"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– America The Violent-1969 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Perhaps not as bad as it is now, but violence seems to be just as integral a part of American society as the automobile. The question has…
– CBS Radio – The World This Week – Week ending May 19, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A rather violent week, the one ending May 19th, 1974. Capturing the majority of attention (at least in the U.S.)…
– January 19, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 19, 1987 – The Iran-Iraq War was in the news this day. With reports that Iranian troops were making advances towards the southern Iraqi…
– Nuremberg Trial report – Mutual News – December 13, 1945 – December 1945 marked the continuation of one of the most famous trials in modern history.Starting in November, the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial assembled high ranking and influential members of…
– MBS – Martin Dies Address – October 27, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In the years following World War 1, there had been the threat of a takeover or violent revolution in America from one extremist group…
October 20, 1957 – NBC Radio News: Algeria Aflame – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 20,1957 – The latest in a struggle for independence which began in 1954. The French colonial nation in Africa, part of that growing number…
September 13, 2001 – National Public Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 13, 2001 – While we were still reeling in shock and devastation over the events from two days earlier, the task of search, rescue, removal…
Almost a year since the end of World War 2 – on this July 26, 1946, it was about adjustment, change and justice. Reports from Nuremberg, where the trial of the former Nazi hierarchy was heading into its final…
– BBC Radio 4/5 Live – July 5, 2005 – reports/bulletins – BBC Radio – Terror visited London, this July 7th in 2005. At first, sketchy reports and tentative explanations of “huge power surges”. But as news emerged by eyewitnesses…
April 19, 1993 – News regarding the standoff in Waco and the outcome – Bulletins and press conferences – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – April 19, 1993 was a day that ending considerably different than it started. It all had…