The University of Texas at Austin cracked open the vault, and black & white interviews full of communists, Union leaders, and Parliament Lights came tumbling out.

The Mike Wallace Interview ran from 1957 - 60, and during that time, Wallace asked sharp, intelligently researched questions of the World’s most compelling personalities. Online for the first time are 65 of these interviews, transferred from kinescope - bootlegging an old monitor with 16mm film.

Watch these episodes because the American time capsule is amazing: the cigarette commercials use words like ’smooth’ and ‘refreshing’, the ideas are macho, and EVERYBODY talks about God and the Atomic bomb.

Highlights:

Salvador Dali - Surrealist Painter and 4th coolest dude ever

Frank Lloyd Wright - The architect

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

Ralph Lapp - Scientist who helped develop the Atomic bomb

Commando Kelly - Medal of Honor, WWII

Alexander de Seversky - WWI Russian fighter ace, served as consultant to US Gov & revolutionized aerial warfare in WWII

Kissinger - silly voice

Watch them all when over the UT website. I read about this on Good.