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NPR – Hourly News – June 28, 2007 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! June 28, 2007 – A day where living on the Edge was starting to catch up to people. From news that most city streets were in a state of bad disrepair and, in...
May 28, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 28, 1994 – Busy news day from The White House, from North Korea, from China and all points in between. Starting with the brewing Choppergate scandal hitting the White House this morning. The brouhaha over...
May 6, 1989 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 6, 1989 – Busy day, even for a Saturday in 1989. Starting with the weather. Tornados and thunderstorms were busy reeking havoc throughout the South. At least 16 people were reported dead as the result...
Nikolai Lopatnikoff – Divertimento For Orch. op. 34 – Nicolai Sokoloff, cond. The La Jolla Musical Arts Festival Orchestra – 1952 – Concert Hall Society Recording – Limited Edition – G-4 – Slight change of pace this weekend. Rather than play a concert or radio broadcast session, I thought I...
March 30, 1951 – CBS Radio: Hear It Now with Edward R. Murrow – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 30, 1951 – What this week sounded like in 1951, and a look at Hollywood at a crossroads. A week loaded with drama – from hearings on Organized Crime to...
Anastasio Somoza on Meet The Press – April 16, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Anastasio “Tachito” Somoza DeBayle; 5 December 1925 – 17 September 1980) was a Nicaraguan dictator and officially the President of Nicaragua from 1 May 1967 to 1 May 1972 and from 1 December 1974...
February 22, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 22, 1978 – Day 79 of the nationwide Coal Strike and negotiations were dragging on. More talks were scheduled in Washington, but Labor Department Officials indicated that labor and management were...
January 8,1968 – Newsfront – Eastern Educational Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 8, 1968 – Anticipation of a year of protests. The year was starting off with warnings from Civil Rights leaders that Summer of 1968 was going to be potentially just as hot as summers past,...
January 7, 1997 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 7, 1997 – Another busy January on Capitol Hill. The day started with a pending vote on a second term as House Speaker for Newt Gingrich. He made his case, now it was waiting for...
January 3, 2006 – NPR Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 3, 2006 – The Sago Mine disaster was a coal mine explosion on January 2, 2006, at the Sago Mine in Sago, West Virginia, near the Upshur County seat of Buckhannon. The blast and collapse trapped...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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