– President Truman addresses closing of San Francisco Conference – June 26, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 79 years ago today, on June 26, 1945 there was cause for celebration. A cautious one, because we were still in the middle of the war in the Pacific, but an
– NBC Radio – Bulletin regarding Allied entry into Cherbourg – June 25, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Nineteen days after the initial landings at Normandy, the Allies were still in the midst of battling their way to Paris. Some objectives were easily taken, while others were difficult.
– President Truman – Radio Address on the Taft-Hartley Bill- June 20, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 20, 1947 – on this day President Harry Truman was handed a bill, the Taft-Hartley Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, authored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred Hartley
Even five years since the end of World War 2, Europe was still in the process of rebuilding and finding its way. Now with the added attraction of Communism and what, in its most abstract, became a popularity contest between Democracy and Independence to Communism and a central government around
– Charlie Parker w/Woody Herman’s Third Herd – Kansas City – July 22, 1951 – Main-Man Records A historic rarity this week, recorded under less-than-ideal conditions, but grateful it exists at all. Woody Herman‘s Third Herd featuring a rare appearance by Charlie Parker, in a broadcast from the Municipal Arena
– NBC Radio – This Is Nora Drake – October 28, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – They always say there’s nothing like feeling better after hearing a story about someone’s life that’s worse than your own. During those dim-distant days of life before Internet – cell phones –
By all accounts, it was inches before America would be 100% involved in the War in Europe – Germany warned the U.S. that every ship carrying contraband for Britain will be sunk and charged that the United States is employing the Robin Moor sinking to build up war psychosis propaganda.
News for this day in 1941 – a view of the South Pacific as seen by American reporter Burt Silen in Manila. From his point of view there was no immediate danger of war coming from Japan, but Manila, as well as the rest of the Philippines and surrounding islands
– June 11, 1940 – News Of The World – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 11, 1940 – A fast moving day in the war. With German armies some 40 miles outside of Paris, and attacking French ports up and down the coast, visions of
Monopolies – Are They Bad For Business? – Chicago University Roundtable – April 1, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Monopolies – a word that’s not used much anymore. It’s what used it used to be called when one company bought out several smaller companies and emerged as the
