"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– UN Signing of Treaty With Japan – Sepetember 8, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Six years, almost to the day of the surrender signing between Japan and the Allies, ending hostilities in World War 2. The Treaty…
May 19, 1989 – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 19, 1989 – a day of increased tensions and confrontation. Students gathered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to protest the hardline regime and push for dramatic political…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS News – China After Mao – September 10, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection For those of you who don’t know who Chairman Mao was (and for those of you…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Hourly News – June 11, 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this June 11th in 1989 had much to do with the continuing crackdown in China of dissidents,…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Tiananmen Square – Timeline – May-June 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Twenty-five years ago, all eyes were on Beijing and the unfolding events that, at first seemed wildly optimistic and…
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Click on the link here for Audio Player: Seemingly no end to scandal where Capitol Hill is concerned. For this May 28th in 1989 the specter of Ethics reared its inquiring head and its victims were the House Speaker…