Let’s step back to 1968, the year Richard Nixon was elected into the White House, to the Pro-Nixon Rally at Madison Square Garden -- New York City, October 31st, 1968.

What Pacifica listeners heard - that the television audience did not hear - were the instructions to the delegates as if they were extras on a movie set. As you listen to the warm up speaker, realize that these were never meant to be heard by the viewers.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's speech "Domestic Urgency versus Military costs", delivered Feb 25, 1967 at an event for the newly formed Nation Institue in Los Angeles.

April 4, 1968 - Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. Three weeks later, his then-grieving widow Coretta Scott King delivered the following address in Central Park in NY on the 27th Peace March.

War, protests, political assassinations, be-ins, national elections, rock-and-roll, civil rights movements... 1968 was a pivotal year in American history -- and Pacifica was there to report on it, with perspectives and insights not offered elsewhere in radio journalism. Forty years later, the Pacifica Radio Archives is making available one-of-a-kind recordings that help illuminate this era in this "Revolution Rewind" special program.

As the 2008 DNC begins, take a moment to remember where we were four years ago. Here's a highlights mix of audio from Pacifica's coverage of the 2004 RNC and DNC, including DNC opening day mix, Wycleff Jean "If I Were President;" audio of Jesse Jackson and Michael Moore outside of the RNC, and more. Audio from the Pacifica Radio Archives.

Clip of Bobby Seale, Black Panther Party co-founder, in Chicago's Lincoln Park during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. This clip is from Pacifica Radio Archives special "A Passel of Pomp & A Circus of Circumstance", chronicling six decades of Pacifica's convention coverage.