– CBS Radio – The World This Week – May 11, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. May 11th came on a Sunday in 1975. And as is always the case, Sunday is reserved for recapping the main news stories of the week. The week ending May 11th in
Hard to imagine 56 years ago the conversation regarding the Vietnam War took an abrupt turn – but the abrupt turn was in a violent way. Prior to this, the Anti-War movement had been largely peaceful, and growing in numbers. The straw came in the form of a U.S. led
A day of many contrasts on October 7, 1967. Starting with Vietnam. In less than a week President Johnson’s latest defense of his prosecution of the war in Vietnam has been thoroughly undermined. His San Antonio speech was followed by a week in which: -American casualties in Vietnam passed the
America: The Vision And The Violence – NBC Radio – March 3, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. With the latest act of horrific violence, the conversation about hate, racism and violence in our society bubbles to the surface, like an open sore, once again. The conversation is as old
– CBS World News Roundup – July 22, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this July 22nd in 1965, news was about the escalating War in Vietnam and the escalating violence in Alabama. In Washington, talks were entering their third day over the future of the Vietnam War.
– CBS Radio News – Johnson Addresses United Nations – June 25, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In what is shaping up to being a very busy week in history, June 26th marks the anniversary of the first meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco. June 26th
Since most mainstream media will be focusing on the end of the War in Europe in 1945, May 7th also marks another anniversary; one that had far-reaching consequences during the years and decades directly following it. The fall of the French Army garrison at Dien Bien Phu. A battle which
– First Tuesday: Domestic Spying – How Much Do They Know About You? – Dec. 1, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise to many that our preoccupation with Domestic spying has been with us for a very long time. In 1970 it was
Reading reports on what the American Forces Radio service was like during the Vietnam War, and also reading reports of clandestine stations popping up playing what the troops really wanted to hear via taped letters from home containing music the Army had banned during the time, I was curious what
Become a Patron! While the much-fabled Woodstock Festival was getting underway for its first day, the world was spinning wildly away as usual on this August 15th in 1969. From Northern Ireland, Catholic and Protestant rioting was raging on. British troops were being reinforced and rioting was spreading rapidly. It
