'It Was Just Thrilling': 2 NPR Founders Remember The First Days, 50 Years Ago
Listen • 43:22 Susan Stamberg co-hosted All Things Considered from 1972 until 1986 — she's the first woman to anchor a daily national news program in America. She is now an NPR special correspondent. On May 3, 1971, 20,000 demonstrators came to Washington, D.C., stopping traffic in the streets in a protest against the war in Vietnam. On that same day nearly 50 years ago, NPR, then a fledgling news organization, premiered a new afternoon show. In its first show, presented a 23-minute sound portrait of the day's protests and confrontations that was broadcast to stations...