Dick Clark's American Bandstand
Dick Clark Hosting American
Bandstand; Dick Clark in Record Library
Photographs
By: Associated Press
Date: June 30, 1958; February 3, 1959
Source: Dick Clark Hosting American Bandstand. June 30, 1958; Dick Clark in Record Library. February 3, 1959. AP/Wide World Photos. Available online at http://www.apwideworld.com (accessed March 24, 2003).
Introduction
In the 1950s, television became America's first truly national mass medium. Newspapers were the first major media in the United States, but a single newspaper did not reach all of America. Radio was more of a mass medium, as all of America could hear a broadcast at one time, but it lacked the impact of visual information. Movies combined sound and pictures, but people could not afford to go to the movies every day. Unlike its media predecessors, TV could...
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1950's Media Primary Sources
The 1950's: Primary Sources
