Charles!
L: My pleasure. It was great talking to you.
LC: This is Lily Carter with you're politics report. In the 1920 election we got President Warren G. Harding and Vice President Calvin Cooladge. Then in 1923 he died and Calvin Cooladge was sworn into office. Then he won the 1924 election. Then we had President Herbert Hoover in 1928. Now, lets talk more about Calvin Cooladge. He was a good president. But, according to some, he was the most negative and remote and the most accessible. He was bad to some though. Now Herbert Hoover. He has not really done much but I think he will be great. This decade has been a great one for politics. What with the elections and the Stock Market Crash. I can't wait for the 30s. And now a word from our sponcer.
LC: Rice Krispies. The best way to start your day. "Snap, krakle, pop. Rice Krispies."
ST: This is Mara Beth Alen with your sports and entertainment. First we will remember the legends of our truly great baseball teams and players. Everyones favorite George Herman Ruth, fondly known as "Babe" and the "Sultan of Swat". did great things all through this decade. He made baseball a hitters sport when he set the new hitting record of 60 homeruns and 714 runs in '27. And of course we all remeber the famouse bellyache heard round the world. Also the Chicago American Giants won 3 consecutive NNL pennants. Then there is the Negro National League who's first game was played on May of 1920. With Sachel Paige and Cool Papa Bell on board a swingin season was had by all.
We can all remember baseball from way back when but some sports came into play during the 1920s that you might not have known about before. Football, boxing, tennis, and basketball our all new national sports. These games swept the national and are now attractive and fun.
Basketball started off small and now with the help of Abe Superstein traveling African American basketball teams our tralveling into all states. Fans pour into the statuims and barns to see Harlem Globe Trotter and his teammates play head on with other teams of the 20's.
10 years ago no one would think about stepping onto a tennis court to play a fun or competative game. Now with William Tiden and Helen Wills reaching for the gold we are right on the ball with this new sport. Same with swimming we lap up this new sport like honey and bees. In 1926 Swimming took a dramatic turn when Gertrude Ederle, only 19, became the first women to swim the English Channel.
Now for entertainment. This decade has been filled with exciting new adventures in the film buisness. In 1927 movies talked with the first talkie, The Jazz Singer staring Al Jolson, by Warner Brothers. In 28 Walt Disney introduced Steamboat Willie and Mickey Mouse who stared in film history as the first animated sound film. New musicians like George Gershwin and Araron Copland started making music and writers like Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and E. Scott Fitgerald started writing up a storm. Artists Mary Cassatt, Grant Wood, Thomas Benton, and Duke Ellington Hart all had their big brake during this great decade. The Harlem Renaissance sprouted up out of ordinary old Harlem with Jazz players like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. New Orleans Jazz sprang to life during these few years. Nickelodeans for 5 cents sprang to life on the stage and famouse Westerns with actors like John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and Henry Fonda round up the money. This has Been the Jazz age and the age of the talkie. Now signing off, this is Mara Beth Alen remembering the sports and entertain of our lives.
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