Help with a speech on Walt Disney? :)

[coolshannie]

Does anybody know of any good articles or books that talk about how Walt Disney is an important figure in history or even in our society today? I have a few sources but I want to make sure that there isn't anything better out there. I'm looking more away from his biographies, but if you had a good passage from any of them and care to share I'd love to see if you found something I didn't!

The topic itself is " The most important person you could ever meet is " Walt Disney." And I am explaining why that is...

My problem now is that the sources I choose have to be proven credible. I have to explain why the source is credible. Such as ' This person is a best selling author ' or something along those lines. I can talk about Disney and Walt Disney for hours which was why i chose this topic to be quite honest. It's the first speech of the semester and I thought choosing a topic I was comfortable with would make it less nerve-racking to talk about.

Anyways, I have a few sources I have compiled that are credible, but if I can find better I'd rather use better. So if you have any wonderful Walt Disney information from very credible sources please share.

Thanks!

 

[Razor Roman]

you might want to look at some information on stuff like the '64 World's Fair? Obviously technologial advances in audio animatronics, etc... but also on the genius of Disney's urban planning sense (Robert Moses perhaps has some quotes?) and the whole United Nations/Bringing the World together "it's a small world" type thing? I'm sure there's probably quotes from Richard Nixon about Walt, and maybe when he died President Lyndon Johnson released a statement?

 

[Razor Roman]

I just did a quick search, and it looks like in 1964 Lyndon Johnson gave Walt Disney the Medal of Freedom (highest civlian honor in the US). The LBJ Library's website does not contain the speech from that event, but I am sure LBJ gave him some glowing praise that day. You might want to contact the LBJ Presidential library - perhaps they can forward you a copy of his remarks from that day?

johnson.library@nara.gov is the email address on the website.