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America's past has always had trouble competing for attention with its present. But the Bicentennial celebration over-the-air enables more Americans to re-live and reflect on their history than any earlier commemoration.

A Bicentennial pageant, richly conceived and staged, has passed midpoint in its two-year progress on the CBS Television and Radio Networks. It's a pageant of great events, crucial issues, and extraordinary people.

"The American Parade," for example, is a series of prime time television specials that look back at the nation's triumphs and its problems. These include two views of civil rights: a biography of an early Black activist, Sojourner Truth, and "With All Deliberate Speed," documenting events which led up to the Supreme Court's 1954 decision ordering the integration of public schools...The celebration also presents the "Bicentennial Minutes," televised narrations of events that occurred two hundred years before, to the day..."Bicentennial Weekend Specials" on CBS Radio—thirty or more reports on each of twelve weekends, re-visiting America during the Revolution and recalling the nation's heritage and beliefs. The country's foremost philosopher-statesman is the subject of a full-length biography, "Benjamin Franklin," on television, and a twenty-six week presentation of "Poor Richard's Almanac" on radio. 

CBS chronicles two centuries with a leadership record in reporting the daily present. For past good and future promise, it's a story that evokes a nation's memory and will. The telling of it for the birthday of the world's oldest republic is best assurance for many happy returns.

LIGHT TWO HUNDRED CANDLES WITH THE TURN OF A DIAL

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