Week of September 18th

Take a look back at this week in History

Episode Transcript

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And now I look back at thisweek in history on iHeartRadio. This week
in nineteen fifty seven, under escortfrom the US Army's one hundred first Airborne
Division, nine black students and areall white Central High School in Little Rock,
Arkansas. Three weeks earlier, theArkansas governor had surrounded the school with
National Guard troops to prevent its FederalCourt ordered racial integration. After a tenth

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standoff, President Eisenhower federalized the ArkansasNational Guard and send one thousand Army paratroopers
to Little Rock to enforce the courtorder. This week in nineteen sixty four,
President Lyndon B. Johnson receives aspecial report called the Warren Commission Report
on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It concluded that Oswald had
acted alone and that the Secret Servicehad made poor preparations for JFK's visit to

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Dallas and had failed to sufficiently protecthim. This Week in nineteen seventy three,
and a highly publicized battle of thesex's tennis match, top women's player
twenty nine year old Billy Jean Kingbeats fifty five year old Bobby Riggs,
a former number one ranked men's playerand a self proclaimed male chauvinist. He
had boasted that women were inferior andthat they couldn't handle the pressure of the

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game, and that even at hisage, he could beat any female player.
And this week. In nineteen ninetysix, the world's nuclear powers signed
a treaty to end all testing anddevelopment of nuclear weapons. The Comprehensive Nuclear
Test Band Treaty prohibited quote any nuclearweapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion
end quote. President Bill Clinton wasthe first world leader to sign the treaty,

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which eventually was signed by more thanone hundred eighty nations. And that's
what happened. Thanks for listening toThis Week in History on iHeartRadio.