King Daevid MacKenzie

WCCO Minneapolis coverage of the JFK Assassination

kingdaevid — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:37:44 +0000

…here’s another stretch of JFK assassination coverage that has a distinctly unfortunate aspect to it: the initial local bulletin, which has interrupted an agricultural business program, hands back to that program just as that host is reading a commercial for a livestock slaughterhouse in the Minneapolis suburbs…

The Voice of America reports the assassination of President Kennedy

kingdaevid — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:34:23 +0000

…this may be the most fascinating individual piece of JFK Assassination footage I’ve yet encountered — the Voice of America, the U.S. Government’s own external propaganda arm, reports (in English and, briefly, Polish on this clip) on the assassination to a European audience. The English announcers try to make sense of the discrepancies between NBC’s coverage (NBC is still maintaining that JFK is alive but in very critical condition) and CBS’ (Walter Cronkite and Eddie Barker have announced strong rumours that Kennedy has died); the switch from the English bulletin to the scheduled Polish announcer comes just before NBC’s Bill Ryan announces that one of the priests who have just given the Last Rites of the Catholic Church to President Kennedy has told reporters that JFK is dead…

Echoes of a Century: The JFK Assassination

kingdaevid — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:27:02 +0000

…this is a new (and just slight) edit of my original collage of broadcast bulletins from the afternoon of November 22, 1963…

Out Front, 23 November 2009

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Out Front, 20 November 2009

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Out Front, 19 November 2009

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Out Front, 18 November 2009

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Out Front, 17 November 2009

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Out Front, 16 November 2009

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The Southwest Derby Report, 22 October 2009

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The Southwest Derby Report, 15 October 2009

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Studs Terkel converses with Phil Ochs, May 1971

kingdaevid — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:38:19 +0000

…many moons back I promised Jim Beaver that I’d put this thing up on my podcast page if I ever found it — and, just today, I did just that. It’s an mp3 of a KPFT Houston aircheck of two of my favourite wordsmiths, Studs Terkel and Phil Ochs, on Studs’ WFMT Chicago program in the Spring of 1971, after Phil’s Greatest Hits album (it was a gag title, containing all-new recordings and just packaged like an oldies compilation) took a huge crap in the record shops. The words these men left behind have gone a long way towards the preservation of whatever sanity I had left after my divorce …

The Southwest Derby Report, 1 October 2009

kingdaevid — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:53:58 +0000

Roller Derby piece submitted to “This Way Out”

kingdaevid — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:39:35 +0000

…I just sent this item for This Way Out to use in the next couple of weeks. How’d I do on it, guys?…

The Southwest Derby Report, 17 September 2009

kingdaevid — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:12:16 +0000

…including the results from the WFTDA Eastern Regionals and the Windy City Rollers taking Drew Barrymore out to the Ballgame at Wrigley Field Tuesday night…

EDIT: This file was deleted from the Podbean server on October 22, 2009. It can still be downloaded from radio4all should you still wish to listen to it…

The Southwest Derby Report, 9 September 2009

kingdaevid — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:47:54 +0000

…here ’tis, folks, the first of the new Derby series…

EDIT: This file was deleted from the Podbean server on October 22, 2009. It can still be downloaded from radio4all should you still wish to listen to it…

The new podcast schedule starts next week, August 31st

kingdaevid — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:01 +0000

…there’s a new production policy at KXCI effective today, and to accomodate them, I’ll be reworking the schedule to start next week. The week-in-review oughtta be starting this weekend, however. See ya then…

We have a new schedule here, folks…

kingdaevid — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:19:22 +0000

…and here it is: starting today, Out Front, the BGLT news headline capsule, goes Tuesday-through-Saturday; the weekly cinema and arts critique and commentary podcast will start next Tuesday; a weekly Roller Derby news podcast, The Southwestern Derby Report, starts this Friday; and, starting this upcoming weekend, my news and commentary podcast will become a Saturday week-in-review, kinda like what Drew Pearson and Alex Dreier used to do on radio during World War 2. Hope y’all like what you hear…

Gonna have to put the brakes on, folks…

kingdaevid — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:04:29 +0000

…the hard drive on my home computer went kablooey on me last night, so for the time being I’ll have to concentrate on getting that working again…hopefully, the hiatus will only be a few weekdays at the most…

Paul Harvey on the evening of 22 November 1963

kingdaevid — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:50:24 +0000

…this is probably my favourite piece of Paul Harvey’s work, a short commentary on the night of 22 November 1963, after President Kennedy’s assassination. You may want to note how Harvey’s closing comments seem to mirror Chet Huntley’s commentary on that night’s Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC-TV. And, for those of you in Texas and Oklahoma confused by the station identification of WBAP as being in Dallas on 570 kHz, WBAP and WFAA Radio (the latter of which is now KLIF, itself a station unrelated to the original KLIF on 1190) had been locked into a confusing FCC licensing arrangement that, by 1963, dictated that the two stations would shift frequencies, networks, cities of license and transmitting power – ABC in Dallas on 570 with 5000 watts, and NBC in Fort Worth on 820 with 50,000 watts – several times a day. Eventually, everyone involved grew so tired of the shifting, which led to a lot of announcers’ gaffes over the years, that in 1970 WBAP finally paid WFAA $3,500,000 to stay on the weaker 570 with ABC while they kept the stronger 820 with NBC. Of course, in te years since then, WFAA Radio was sold by the Dallas Morning News, while NBC’s radio network evaporated into oblivion and WBAP was eventually bought by ABC…

Paul Harvey mash-up, “The Bong”

kingdaevid — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:44:10 +0000

…today, I’m letting y’all have some pieces of the work of Paul Harvey that I haven’t seen floating around the Web as frequently as I’d thought they’d be this week. First being a mischievous little edit someone did of a Harveycast’s Bose Wave Radio commercial and a story (or two) about drug issues. Yes, it was naughty, but I still find it funny…

The Technicolour Breakfast, 9 April 2001, Part One

kingdaevid — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:38:12 +0000

…the Christmas greeting records by four certain Liverpudlians seems to have brought a huge group of new subscribers from Europe to this neck of the cyberwoods; for them, and anyone else who’s been wondering where these things went, here’s the repost of the lo-fidelity monaural aircheck of my Technicolour Breakfast radio show over WSUW in Whitewater, Wisconsin, the week before Spring Break 2001. (If, by any chance, one of the new fans of this podcast happens to be Program Director of Big L - http://www.bigl.co.uk/ - I am available should you have any thoughts of importing me to my ancestral land.) If any of my new European buddies would care to drop me a line at thevoiceoflabor@hotmail.com I would most certainly appreciate it. Same goes for whoever it is in Beijing who loves the Phil Ochs tune from a few months back, too…

The Technicolour Breakfast, 9 April 2001, Part Two

kingdaevid — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:24:56 +0000

…and, no, I never got around to sending this aircheck to Harry Shearer. I don’t think so, anyway. I’m still trying to find out if I have the VHS tape of the C-SPAN simulcast of Ralph Nader guesting on Chuck Harder’s radio show in the ’90s. I promised Harry that one and still can’t find the thing, and you know how I am about promises …

Merry Christmas to all…

kingdaevid — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:48:26 +0000

…I’m gonna devote the 12 Days of Christmas to writing a film script. So have a happy holiday, whichever it may be (I have the candles on my menorah ready to light) and make it out of 2009 alive …

The Beatles’ 1963 (First) Fan Club Christmas Record

kingdaevid — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:08:24 +0000

…throughout their collective recording career with EMI, The Beatles recorded and released special Christmas greeting records for the members of their official fan club. As one of my holiday offerings of this year, here’s the entire set of ‘em, all the way from 1963 (pre-Invasion of America, recorded in October, while JFK was still alive) to 1969 (wherein Ringo Starr contributes a plug for his movie with Peter Sellers, The Magic Christian — it turns out the plug was more imaginative than the movie)…

The Beatles’ 1964 Fan Club Christmas Record

kingdaevid — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:00:28 +0000

The Beatles’ 1965 Fan Club Christmas Record

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The Beatles’ 1966 Fan Club Christmas Record

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The Beatles’ 1967 Fan Club Christmas Record

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The Beatles’ 1968 Fan Club Christmas Record

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The Beatles’ 1969 Fan Club Christmas Record

kingdaevid — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:49:51 +0000

Echoes of a Century: Jean Shepherd over WOR New York, 25 November 1963

kingdaevid — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:25:30 +0000

…I’ll be posting a whole lot of stuff relating to the assassination of President Kennedy in the next few days; the 45th anniversary of that horrendous day comes up a week from now. However, I wanted to put this item up first, in advance of the rest of the material, since in it Shep makes quite a few comments about the nature of the U.S. Presidency and the electorate’s relationship to that office that still apply to said office and relationship nowadays…

Some changes are being made here

kingdaevid — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:18:33 +0000

…as you can see, I’ve junked all of the “Audible Scribblings” material. The way that KPHX and Nova M ripped me off, it’s best that I make a clean break from those two-faced punks. In the meanwhile, what will appear here are semi-daily posts that’ll only be up for a few days apiece relating to historical dates and such. Yet another reason to subscribe to the podcast rather than simply visit the page here …

Just a song one of my daughters wanted to hear

kingdaevid — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:08:03 +0000

…after all, I did name her after the tune …