Clifford Clinton Commentaries – Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts – August 20, 1940 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Everyone who has seen the legendary film Chinatown often wonders if L.A. was really such a corrupt place in the 1920’s and 30’s as it was portrayed in the movie.
August 4, 1968 – GOP Convention ’68 Preview – CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1968 was a year of surprises – nothing was as it seemed. The year started with a protracted, and in fact escalating War in Vietnam; a Tet Offensive. A growing tide against the war
June 29, 1976 – CBS Radio News + Spectrum – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 29, 1976 – With days away from America celebrating the Bicentennial, there was other news capturing the worlds attention. A hostage situation taking place at Uganda’s Entebee airport had reached a stalemate. Hostages were
Watergate – Week 4 – NBC News -John Chancellor – August 3, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Watergate – the event that captured the attention of the country, if not the world, for one steamy summer in Washington D.C. The Watergate Hearings. The daily ritual of sitting down,
April 11, 1948 – Clifton Utley Commentary – Postwar Europe – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Strange to think, we were less than three years out of one World War and we were in danger of getting involved in another one. This one was over hearts and minds, of sorts.
Cedric Foster Commentary – Foreign Policy under Eisenhower – January 30, 1957 – MBS – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Foreign Policy has always been a sticky situation for the U.S. – different approaches have yielded different results. During the Eisenhower years it was a favored approach by the President
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America United: What About 1950? – December 18, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1950? America; coming to the end of a turbulent decade in December of 1949. We openly wondered what was in store for us in the new decade? What were we going to be doing?
Dissent In America – The Open Mind – April 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Dissent in America. What was going on, what was it up to, who was dissenting, how were they dissenting? Was dissent real, or was it a knee-jerk/feel-good exercise that lasted only a few minutes
Suarez – Saludos En La Nieve – from the album Horrible (1995) – FAN Discos (Argentina) – Suarez was one of the most interesting and engaging bands to come out of Buenos Aires in the 1990s. Pity they weren’t discovered this side of the border, and for the most part,
