When the news began that morning, and updated reports concerning the shootings at a movie theater in Aurora Colorado throughout the day, I was reminded at the time of how all-too-familiar it seemed. How it has repeated over and over throughout the years. How violence in America, senseless acts of
The question of our Civil Liberties has been a topic of discussion and speculation going on for decades. However, at no other time has it been such an issue as it is now. With laws twisted and perverted, and those interpreting the law ranging from the corrupt to the merely
– Eyewitness To History – School Desegregation In New Orleans – December 2, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – School Desegregation, even 6 years after the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, schools were loathed to follow the ruling, balking at the notion of integrating
KYA – San Francisco – November 26, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection You will never get tired of calling yourself the Crown Prince of Poor Timing – it’s in your genes, can’t get rid of them – can’t ask them nicely to fuck off – can’t go out and
Call Of The Range – Cliffie Stone With The Plainsmen – CBS Radio/KNX Los Angeles – October 21, 1946- Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Since we’re still in Holiday Mode and most likely working on Thanksgiving leftovers, here is something you absolutely don’t hear anymore. Not unless you already know
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– American Poets – Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow – August 5, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Since it’s one of those rainy nights in L.A. where all you want to do is tune out and not be bludgeoned by news, I ran across this radio program of influential American
Battle of Gettysburg 75th Memorial – July 1, 1938 July 1st of this year marked the 162nd anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, the battle that signaled a turn in the Civil War. Obviously, no recordings or on-the-spot news reports from that period exist, but a 75th anniversary observance of
November 12, 1949 – Voices and Events- NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The week ending November 12, 1949 – Seventy-six years ago – an election was held, the coal strike was settled and in 1949 it was still Armistice Day. Election night 1949 – the off-year election
– NBC Radio – Launch of Gemini 12 – November 11, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Gemini 12 was the last of the Gemini space flights and the 18th manned American spaceflight since the X-15 spaceflights until Apollo 7 made its debut almost 2 years later. Its objective
