• History of Baseball: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi and http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jp/bball/early_1  
• Brown vs. Board of Education; 1953-1954http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-brown.html

• 1950s elections:http://www.loc.gov/rr/ElectronicResources/full_description.php?MainID=792   leads to: http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/election/index.php?nav_action=election&nav_subaction=overview&campaign_id=165
• 1950s Era NARA – Can order sound recordings http://www.archives.gov/research/voices-of-postwar.html:The Crucial Decade: Voices of the Postwar Era, 1945-1954
• Swanson TV Dinners Time line quickculture comparison:http://www.swansonmeals.com/50th/timeline/1950s.html 1957

1950s Television

• CBS Television Timeline: 1950s http://wwwimage.cbs.com/specials/cbs_75/timeline/1950.shtml
• STUDIO ONE, U.S. Anthology Drama, Studio One was one of the most significant U.S. anthology drama series during the 1950 http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/S/htmlS/studioone/studioone.htm:
• Television Interviews, 1951-1955 A Catalog of Longines Chronoscope Interviews in the National Archives     http://www.archives.gov/research/formats/tv-interviews-1951-to-1955.html:
• Winter 2001, Vol. 33, No. 4. Our Heritage in Documents

FDR's "Day of Infamy" Speech: Crafting a Call to Arms http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2001/winter/crafting-day-of-infamy-speech.html
• Producer/Director Gene Reynolds discusses his early work in TV http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2781304200127397111&q=Reginald+Rose&time=470000
• 1950: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Celebrate 10th Wedding Anniversary in NYC

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New York City

• Apartments in the East Harlem Slums
• Architecture and Design Building
• Woolworth Building: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/progress/jb_progress_dobson_2_e.html
• more on the Woolworth Building (acros the street from the jury room. Seen by Juror 3 out the window.)

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  What was it like to live in New York City in the 1950s?

  http://www.faqfarm.com/Q/What_was_it_like_to_live_in_New_York_City_in_the_1950s

   

  New York City, 1950s

  http://www.upress.umn.edu/sles/Chapter4/ch4-1.html. Immediately following World War II New York City emerged as an economic and cultural world center. Changes between 1945 and 1960 reflected the concentration of multinational corporate administration, finance and related services in the city.

   

  Race and Ethnicity on the Lower East Side in the 1950s.

  http://www.upress.umn.edu/sles/Chapter4/ch4-4.html

  Economic changes and urban renewal policies created poverty districts within the city. Within these districts, pocket of older residents and other newcomers resided.

   

  New York City subway 1951

  http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1951_b.jpg

  http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1951_b.jpg

   

  1955 Map of 3^rd Avenue El

  http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/calcagno-1955-3rdave.gif

  1952 Baltimore Orioles

  http://hades.shulermisra.org/cplhistory/teams/bal/1952.html stats

  http://hades.shulermisra.org/cplhistory/teams/bal/1952sched.html schedule

   

  1952 New York (A) Yankees

  http://hades.shulermisra.org/cplhistory/teams/nya/1952.html - stats

  http://hades.shulermisra.org/cplhistory/teams/nya/1952sched.html - schedule

   

  1954 Emmy Awards

  http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1954/1954emmy.htm

  Best Actor - Single Performance

  Fredric March - "Royal Family" - Best of Broadway


  Thomas Mitchell - "Good of His Soul" - Ford Theatre


  David Niven - "The Answer" - Four Star Playhouse


  Frank Lovejoy - "Double Indemnity" - Lux Video Theatre


  Fredric March - "A Christmas Carol" - Shower of Stars
 

  *Bob Cummings - "12 Angry Men" - Studio One

   

  Best Written Dramatic Material

  Climax - "An Error in Chemistry" - David Dortort


  Four Star Playhouse - "The Answer" - Leonard Freeman


  Medic - "White is the Color" - James Moser

  
Philco Television Playhouse - Paddy Chayefsky
 

  *Studio One - "12 Angry Men" - Reginald Rose

   

   

  Archive of American Television Interview with Gene Reynolds Part 2 of 11

  Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation

  28 min 32 sec - Oct 24, 2005

  http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22Reginald+Rose%22

   

Elevated Train: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/gsc.5a22569  

[Enter search term: "elevated train"; choose #7 New York, New York. Waiting for the Third Avenue elevated train in the "Fifties" at 8:30 a.m.

• New York City views. Looking south from N.E. corner 57th and 3rd Ave..
• Digital ID(intermediary roll film) gsc 5a22569 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/gsc.5a22569