Category Day in history

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Elian? – January 21, 2000

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – Late Edition – January 21, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A spillover from the insane 90’s, this 21st day of January in 2000. Not the…

Today’s Young Woman – 1953 – A Lecture By Millicent Carey McIntosh – Past Daily Reference Room

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A View From The Abyss – January 16, 1966

Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio – Voices In The Headlines – January 16, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection No doubt about it, on this January 16th in 1966 we were slipping further and…

With Pots Of Tar And Bags Of Feather – January 15, 1999

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – January 15, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Gearing up for a second day of political rock-throwing in the Impeachment trial of President Clinton, this January…

Here Comes The Great Society – LBJ’s State Of The Union – January 8. 1964

Click on the link here for Audio Player – President Johnson – State of the Union Address – January 8, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This day fifty years ago, President Johnson declared War on Poverty in his first…

Qu’est-ce que c’est . . . Ethics? – January 6, 1997

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – January 6, 1997 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Starting off the first full week of the new year in 1997 with the roller-coaster ride known as…

The World And Welcome To It – December 27, 1997

Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC World Service – Newshour – December 27, 1997 In retrospect, 1997 was a year pretty much like every other year. But at the time, 1997 seemed just a bit more…

Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa – In Concert From Buffalo – 1974 – Happy Birthday Frank! (December 21, 1940) – Past Daily Backstage Weekend

  Click on the link here for Audio Player – Frank Zappa – In Concert at Buffalo New York – November 15, 1974 Today, it just so happens, would have been Frank Zappa’s seventy-third birthday. Born on December 21st in…

December 17, 1981 – Solidarity: Warsaw Hardball

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”11513″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”CBS Radio Hourly News – December 17, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] December 17, 1981: The world was taking a wait-and-see with the goings-on in Poland. Fears of mass demonstrations on the anniversary…