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Click on the link here for Audio Player: NBC News On The Hour – July 12, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this July 12th in 1960 was wild with contrasts. In Los Angeles, The 1960 Democratic Convention was underway with Senator John F. Kennedy looking very likely...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Crane Angels – In Concert at Villette Sonique Festival – May 17, 2013 Over to the Villette Sonique Festival in Paris, held this past May, for a concert by the Bordeaux-based Music Collective Crane Angels. I haven’t been able find out very...
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Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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