Month October 2014

Of Coke Cans And Long Dong Silver – The Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Hearings October 12, 1991 – Past Daily Weekend Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – NPR – Special Coverage – Senate Hearings – Anita Hill – October 12, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In what was thought to be a veritable walk-in-the-park, President Bush’s nomination…

Out Of One Frying Pan – October 10, 1945

Click on the link here for Audio Player – WOR News – October 10, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With the War over, and peace settling in, October 10th, 1945 was a day loaded with transition, and frustration, and…

The Navy Vs. The Air Force And The Annual Madness – October 9, 1949

Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio: Voices and Events – Week Ending October 9, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This week in 1949 ran the gamut from Capitol Hill intrigues to World Series mayhem.…

Jagwar Ma – Live at Bråvalla Festival, Norrköping 2014 – Nights At The Roundtable: Festival Edition

Click on the link here for Audio Player – Jagwar Ma – live at Bråvalla Festival, Norrköping Festival – June 26, 2014 – Sveriges Radio P3 Even though Summer festival season is over in Europe, there was such an avalanche…

The Ebola Scare Of 1995 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – Ebola fears in Canada – May 17, 1995 – NPR News Report – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With the news in recent weeks of the Ebola Virus, rearing its plague-ridden head…

War On A Holiday – Yom Kippur War 1973 – October 6-7, 1973

Click on the link here for Audio Player – Start of Arab-Israeli War (Yom Kippur War) – News reports – Oct. 6-7, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection 41-years ago, beginning on October 6th, 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a…

Hatfield And The North – In Session – 1974 – Nights At The Roundtable: Session Edition

Click on the link here for Audio Player – Hatfield And The North – BBC Session – March 1974 – BBC Radio 1 Further evidence the 70s produced a wide array of music which is still being discovered 40 years…