Ray bradbury (1975)

Ray Bradbury and Fahrenheit 451

By rkoreis
  • Ray Bradbury is born in Waukegan, IL.

    Ray Bradbury is born in Waukegan, IL.

  • KDKA

    KDKA

    KDKA, Pittsburgh, becomes the first commercially licensed radio station.

  • 33% of all homes have a radio.

  • Books are burned across Germany.

    Books are burned across Germany.

    Nazi Book Burning Across Germany, groups of university students burn up to 25,000 "un-German" books.
  • Television

    Television

    NBC begins regular commercial broadcasting.

  • 9% of U.S. households have a television.

  • Period: to

    McCarthyism

    Sen. Joseph McCarthy encourages libraries to destroy literature with controviersial ideas and issues lists of "pro-communist" books.

  • Bradbury writes to Richard Matheson.

    radio has contributed to our ‘growing a lack of attention’ simply because we tune in, see five minutes of one thing, ten minutes of other [sic], half an hour of this, an hour of that. This sort of hopscotching existence makes it almost impossible for people, myself included, to sit down and get into a novel again . . . Also, I want to re-emphasize the fact that we haven’t time to think anymore. http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/out-of-the-nursery-to-college-back-to-the-nursery
  • Fahrenheit 451 is published.

    Fahrenheit 451 is published.

  • 64.5% of U.S. households have televisions.

  • 87.1% of American households have a television.

  • Bradbury Interview

    Interview Clips