"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
News on this March 14th in 1948 came by way of commentary on the Marshall Plan for reconstruction of Europe. Branded by some as an unwarranted blank check to the former European allies with no obligation to pay back, while…
– CBS World News Roundup – November 3, 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Berlin and Capitol Hill: For all intents and purposes, the start of a historic week, this November 3rd in 1989. Starting with the showdown on…
– Henry Wallace Campaign Address – October 4, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October of 1948, aside from everything else going on in the world, was also a Presidential campaign month. The Democrats had Harry Truman running for…
ABC Radio: Baukhage Talking – news for October 3, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A nervous October day in 1949. News of China – strikes dragging on, news of a creeping paranoia over Communists, news of Capitol Hill gamesmanship.…
– BBC Radio 4 Today Program – News Reports – November 22 – December 5, 2004 – BBC Radio 4 – Radio Ukraine – News and Special Broadcast (In Russian) – November 25, 2004 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection –…
– CBS Radio – Edward R. Murrow News With Don Hollenbeck – July 10, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 10, 1951 was an interesting day – not so much for what it represented in the present,…
And a year to the day after the “official” VE Day end to the War in Europe, the creeping Cold War was making its presence known on this May 8th in 1946. As Europe continued to dig itself out of…
– News for January 26, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Wartime News for this day in 1944 was about American attempts at brokering a deal between the Russians and the Poles. Seems now that the Germans had been…
– News for December 14, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1981 had to do with the growing protest movement in Poland known as Solidarity. Begun as a Dock Workers strike in the Port…
Report From The San Francisco Conference – June 16, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. With the San Francisco Conference just days away from closing, a charter was being drawn up for adoption, a new name was given and…