Radio Liberty program about the dedication of the Shevchenko monument in Washington DC. Item Info
Radio Liberty program about the dedication of the Shevchenko monument in Washington DC.
Introduction and "Zapovit" by the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus
00:00:00History of the construction of the monument
00:01:57Excerpt of speech by Dwight Eisenhower
00:03:34Description of the march from the Washington Monument to the Shevchenko Monument
00:05:05Conversation with participants from Toronto
00:05:57Conversations with members of the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization and the ODUM Ukrainian Democratic Youth Organization
00:07:14Conversation with members of the Ukrainian Youth Association
00:08:06Conversations at the site of the Shevchenko Monument
00:08:51Conversation with Volodymyr Dushnyk
00:09:06Conversation with motion picture camera operator Iurii Tamars'kyi
00:09:32Conversation with Oksana Savchur from Uruguay
00:10:00Conversation with the monument's sculptor Leonid Molodozhanyn and architect Radoslav Zhuk
00:10:16Conversation with Iaroslav Rudnyts'kyi
00:11:08The large numbers of youth at the dedication
00:11:58Description of the monument unveiling
00:13:32Ending of invocation by Metropolitan Ambrose Senyshyn
00:14:26Excerpt of speech by Roman Smal'-Stots'kyi
00:15:02Excerpt of speech by Dwight Eisenhower at the unveiling
00:16:40Lev Dobrians'kyi requests Eisenhower to unveil the monument
00:17:54Description of the conclusion of the unveiling ceremony
00:19:50Excerpt of benediction by Metropolitan Ioan Teodorovych
00:20:46Summary of American press coverage of the Shevchenko Monument dedication
00:22:42- Creator:
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Date Created:
- 1964
- Description:
- Radio Liberty program reporting on the 1964 dedication of the monument to Taras Shevchenko in Washington DC. Reporting and interview fragments by Mykola Francuzenko (using the pseudonym Oleksander Tereshchenko), speech fragments, and music clips by the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus. The program concluces with summary of American press coverage of the event.
- Subjects:
- Taras Shevchenko memorial (1964 : Mol, Leo) Shevchenko, Taras
- Source collection:
- Mykola Francuzenko papers
- Source Identifier:
- UHEC_MA_2014.4.1RL26
- Type:
- sound
- Format:
- audio/mp3
- Languages:
- Ukrainian
- Form:
- Radio programs
- Host:
- Francuzenko, Mykola
- Speaker:
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David) Dushnyk, Volodymyr Rudnyts'kyi, Iaroslav Senyshyn, Ambrose Teodorovych, Ivan, Metropolitan Smal'-Stotskyi, Roman
- Preferred Citation:
- "Radio Liberty program about the dedication of the Shevchenko monument in Washington DC.", Mykola Francuzenko papers (UHEC_MA_2014.4.1RL26), Ukrainian History and Education Center Archives
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