August 5, 1962 – Marilyn Monroe: Fame Is Fickle
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Category: 1950’s
August 3, 1951 – When Scandal Hit An Institution – West Point In Crisis
August 3, 1951 – CBS: Edward R. Murrow News With Don Hollenbeck – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 3, 1951 – Scandal was the word this day. News broke that some 90 Cadets at the prestigious West Point Military Academy had been given General Discharges over cheating on exams
July 31, 1950 – Ominous Day In Korea – Agenda Wrangling At The UN
– Edward R. Murrow and The News with Larry Lesueur – July 31, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – News for this day, 76 years ago, was about the ongoing war in Korea and the delicate maneuvering taking place at the United Nations at their temporary headquarters at Lake
Spinning Jazz On The Radio – 1959 – Past Daily Weekend Gallimaufry.
Spreading the message – passing the word- one Kilocycle at a time. KOMO-AM Seattle – Jazz Today – January 29, 1959. A taste of 50s Jazz tonight, via the disc-jockey program Jazz Today from KOMO-AM in Seattle for the evening of January 29,1959. Ever since Radio became the Medium for
A Question Of Air Superiority In War – 1950 – Past Daily Reference Room.
American Forum Of The Air – November 2, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. When Alexander P. de Seversky published Air Power: Key to Survival in 1950, the United States stood at the dawn of the Cold War and at the threshold of the nuclear age. A decorated Russian-born aviator,
Suburban Sprawl: Exodus From The City – 1972 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Suburban Sprawl – NBC Radio: Second Sunday – August 13, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s interesting how things change; how they go from one extreme to the other over time. In this radio documentary, produced in 1972, the issue is how this Suburban Sprawl has negatively impacted
“Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been . .?” – Guilt By Association – 1949 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
University of Chicago Roundtable – Guilt By Association – March 13, 1949 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Fingers of suspicion, guilt by association – all elements of the era known as The Red Scare. The fear of subversion, the fear that America was going to be
Jean Martinon And The French National Orchestra Play Music Of Florent Schmitt – 1957 – Past Daily Weekend
Florent Schmitt – Oriane et le Prince d’lamour – French National Orchestra – Jean Martinon, cond – ORTF 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Florent Schmitt this weekend. A prolific composer whose work was neglected for several decades after his death, but which has been receiving a revival in
What Inventions Have Benefitted Mankind Most? 1954 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
– NBC Radio – Conversation: What Inventions Have Benefitted Mankind Most? – Nov. 6, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seventy-two years ago there was no such thing as the Internet. Computers were massive and it never occurred to anyone in a million years that such a device could be
Turmoil In A Textbook – Banning and Censoring In 1961 – Past Daily Reference Room
By 1961, the debate over school textbooks had become one of the most visible fronts in America’s larger Cold War cultural conflict. What might once have been viewed as routine decisions by educators over curriculum had become deeply political questions. Across the country, local school boards, parent organizations, civic groups,