"The most successful environmental idea I ever had."
Explore Senator Gaylord Nelson's letter to Frank Stanton of CBS News to correct their inaccuracies about the origins of Earth Day.
In this 1971 letter to Frank Stanton, then president of CBS,
"The most successful environmental idea I ever had."
Explore Senator Gaylord Nelson's letter to Frank Stanton of CBS News to correct their inaccuracies about the origins of Earth Day.
In this 1971 letter to Frank Stanton, then president of CBS, Gaylord Nelson clarifies for CBS how he got the idea for Earth Day, his role in promoting it, and what had happened in the year since Earth Day 1970.
Nelson was compelled to write the letter to correct the facts and statements of CBS coverage leading up to Earth Day 1971. CBS news was typical of the time in angling its coverage toward student radicalism. The campus unrest of the late 1960s raised questions about the expansion from war to environmental activism: what tactics youthful activists would employ and the poss