Walter Cronkite, Johnny Cash, and Thomas Jefferson

TVC 741.2: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays a few more audio highlights of In Celebration of US, the day-long CBS special that aired on July 4, 1976, including Johnny Cash performing at the Pageant of Freedom festival in Washington, D.C.; coverage of the air show in St. Louis commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic in 1927; Charles Kuralt's profile of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson; and "Reflections of America," a music and spoken-word performance by violinist Isaac Stern. Audio courtesy Archival Television Audio. Image of Johnny Cash courtesy Facebook.