Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Meet The Press – Robert F. Kennedy – March 17, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Certainly, 1968 ended a lot differently than it started out. Since it was an election year, speculation was rife as to what
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio: Youth Wants To Know – Guest: Governor Allan Shivers (D-Tx) – April 28, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection At first glance, the year 1954 doesn’t seem like that momentous a period in World history. The Cold War and
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio: James Meredith is Guest on Meet The Press – June 26, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection James Meredith, for those of you a bit fuzzy on figures in the Civil Rights Movement, was the first black student to
Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio – Issues and Answers – Roy Wilkins – Interviewed by Howard K. Smith – April 26, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Contrary to what is often said in some circles as a time when such landmark legislation as
Click on the link here for Audio Player – PRI/BBC – The World – March 28, 1996 – WGBH, Boston Further evidence there are no dull days in history, no matter when – March 28th in 1996 was overflowing with its fair share of uncertainty and mayhem. Starting with revelations
Click on the link here for Audio Player- CBS World News Roundup – March 21, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1985 began with an Angry commemoration – March 21st 1985 marked the 25th anniversary of the massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa where 69 Blacks
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – February 28, 1997 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1997 (also a Friday) had much to do with the subject of Teen smoking. A new law, starting this day, was slated to
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Youth Wants To Know – Guest: Eric Johnstone – February 23, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Maybe it’s always been that way – gripped by upheaval – seized by fear – living under an atomic cloud of uncertainty. Certainly sounds
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio (Monitor) – Meet The Press – Julian Bond – January 30, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Anyone thinking the Civil Rights movement culminated with the March on Washington in 1963, and racial harmony instantly happened shortly after has
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBC Radio – Cesar Chavez: The California Grape Boycott – 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection One of those names certainly synonymous with political and human rights movements of the 1960s, I was reminded that 2015 will mark the 50th year
