December 1968... a New President and Faster Telegram delivery

KUAF | By Kyle Kellams

Published December 6, 2021 at 3:09 PM CST

This week's archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History take us back to December, 1968. We hear Arkansas' Democrats consider what the new president, Republican Richard Nixon, might do and learn how we could send telegrams faster.

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