Fifty years ago, NPR aired its first original broadcast.

The Morning News https://ift.tt/3nu7dZq

NPR as we now know it began with the May 3, 1971, debut of All Things Considered, in an episode covering, among other items: an anti-war protest, barbers shaving women's legs (due to "the decline in business with today's popularity of long hairstyles in men"), and addiction.

Here's the first segment from the show, and you can hear the rest over at NPR:

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