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George Meany – AFofL-CIO President – Labor Day Message – 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A little background on George Meany if you aren’t already familiar: William George Meany (August 16, 1894 – January 10, 1980) was an American labor union leader for 57 years. He was the...
September 3, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 3, 1987 – The Iran-Iraq War was heating up again – with Iraqis mounting reprisals against Iranian attacks on shipping. This day it was a Panamanian-registered tanker, hit and sunk by Iraqi missiles, killing two...
RNE Radio 3 – Nixon in session – Madrid – June 27, 2018 – RNE Radio 3 – Nixon in session tonight. No – not to be confused with a mysterious resurrection of Richard Nixon, but one of the more interesting bands to come out of the Indie scene in...
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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